{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"25ae1dece4e63e79451707e8","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/25ae1dece4e63e79451707e8","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/25ae1dece4e63e79451707e8","title":"Staff Technical Program Manager","description":"Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world's most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.\n\nJoin us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.\n\nPurpose\n\nMachine Development operates at the intersection of complex hardware, software, manufacturing, and operations, where successful execution depends on many teams moving together against shared technical and business outcomes. The Staff Technical Program Manager exists to create the clarity, structure, and operating discipline needed to make that happen.\n\nThis role drives the integrated execution of Machine Development programs by translating complex and often ambiguous objectives into clear plans, priorities, ownership, milestones, and decisions. The Staff TPM connects work across functions, ensures risks and issues are surfaced and resolved early, and gives teams and leaders the visibility needed to understand performance and make informed tradeoffs.\n\nSuccess in this role means Machine Development executes more predictably, problems are identified and closed faster, cross-functional teams stay aligned, and the processes and operating systems supporting execution become increasingly scalable and effective over time.\n\nThe Role\nOwn integrated program schedules, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, and high-level development & execution plans.\nIdentify and actively manage program risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.\nBuild and continuously improve scalable business processes, operating cadences, tools, and program controls.\nDrive cross-functional execution including triage and coordination such as change requests.\nDrive action-item ownership, escalation, decision-making, and closure.\nEnable successful change and configuration management.\nProvide clear program status, performance, tradeoffs, and recovery plans to stakeholders and leadership.\nSupport coordination of technical and operational readiness for major releases, builds, qualifications, and deployments.\nLead ad hoc, high-priority initiatives that require additional structure, coordination, or cross-functional execution.\nBasic Qualifications\nAbility to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls\nBachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field.\n6+ years of technical program, engineering, manufacturing, or product development experience.\nDemonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional technical programs.\nStrong program planning, scheduling, risk management, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to translate ambiguous technical problems into clear plans, owners, milestones, and decisions.\nExceptional written and verbal communication with technical teams and senior leadership.\nAbility to work effectively in a fast-paced hardware development and manufacturing environment.\nAbility to work additional hours as required by the business.\nAbility to spend time in laboratory, manufacturing, and production environments as required.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with complex capital equipment, industrial automation, additive manufacturing, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing.\nExperience managing reliability, qualification, commissioning, or production-readiness programs.\nExperience with engineering change control, RCCA, configuration management, and product lifecycle processes.\nWorking knowledge of Jira, PLM, ERP, MES, requirements management, and program-management tools.\nDemonstrated ability to establish new processes and operating systems in rapidly evolving organizations.\nWork Environment\nOnsite\n\nWhat We Offer:\n\nHolistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.\nWellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.\nComprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.\nInvestment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.\nCollaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint.\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nDivergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.\nEEO Poster\n\nIn order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected.\n\nE-Verify: Right to Work\nOur company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate's eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.\nEligibility to Work Poster (English) | Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish)\n\nLos Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)\nPursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\n\nNo agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.","company":"Divergent","rawCompany":"divergent","city":"Long Beach","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T08:29:43.577Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"333248","title":"All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing","slug":"all-other-industrial-machinery-manufacturing"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"336110","title":"Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing","slug":"automobile-and-light-duty-motor-vehicle-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Staff Technical Program Manager","description":"Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world's most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.\n\nJoin us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.\n\nPurpose\n\nMachine Development operates at the intersection of complex hardware, software, manufacturing, and operations, where successful execution depends on many teams moving together against shared technical and business outcomes. The Staff Technical Program Manager exists to create the clarity, structure, and operating discipline needed to make that happen.\n\nThis role drives the integrated execution of Machine Development programs by translating complex and often ambiguous objectives into clear plans, priorities, ownership, milestones, and decisions. The Staff TPM connects work across functions, ensures risks and issues are surfaced and resolved early, and gives teams and leaders the visibility needed to understand performance and make informed tradeoffs.\n\nSuccess in this role means Machine Development executes more predictably, problems are identified and closed faster, cross-functional teams stay aligned, and the processes and operating systems supporting execution become increasingly scalable and effective over time.\n\nThe Role\nOwn integrated program schedules, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, and high-level development & execution plans.\nIdentify and actively manage program risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.\nBuild and continuously improve scalable business processes, operating cadences, tools, and program controls.\nDrive cross-functional execution including triage and coordination such as change requests.\nDrive action-item ownership, escalation, decision-making, and closure.\nEnable successful change and configuration management.\nProvide clear program status, performance, tradeoffs, and recovery plans to stakeholders and leadership.\nSupport coordination of technical and operational readiness for major releases, builds, qualifications, and deployments.\nLead ad hoc, high-priority initiatives that require additional structure, coordination, or cross-functional execution.\nBasic Qualifications\nAbility to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls\nBachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field.\n6+ years of technical program, engineering, manufacturing, or product development experience.\nDemonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional technical programs.\nStrong program planning, scheduling, risk management, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to translate ambiguous technical problems into clear plans, owners, milestones, and decisions.\nExceptional written and verbal communication with technical teams and senior leadership.\nAbility to work effectively in a fast-paced hardware development and manufacturing environment.\nAbility to work additional hours as required by the business.\nAbility to spend time in laboratory, manufacturing, and production environments as required.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with complex capital equipment, industrial automation, additive manufacturing, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing.\nExperience managing reliability, qualification, commissioning, or production-readiness programs.\nExperience with engineering change control, RCCA, configuration management, and product lifecycle processes.\nWorking knowledge of Jira, PLM, ERP, MES, requirements management, and program-management tools.\nDemonstrated ability to establish new processes and operating systems in rapidly evolving organizations.\nWork Environment\nOnsite\n\nWhat We Offer:\n\nHolistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.\nWellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.\nComprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.\nInvestment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.\nCollaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint.\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nDivergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.\nEEO Poster\n\nIn order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected.\n\nE-Verify: Right to Work\nOur company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate's eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.\nEligibility to Work Poster (English) | Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish)\n\nLos Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)\nPursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\n\nNo agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.","datePosted":"2026-09-12T08:29:43.577Z","dateModified":"2026-09-12T08:29:43.577Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Divergent","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Long Beach","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"25ae1dece4e63e79451707e8"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/25ae1dece4e63e79451707e8"}}