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They act as the primary administrative owner of the program, translating customer needs and contractual commitments into coordinated internal execution.\r\nThe Program Manager ensures the overall program stays organized, predictable, and aligned to customer expectations.\r\nWhat You'll Do Serve as the primary customer facing point of contact for program level execution, schedules, and status\r\nMaintain the program plan, including milestones, dependencies, and delivery commitments via Jira and other program management tools\r\nTrack contractual requirements, customer deliverables, and acceptance criteria across projects by working with leadership, finance and other stakeholders\r\nAssist coordinating schedules and dependencies across PMs, Lead Engineers, Engineering, Ops, and external partners.\r\nRun administrative program cadences including customer status calls, internal program reviews, and leadership updates (as necessary)\r\nIdentify, track, and escalate program-level risks, changes, and issues impacting customer commitments via cross-functional communication\r\nPrepare and distribute customer-facing materials such as status reports, timelines, and delivery updates.\r\nSupport updating Jira and iSOW\r\nRequirements\r\nDeep understanding of a technical product design life cycle & problem solving processes\r\nAbility to apply technical knowledge to drive decision making, i.e. trade-off discussions and program strategy\r\nHave the ability to work cross-functionally between product, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain personnel.\r\nDemonstrated experience creating and implementing program management tools for communication, scheduling, risk management, resource planning, and production planning, etc.\r\nHave outstanding verbal and written communication skills\r\nB.S. degree or higher in an engineering or science discipline\r\nBonus\r\nExperience in start-up environments\r\nVatn is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply. 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