Sr. Manufacturing Program Manager, Vertical Integration

The role

This person will establish programs by transforming strategic mandates into organized work-streams and plans. They will manage execution, stakeholders, and financial models to drive leadership decisions for vertical manufacturing integration.

What you will do

• Establish programs by transforming strategic mandates into organized work-streams, owners, milestones, and budgets.
• Convert strategy into decision-grade plans including requirements definition, options analysis, cost models, and sequenced recommendations.
• Drive work-streams to completion while managing schedule, budget, dependencies, and blockers.
• Coordinate internal functions and external partners and consultants.
• Scope engagements and hold external partners to budget and deadline.
• Build and own financial models including make-vs-buy, CapEx, breakeven, and unit economics.
• Synthesize work into executive-grade readouts to move leadership to a decision.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years leading cross-functional programs to executive decisions in manufacturing/operations, corporate strategy or BizOps at a hardware company, or management consulting with genuine industrial expo
• Demonstrated ownership of a complex, ambiguous effort driven from strategy through to an executable plan.
• Financial-modeling fluency: breakeven, CapEx, unit economics, and M&A literacy (EBITDA multiples).
• Executive communication: structured written synthesis and board-quality presentations.
• Vendor and consultant management, scoping and holding external partners to budget and deadline.
• Comfort operating without a playbook, at startup pace, with direct executive exposure.

Nice to have

• Prior make-vs-buy, re-shoring, capacity-expansion, or M&A-evaluation experience.
• Working literacy across manufacturing processes (machining, sheet metal, finishing, casting).
• Experience standing up a shop, plant, or lab from scratch.
• Robotics or precision-hardware background.
• PMP or equivalent
• Experience working with Long Island/NY-metro manufacturing organizations.

Benefits

• Employee Stock Options
• paid time off
• medical/dental/vision insurance
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• 401(k)

About the company

Standard Bots is developing the next generation of industrial robots—hardware that is powerful, affordable, and built for scalability. They are vertically integrating core manufacturing processes including CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, finishing, and casting.