At FreeWire we fundamentally change the way businesses and utilities electrify. We build battery-based energy storage systems that provide clean and quiet power anywhere it’s needed, reducing the cost and accelerating deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. FreeWire’s solutions are evolving from providing ultrafast EV charging services to a full suite of energy services to accelerate sustainable electrification and provide resiliency to customers and a distributed power source to utilities. FreeWire has secured major strategic investors from Fortune 100 companies and serves leading corporate, utility, and retail customers. The feedback on the Boost Charger, FreeWire’s DC fast charger, has been overwhelmingly positive as we electrify locations that would have been too expensive to power on using conventional charging solutions. Utilities are releasing RFPs with requests for battery backed solutions, their regulatory teams are including our technology as eligible for incentives, and they are seeking cost effective solutions as they electrify their fleets and provide utility owned charging solutions for the public. FreeWire has deployed battery-integrated chargers with Fortune 100 companies, commercial customers, fleets, retail locations, and gas stations. In addition to its partnership with bp pulse, FreeWire and ampm, a bp subsidiary and convenience store chain with over 1,000 locations, have already deployed multiple public charging stations in the U.S. FreeWire’s regulatory affairs and policy team keeps customers up to date on federal, state, and utility incentive opportunities, which in some cases cover up to 80% of the cost of the charging station, and the company recently announced that the Boost Charger is Buy America compliant. Learn more at www.freewiretech.com and follow us @FreeWireTech. Program Management Director Newark, CA Responsibilities: • Lead cross-functional teams to develop and introduce products on schedule based on product specifications. • Manage schedules and tasks details with cross-functional teams to communicate updates, track progress, and ensure that the program is on track to meet all project milestones. • Regularly communicate expectations to team leads, individual contributors, and key stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion. Anticipate future needs and marshal resources from other organizations to achieve program objectives to meet on-time and budget objectives. • Provide technical leadership to team members to achieve program goals. • Anticipate, identify, evaluate, escalate, and communicate program issues and risks to stakeholders and senior management. Define risk mitigation strategies and facilitate appropriate solutions. • Facilitate bill of material (BOM) review meetings from early first prototype stage and throughout each stage of product development up to production. • Provide engineering and business process expertise to program stakeholders to solve significantly complex programs/issues. • Establish and monitor program level KPIs (i.e. value, quality, cost, schedule, risk) and facilitate regular project and program meetings, developing and implementing processes and tools to identify and mitigate risks, monitor schedules, budgets, resources, and related metrics. • Determine the frequency and content of status reports from project teams. Monitor, analyze, and solve problems, and report key metrics and status of the active product development programs/projects. • Build and maintain effective working relationships with executives and other functional leaders. Leverage relationships to influence positive and collaborative outcomes, without official authority. • All other duties as assigned Requirements: • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, or a related discipline). Advanced degree (Engineering and/or Business) preferred. • 15+ years of experience in program, project, and operations management through product lifecycle (PLC) processes. • Strong cross-functional team management, strong interpersonal skills, and adaptive communication style. • Strong Project Management skills in developing schedules and tracking to milestones. • Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills. • Incredible degree of patience and ability to think clearly and strategically in ambiguous situations. • Results oriented, resourceful, comfortable working under tight deadlines with a demanding set of internal stakeholders and senior executives. Preferred: • Knowledge of EV technology and its applications is a plus. Please note that this job description is not exhaustive and may be subject to changes or amendments to meet the evolving needs of the company. Thus, this position may include responsibilities or duties not specifically stated, but which may be deemed necessary. FreeWire offers competitive benefits, including: • Health, Dental & Vision Insurance • Short- & Long-Term Disability Insurance • Life Insurance • Unlimited PTO • Dog Friendly We provide compensation packages that include base pay, benefits, and equity, and it is not typical for someone to be hired at the top end of the range for the role. Actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including location, skills, and experience level. At FreeWire Technologies, we offer fair and equal opportunities to all our candidates and team members regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual identity, national origin, citizenship, marital status, disability status, parental status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. FreeWire Technologies believes in hiring individuals only based on their qualifications and experiences that meet our business requirements to fill the positions.