Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Re:Build Manufacturing is an advanced end-to-end manufacturing platform focused on revitalizing America’s manufacturing base and developing products across critical industrial verticals. The Principal Product Manager will lead execution, discovery, roadmap development, prototyping, and delivery for Reflow, an AI-powered platform for hardware product development.
Responsibilities
- Owning product execution end to end, from talking to hardware engineers, to writing specs and PRDs, to working daily with engineering to ship
- Running discovery across our early adopter program, which spans several dozen internal and external companies, getting into the real workflows of hardware program execution and turning them into product
- Being the domain voice in the room, able to talk credibly with an EE, a mechanical lead, or a program manager about their actual pain and earn their trust in the first conversation
- Driving the roadmap and hitting dates by setting realistic timelines, communicating them clearly, and delivering against them consistently
- Writing clearly and concisely across specs, updates, and customer-facing material, because writing is how product gets built here
- Prototyping and demoing, putting things in front of users early, running the demo yourself, and iterating on what you learn
Skills
- Direct experience running hardware program execution, whether as an NPI or hardware program manager, a hardware, systems, or EE lead who ran programs, or a PM embedded deep in hardware development
- Demonstrated 0-to-1 experience taking a new product from a blank page to something real and shipped, whether hardware or software
- High output and a bias to action, with a track record of shipping
- Excellent written communication that is clear, concise, and structured, with the ability to turn a messy problem into a one-page spec anyone can act on
- Deadline discipline: you set commitments, keep them, and flag slippage early
- Deep subject-matter credibility with hardware engineers and program teams
- Comfort using AI tools to accelerate your own work
- Experience building software for engineers or manufacturing (PLM, MES, EDA, ALM, dev tools, or similar)
- Hands-on experience building AI or LLM-powered products
- Prior early-stage, 0-to-1 startup experience
- Technical enough to prototype (scripting or vibe-coding a wireframe)
- Deep fluency with the hardware NPI lifecycle: phase-gate reviews (EVT/DVT/PVT), cross-team dependencies, engineering changes (ECRs/ECOs), and BOM/PLM workflows
- Location: Remote-first, with preference for candidates in Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, or other cities with Re:Build offices
Benefits
- The opportunity to build purpose-built tooling for an entire industry that has never had it
- Direct exposure to hundreds of real hardware projects annually through Re:Build’s engineering and manufacturing companies
- Hands-on work with advanced AI technologies solving novel technical challenges
- Backed by Re:Build while operating with startup independence
- Full health/dental/vision
- Bonus program
- Generous 401K
- Paid time off
- Annual learning stipend
- Participation in Re:Build’s LTIP equity program
- Opportunity for founder equity in potential spin-out
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Annual incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives, subject to Company plans
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, and other benefits
- Potential equity stake under independent spinout scenario
- Every employee of Re:Build will share ownership in the company and will share in the financial rewards of the success we achieve together, at all levels of the company!
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