Summary
Our Client is looking for a Technical Program Manager in Redmond to document and track complex cross-functional operations.
Responsibilities
- Project management: Document and track complex cross-functional operations; maintain open action items and follow up with owners to drive closure. Identify and escalate issues to unblock research and operational progress.
- Procurement operations: Research suppliers, onboard suppliers, obtain quotes, track orders and follow up with vendors, maintain detailed tracking of complex BOMs or equipment purchasing in partnership with technical owners and the LabManager.
- Contracts: Draft, route, and track NDAs, SOWs, and related agreements with legal, researchers, and vendors.
- Budgeting: Track budgets, perform budget reconciliation, and match POs to budget lines.
- Team & travel operations: Support travel planning, onsite vendor visit planning, and team event planning.
Required Skills
- 5+ years in project management or research operations.
- Able to operate and communicate across highly technical domains (hardware engineering, chemistry, physics, AI), external partners, and crossfunctional partners (legal, operations, management)
- Experience with complex procurement workflows: supplier research, quoting, purchase requests, order tracking, vendor follow-up.
- Understanding of contracts (NDAs, SOWs).
- Experience budget tracking, reconciliation, and PO-to-budget matching.
- Highly organized, able to manage multiple parallel workstreams and follow up independently.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, documentation, and status reporting.
Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with procurement / contracting tools.
- Experience supporting hardware engineering (or related) research teams
- Experience planning travel, vendor site visits, or team events
Technical Program Manager IV in redmond at Unknown Company
This position is listed as contract and onsite.