Head of Hardware Manufacturing

ATOMS Careers page

$182K — $214K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in scaling hardware production operations from inception to mass volume.
  • Background in a mature manufacturing organization, equipped to enhance existing frameworks.
  • Experience in establishing new production sites while maintaining output at current facilities.
  • Expertise in technician recruitment, training, and development to optimize operational throughput.
  • Solid foundation in manufacturing engineering principles, including lean methodologies.
  • Demonstrated leadership in managing quality assurance functions under production pressures.
  • Extensive people management experience, specifically in multi-shift production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end retrofit and box build operations while ensuring process efficiency and quality control.
  • Oversee the establishment of production at new sites, ensuring effective layout and material flow.
  • Develop a robust technician organization through hiring strategies, training programs, and shift planning.
  • Build and maintain a leadership layer to empower team performance and accountability.
  • Implement an independent quality function to monitor production against standards and capture defects.
  • Collaborate with Supply Chain and engineering to ensure that production lines operate without delays due to incomplete kits.
  • Ensure seamless transition of new designs into production.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings account options.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Equity ownership opportunities.
  • Unlimited flexible time off, in addition to sick time and paid holidays.
  • Paid parental leave for new parents.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefit plan.
  • Regular team lunches in the office to foster collaboration.
Full Job Description
What you'll do

  • End-to-end retrofit and box build operations: process, technicians, tooling, throughput, and the release gates that let a vehicle out the door
  • Standing up production at two new locations while an existing one continues to run, including layout, material flow, and station design
  • The technician organization: hiring pace, training program, certification and sign-off criteria, trainer capacity, and shift structure as the operation moves toward extended and weekend coverage
  • Building the leadership layer beneath you
  • A quality function that gates production independently of build, with first-pass yield, defect capture, and closed-loop feedback to engineering
  • Partnership with Supply Chain so no vehicle enters the line without a complete kit, and with hardware and NPI engineering as new designs transfer into production


What we're looking for
  • Track record taking a hardware production operation from zero or near-zero to meaningful volume, where you personally designed the line rather than inherited it
  • Experience in a larger, mature manufacturing organization, so you know what good looks like at scale and can build toward it rather than reinventing it
  • Demonstrated multi-site experience: standing up new production locations while existing sites keep producing
  • Deep capability in technician hiring and training: you have built ramp programs, certification criteria, and trainer structures, and you understand that trained labor is the real constraint on throughput
  • Strong manufacturing engineering foundation: time studies, line balancing, takt and cycle analysis, station and tooling design, work instructions, lean and continuous improvement
  • Quality leadership: you have run an independent quality gate and held it under schedule pressure
  • Proven people leadership at scale: hired and led managers, engineers, and technician leads
  • Comfortable being hands-on on the floor and rigorous in the data
  • 10-plus years in manufacturing operations, including leadership of a multi-shift production organization


What else you need to know

This role is based in our San Francisco office. Atoms is a company driven by invention and continuous change - we are constantly reimagining our industries, building new products, and refining how we operate. We do our best work together. That's why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

The base salary range for this role is $182,000 - $214,000 per year.

Actual compensation will be determined on an individual basis and may vary depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.

Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees):
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account / Health Savings Account Options
  • 401(k)
  • Equity
  • Sick Time, Unlimited Flexible Time Off, and Paid Holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit Plan
  • Team lunch in our SoMa office every Tuesday and Thursday

Benefits are subject to change at the company's discretion.
Atoms accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

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