Engineering Project Manager (EPM), Color Design (Cupertino)

A globally leading technology company is looking for a

Engineering Project Manager (EPM), Color Design

to join its innovative SoftGoods Engineering team, pioneering the use of textiles, silicone, soft polymers, and magnets in next-generation products. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with the Color Design team to lead color development across multiple materials and product lines—from concept through production. You’ll manage a diverse portfolio of products, balancing high SKU counts and fast-paced launch cycles. This is an exciting opportunity to bring precision, creativity, and technical excellence to the world of soft-material innovation—we invite you to apply!

Job Responsibilities:

• Enable team success by crafting and monitoring a streamlined development plan, managing critical path, and driving timely issue resolution. • Lead team meetings, document action items, drive follow-up, and be accountable for communicating development and schedule status to senior management. • Coordinate with Product Design, Industrial Design (ID), Operations, Reliability and other key cross functional teams. • Understand technical issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key partners and facilitating problem solving and decision-making. • Be empowered to build great relationships across high-energy teams • Work closely with material suppliers and manufacturing partners. • The role will require international travel to support material vendors in Asia and Europe.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Material Science, Industrial or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent • At least 5 years of experience managing multiple programs in the consumer product space or a related field • You have exceptional experience with developing materials in color • Strong experience fostering relationships with manufacturing suppliers and driving materials to development builds at scale • Experience working closely with product design and other cross functional teams to drive closure of technical issues and communicate risk • You are someone who is analytical, professionally assertive, and exhibits excellent attention to detail • Strong verbal & written communication and executive level presentation skills • You exhibit a deeply curious mindset about new ideas

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a practicing engineer or related product development role prior to becoming a project manager • Experience working with industrial designers or other similarly creative product developers • Experience working with soft goods materials and processes (synthetics, textiles, coatings/films) • Experience traveling internationally to work closely with suppliers • Experience managing development schedules, working with Industrial Design and Product Design teams to release designs to vendors on time • Experience collaborating and facilitating communication across engineering, operations, marketing, and external partners to meet very aggressive cost, schedule, and quality goals • Understanding of different coloration methods (package dyeing, pigment dyeing, etc.) • Exceptional understanding of soft goods assembly process (bonding, cutting, stitching).

Type:

Contract Duration:

7 months (with extension possible) Work Location:

Cupertino, CA (on-site) Pay range:

$ 64.00 - $ 79.00 (DOE)