Engineering Project Manager; EPM), Color Design

A globally leading technology company is looking for a Engineering Project Manager (EPM), Color Design to join its innovative Soft Goods 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 (), 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)