Senior Manager / Manager of Responsible Engineering, Divergent Technologies

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• Bachelor’s degree in, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• Minimum 8 years of experience in a relevant technical discipline
• Minimum 3 years of experience in technical leadership
• Demonstrated ability to lead team of mechanical engineers working cross functionally to deliver successful products
• Proven track record of leading complex projects from concept through production, focusing on high-performance materials and high-reliability applications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex, inputs to simple terms and find alignment across multifunctional stake holders
• Strong systems-thinking mindset—comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving structured clarity across technology and program boundaries
• Requires frequent standing, walking, and interaction across production and R&D work areas
• Requires frequent standing, walking, bending, reaching. May involve crouching, climbing, confined spaces, or work at heights
• May occasionally require extended or weekend hours to meet production deadlines
• Work is performed in an office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards
• For this role, we will consider candidates at levels M06-M07 as evaluated through our interview process

Desirable

• Divergent is seeking experienced and motivated leaders to support the next generation of world-leading vehicle design and advanced manufacturing
• This role will oversee an engineering team of 5+ held accountable to delivering complete products. You’ll be expected to grow this team over time to support the industry vertical your team is accountable for
• A Manager, Responsible Engineering A&D will build and mentor a team of engineers to build cutting edge vehicles and products
• Hands on mentorship and team building to foster accountability and ownership at the product level, and capability to give deep technical guidance for the growing team
• Collaborating successfully with peer leaders to realize positive outcomes across teams.  Accountability to the executive team to set and deliver outcomes for the business
• Set team priorities, track projects, and mentor engineers to achieve critical company milestones
• Develop and institutionalize a culture of accountability, extreme ownership, collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence
• Perform cross-functional technical review to ensure product capabilities meet requirements
• Identify and communicate capability gaps, risks, and dependencies between application and platform teams, and coordinate mitigation plans
• Growing the capabilities of the team, through training, mentorship, documentation and hiring
• Appropriate resource allocation, measuring capacity of the team against capacity
• Accountable for generating and measuring functional departmental goals, KPIs and responsibilities
• In order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position
• From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected