Senior Engineering Program Manager, Bevi
Hardware
Water dispenser for office and commercial spaces
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Water dispenser for office and commercial spaces
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
Bevi is on a mission to unbottle the future.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of work experience (2+ as an engineering program manager)
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (ME, EE, Manufacturing, or CS preferred)
- Strong technical intuition across multiple development and manufacturing engineering disciplines
- A track record of successfully launching hardware products in a technical program management or project management function, preferably within a rapidly growing startup
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to effectively manage a diverse, interdisciplinary team of stakeholders
- A bias towards action and ability to drive critical decisions to resolution
- Innate ability to breakdown large problems, dive deep, and effectively summarize for others
- Organizational skills and a keen sense of prioritization
- Experience with program management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Asana, Instagantt, MS Project
What the job involves
- Bevi is looking for a Senior Engineering Program Manager to drive critical projects in conjunction with our engineering and product development groups.
- Reporting to the Director of Program Management, the Senior Engineering Program Manager will be a project lead and creative problem solver that works with cross-functional teams from ideation and requirements gathering, through engineering execution to launch and beyond.
- They will provide structure to the project efforts, transparency across the organization, and act as a proxy for leadership during the day to day execution of a program
- Drive programs to be on-time, on-spec, and on-budget
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in HW engineering, SW engineering, Beverage development, supply chain, sustaining engineering, manufacturing, and quality to organize programs
- Create and manage program schedules that contain key deliverables and milestones to ensure project leaders are properly aligned
- Document decisions made and track major tasks until completion
- Develop and maintain comprehensive program budgets and product COGS estimates
- Oversee test plan development (owned by engineering and quality teams) to ensure product requirements are comprehensively validated
- Work closely with our Supply Chain team and our Contract Manufacturing (CM) partners to ensure a smooth transition from design to manufacturing
- Deliver exceptional results against program team goals and clearly communicate to the broader management team
- Be a thought partner to all groups – leverage creativity and engineering best practices to deliver innovative ideas and solutions
- Manage risks so development resources are focused on the most important aspects of the program at all times
- Facilitate cross-functional trade-off discussions and decision making
- Analyze program risks and communicate risks to key stakeholders
- Evaluate program scope to ensure no elements fall between the cracks
- Prioritize your work and your team’s work across programs to be most effective
- Facilitate communications across the business
- Lead and direct program meetings, keeping meetings efficient and productive
- Motivate program teams to deliver their best work
- Collect and communicate action items, problems, and blockers from program teams and resolve disagreements by fostering open communication
- Coordinate between departments to identify interdependencies within projects at all stages of program lifecycle
- Own the project. Be responsible and do whatever it takes to ensure team success – remove roadblocks and wear many hats
- Manage key program documents so that all stakeholders have clear and easy access to critical information regarding programs
- Identify gaps in resourcing and recommend plans to close
Our take
Americans buy billions of water bottles per year, the manufacture of which uses millions of barrels of crude oil. This alone causes significant damage to the environment, before even considering the carbon impact of delivery or the plastic waste produced. Bevi hopes to change this, with its smart beverage-dispensing machine that only requires a tap water source to function.
Bevi’s dispensers allow smartphone users to customize their drinks, check nutrition information and track the environmental impact of their usage. With the ability to carbonate beverages as well as flavor them with natural essences, and even some caffeine and electrolytes if one wishes, Bevi has created a versatile hydration system that caters to the modern consumer on both eco-conscious and personal taste levels.
This simple and effective hydration system has become popular across industries, with over 4000 companies including Volkswagen, Netflix and Google making use of Bevi machines. The company, though having to fight through some self-admittedly "frightening" times, has raised significant funding that will support its rapid growth and expansion into new verticals and products.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2022
$70m
SERIES D
Jan 2019
$35.5m
SERIES C
Total funding: $130.2m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer
- 401(k) with company match, and environmentally responsible investment options
- Flexible PTO plus 9 company holidays, and additional paid days for sick leave, etc (including sustainability or social justice volunteer events)
- Generous fully paid parental leave for both birth parents and non-birth parents
- Fully employer paid disability and life insurances
- Wellness and fitness reimbursements
- Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs
- Onsite snacks and (of course) unlimited Bevi ... plus composting and terracycling, too
- Happy hours, pancake breakfasts, Hero awards - and more!
Company HQ
Medford Street / The Neck, Boston, MA
Leadership
Eliza Becton
(VP of Product)Eliza's background is in user-experience design at various startups, with end-to-end experiences from ideation to market research to prototyping. Eliza graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Masters in Industrial Design, and from Yale University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.
Frank Lee
(Co-Founder)Frank has an MBA from MIT and bachelors in chemical engineering. They began their career at P&G in operations and then brand management. Frank went on to work at the agricultural technology start-up Driptech before co-founding Bevi.
Sean Grundy
(CEO)Previously, Sean has had 3 years experience managing environmental projects at Rare. They attended MIT Sloan School of Management for their MBA and Princeton for their undergraduate degree.
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