Project Manager (All Levels) at Motivo in Compton, CA

Summary: Motivo is looking for passionate Project and Product Managers across multiple experience levels to join our team. The role involves supporting and leading client-facing hardware development projects, requiring collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams and effective communication of project status and objectives. Responsibilities: - Support and/or lead client-facing hardware development projects from initiation to completion - Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, software, and industrial design teams - Translate client needs into clear technical objectives, schedules, and deliverables - Manage project plans, timelines, budgets, and resources in a dynamic environment - Communicate project status, risks, and next steps to internal teams and clients - Help resolve technical, schedule, and interpersonal conflicts with a calm, solutions-oriented approach - Balance scope, cost, schedule, and performance tradeoffs - Thrive in environments with evolving client needs and figure-it-out requirements Required Qualifications: - Comfort operating in ambiguity - Strong communication skills - Ability to balance technical, schedule, and business constraints while driving projects forward - Support and/or lead client-facing hardware development projects from initiation to completion - Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, software, and industrial design teams - Translate client needs into clear technical objectives, schedules, and deliverables - Manage project plans, timelines, budgets, and resources in a dynamic environment - Communicate project status, risks, and next steps to internal teams and clients - Help resolve technical, schedule, and interpersonal conflicts with a calm, solutions-oriented approach - Balance scope, cost, schedule, and performance tradeoffs - Thrive in environments with evolving client needs and figure-it-out requirements - Understanding of hardware product development and system integration across mechanical, electrical, software, and industrial design domains - Ability to apply agile methodologies to both hardware and software development - Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts clearly to engineers and clients - Experience managing technical risk, cost, schedule, and performance tradeoffs - Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with evolving scope - Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects - Experience working with tightly integrated multidisciplinary teams (professional or academic—Formula SAE, Solar Car, etc.) Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with embedded hardware and controls development (strong plus) Required Skills: Hardware product development, System integration, Agile methodologies Important Skills: Embedded hardware development, Project management Nice-to-Have Skills: Managing technical risk, Multidisciplinary teamwork, Comfort in ambiguity Benefits: High-quality insurance, 401(k) match, Generous vacation time, Monday–Thursday 4/10 workweek, Profit-sharing bonuses