Sr. Technical Project Manager (Radar, Hardware, Embedded Systems, Web/Mobile Exp.)

About Us

Cherish develops intelligent radar-based sensor platforms that revolutionize health and safety monitoring wherever people live, work, or play. Our patented spatial computing technology works ambiently (through the air) without changing how people live and by prioritizing their privacy. We detect emergencies and health and safety risks to bring people timely help so they and their loved ones may live better with more independence, safety, and peace of mind.

We are an experienced and close-knit team of visionaries, business leaders, designers, technologists, creatives, operators, and health and wellness professionals. We are driven by how we care about the people we serve — our loved ones and yours. We show up with urgency daily to create and deliver solutions that will change people’s lives at scale in significant ways.

We think and act like a high-energy startup. At the same time, we punch well above our weight. Our sponsors and engineering, manufacturing, and channel partners include multiple Fortune 30 companies and globally leading consumer tech and healthcare organizations with whom we are strongly aligned to move at speed and scale.

Why Work Here?

We're high performers and lifelong learners who enjoy working together, operate with respect and autonomy, and are on a giant mission that matters at a company on a path to an IPO. What more could we ask for?

Senior Technical Project Manager

We are seeking a proactive, technically-savvy senior Program/Project Manager to facilitate the development of an innovative radar-based product. This is not a traditional project management role. Instead, we are looking for a strategic facilitator who understands the intricacies of putting together complex projects across hardware, embedded software, machine learning, and web/mobile applications. This person will serve as the critical link between teams, helping remove obstacles, initiating tasks in the proper sequence, and ensuring everything progresses smoothly.

Your Superpowers

You define yourself as the driving force behind seamless project execution, acting as the strategic anchor that connects every element of a complex product ecosystem. With a deep technical understanding across hardware, embedded systems, machine learning, and application development, you bring clarity to each team’s role, ensuring tasks begin at the right time and obstacles are cleared before they impact progress. Your proactive facilitation style allows you to foresee challenges and coordinate effectively with supply chain, manufacturing, and product owners, fostering a cohesive, aligned environment. By managing documentation, defining clear project plans, and enabling self-managed teams, you ensure that each piece

of the puzzle fits perfectly, paving the way for a successful and innovative product

launch.

The Job’s Responsibilities

As a collaborative subject-matter expert (SME) on a Team of SMEs, you will use your superpowers (listed above) to collaborate with others with their superpowers (you’ll work with others who excel at business strategy, product management, user experience and industrial design, electronics design and engineering, software architecture and development, supply chain and logistics management, finance and business modeling, SCRUM and program management, business development and contracting, sales, and marketing) in a supportive and safe team setting to achieve company goals.

You will be responsible for:

● Strategic Facilitation: Understand the overarching project structure and facilitate effective collaboration across hardware, software, application development, supply chain, and manufacturing teams. Ensure clarity on dependencies and timing to support smooth project flow.

● Develop Project Plans: Define roles, responsibilities, and deliverables across product teams for all initiatives. Establish a clear roadmap with milestones and manage alignment on objectives across teams.

● Documentation Management: Ensure necessary project documentation is created and maintained, including project plans, technical specifications, timelines, and relevant reports, to provide a clear, accessible reference for all stakeholders.

● Obstacle Removal: Identify and actively remove bottlenecks and obstacles that might impede progress. Act as a resource to teams, enabling them to remain focused on their objectives by removing friction points.

● Process Sequencing and Coordination: Coordinate task initiation and manage workflows to ensure each component starts and progresses at the right time. Create alignment on project milestones and priorities to support timely delivery.

● Supply Chain & Manufacturing Coordination: Work closely with supply chain and manufacturing teams to ensure production schedules, inventory, and resources align with project timelines. Proactively address any supply chain constraints or manufacturing challenges that could imp act delivery.

● Collaboration with Product Owners: Work closely with the product owners of each ecosystem element to develop a profound understanding of the technical needs and interdependencies across all product areas. Ensure cohesive integration and alignment between different components of the product ecosystem.

● Proactive Communication: Raise and communicate risks or dependencies promptly, anticipating issues before they arise to prevent project delays or misalignment.

● Cross-Functional Support: Partner closely with technical leads, design, product, and manufacturing teams to ensure all areas have the necessary resources, information, and timing to succeed. Maintain visibility into all areas of the project while enabling teams to work autonomously.

Required Qualifications

● Technical Understanding: Solid comprehension of hardware, embedded systems, machine learning, application development, and supply chain processes. Experience working closely with engineering, product, and manufacturing teams is essential.

● Problem Solver: Proven ability to identify, prioritize, and remove obstacles to keep projects moving efficiently.

● Self-Managed and Proactive: Able to independently manage responsibilities, ensuring tasks are aligned with project needs without heavy oversight. Possess a proactive mindset and a knack for anticipating needs before they arise.

● Excellent Communication Skills: Ability to clearly communicate project requirements, risks, and dependencies to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

Preferred Qualifications

● Experience in IoT or Radar-Based Products: Familiarity with the unique challenges and workflows associated with IoT or radar-based product development.

● Supply Chain & Manufacturing Knowledge: Experience working with supply chain and manufacturing teams to align production with project timelines.

● Agile Development: Proficiency in Agile methodologies, with the ability to adapt and support iterative development cycles and cross-functional team collaboration.

● Data-Driven: Comfortable with data analysis to support decision-making and priority setting.

Personal Qualities

We’d love you to be self-aware, thoughtful, empathetic, diligent, hard-working, a lifelong learner, and a great team player. You’d show us that you have:

● Strong interpersonal skills and the ability, perhaps even a passion, to build camaraderie and work effectively on difficult goals with a broad range of business and technical collaborators across cultures and skills.

● Self-awareness to know your own superpower (nobody is great at all things) and the humility to permit others to exercise theirs on a team of accomplished specialists

● Respect and empathy to recognize and support the goals of the company, your team, and colleagues in ways that build trust for people to feel safe to “disagree and commit” (The Amazon Way)

● A work ethic that doesn’t quit, that recognizes that time-to-market is often the only thing that separates teams that win from those that don’t (“No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.” — Elon Musk)

● Tenacity and a dogged determination to never give up

● Innate hunger to constantly do better and evolve both your work product and yourself (You’re a lifelong learner)

● The courage to move fast, break things, and ship products that people use (“Real artists ship.” — Steve Jobs)

● Exceptional communication skills characterized by meticulous attention to detail and precision in verbal and written expression. Consistently deliver clear, comprehensive, and precise information to ensure all team members are aligned and well-informed. Additionally, articulate the team's efforts and impact on other teams, cultivating close collaboration to achieve company-wide objectives.

Education and Experience

● A Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

● Minimum of 5 years in technical project or program management roles, ideally within complex hardware and software product development environments.

● Preference for candidates with experience in a startup or fast-paced environment and exposure to ambient sensing and sensor fusion technologies.

Cherish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed

to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.