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Project Manager

Kickmaker42 open roles

Pay
$110,000 – $150,000 a year
Where
Austin, TX
Work mode
Hybrid
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12.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Kickmaker postings stay open a median of 21 days.

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  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 52.7%60 days
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The posting

Engineering innovators’ ambitions.

Kickmaker partners with innovators to turn ambitious ideas into market-ready products.

Faster, smarter and built to scale.

We are an engineering consultancy and design office with end-to-end capabilities.

With 300+ strategists and engineers across the United States, France and China, we bring together hardware, software and industrial expertise to support high-tech projects from strategic vision to mass production.

From robotics and medical devices to aerospace & defense, mobility & energy, special machinery, consumer products and premium & luxury, we help clients solve complex engineering and production challenges.

Our multidisciplinary teams combine local execution with global manufacturing insight to optimize time, cost and materials, de-risk scale-up and accelerate time-to-market.

Passionate. Principled. Pioneering.

These values shape how we engineer, collaborate and challenge conventions : a maker culture where talented people learn, build and grow together.

Ready to engineer what’s next? Join Kickmaker and turn ambitious ideas into real-world products!

The role

  • Our clients are CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and founders facing high-stakes hardware decisions. You will be the trusted advisor they want at the table when those decisions are made. You will lead discovery and strategy conversations, reframe the challenge at hand, and recommend a path forward that clients can act on with confidence. Where the work is the right fit, you will show them why Kickmaker is the partner best positioned to deliver.
  • This is an advisory role with true commercial ownership. Clients will listen because you have built hardware yourself, and they will act on your guidance because you know how to make a compelling case at the executive level.

What you'll do

  • Lead technical strategy discussions with senior client stakeholders, constructively challenging assumptions to drive better outcomes
  • Shape and defend proposals, with a focus on architecture, make-vs-buy decisions, design for manufacturing (DFM), and industrialization trade-offs
  • Own Tier 0 strategic accounts and grow them across the full product lifecycle, from prototype through EVT, DVT, and PVT to mass production
  • Generate new opportunities by leveraging Kickmaker’s network, industry events, and your own thought leadership, and drive them through to signature
  • Guide Kickmaker’s engineering teams on your accounts by setting technical direction, keeping delivery on track, and ensuring client success from kickoff to handover
  • Partner with our engineering and operations leads in the US and France to oversee scoping and risk management

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years in hardware engineering (robotics), with deep NPI experience and products you’ve helped ship from prototype to production. You can debate design choices as an equal with a client’s senior engineers and earn their trust. This is the heart of the role and our top priority.
  • Executive presence: a clear point of view, comfort disagreeing with C-level leaders, and the ability to turn a technical argument into a business decision
  • Experience with consultative, long-cycle B2B sales
  • Excellent written and verbal English
  • US-based, authorized to work in the US, and ready to travel for clients

A plus

  • A background at an engineering, deep-tech, or product development consultancy where you took hardware from concept to production, or a hardware startup of your own
  • A proven shift into strategic or commercial work (CTO, VP of Engineering, CCO, General Manager, Principal Consultant, Senior Solutions Leader, or Director of Sales Engineering), with accounts you’ve grown or deals you’ve closed
  • R&D background: patents, publications, or leading an advanced engineering lab
  • Experience in manufacturing transfer and working with outsourced supply chains
  • A strong network among US hardware, robotics, medtech, industrial or consumer-electronics leaders
  • Exposure to US deployment of French or European business

Please be advised that the stated salary represents the fixed component of your annual remuneration only. In addition, you will be eligible for a variable component, contingent upon the achievement of agreed objectives, which together constitute your total compensation package

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