NPI Project Manager

Verkada
Taipei, Taiwan
On-site

Who this role is best for

Engineering professionals with project management experience will find this hardware-focused role in a fast-growing tech environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with hardware development and vendor management experience in a fast-paced tech environment
    — “cutting-edge new hardware programs in our NPI phases”
  • Professionals who have led test strategies and resolved technical issues during product validation phases
    — “Lead test strategy and hands-on troubleshooting with JDM engineers during EVT/DVT validation”

Things to consider

  • No visa sponsorship available — candidates must be independently authorized to work in Taiwan
    — “be independently authorized to work in Taiwan”
  • The role requires in-person presence in the Taipei office despite global team collaboration
    — “full-time, in-person role based in our Taipei, TW office”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate your ability to manage cross-functional teams and vendor relationships in your application materials
    — “Manage relationships with our JDM vendors and sub-tier vendors”
  • Emphasize your fluency in Mandarin and English, especially for global communication
    — “Fluency in both Mandarin and English”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Managed CTB readiness for NPI builds
  • Supported successful transition from NPI to MP phases
Typical background
Background in engineeringExperience in project management for hardware development

Skills & requirements

Required

Project ManagementHardware DevelopmentSupply Chain ManagementQuality Assurance

Preferred

Global Team ManagementCross-functional Collaboration

Stack & domain

Project ManagementHardware EngineeringSupply Chain ManagementCommunicationProblem SolvingHardware DevelopmentManufacturing

About the role

Original posting from Verkada via Greenhouse

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. 

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries. 

About the Role

As an NPI Program Manager on our Hardware team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring build readiness as we work to develop and manufacture our cutting-edge new hardware programs in our NPI phases.

A preferred candidate is one who excels at communication and problem solving in a fast paced dynamic environment. This is a full-time, in-person role based in our Taipei, TW office.

What You’ll Do

Work closely with our hardware EPMs, engineers & JDM partners to manage “clear to build” (CTB) readiness for each NPI build including analysis and reporting

Support a successful transition from NPI to MP phases with our supply chain team 

Manage relationships with our JDM vendors and sub-tier vendors

Audit sustaining production quality after PVT/MP1, and whenever a JDM transfers a line to a new factory

Lead test strategy and hands-on troubleshooting with JDM engineers during EVT/DVT validation

What You Bring

Background in engineering

Experience in project management for the development of new hardware products

Experience working with a global team across many different time zones

Fluency in both Mandarin and English 

Taiwan Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

Private medical insurance by Nan Shan Life Insurance

Permanent employees of Verkada Taiwan are eligible for full participation to the group insurance scheme, including accidental death and dismemberment, critical illness, accident medical reimbursement, hospital and surgical, and cancer indemnity cover

Spouses and immediate dependents are eligible to participate in the scheme for accident medical reimbursement, hospital and surgical, and cancer indemnity cover

Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time

Professional development stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Meal stipend

Commuter benefits

Additional Information

You must be independently authorized to work in Taiwan. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. 

Source: Verkada careers (Greenhouse)

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