Staff Operations Program Manager

Staff Operations Program Manager 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Operations Program Manager to take the lead in managing production and supply chain execution with our key Contract Manufacturers (CMs). This strategic role is responsible for driving operational excellence, managing CM relationships, overseeing production readiness (NPI to Mass Production), and ensuring strict adherence to product specifications and manufacturing schedules. You will own the end-to-end management of production programs, ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and cost-effectiveness of our products.

Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast-growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

On a given day at Lunar, you’ll likely…

• Drive operations and manufacturing consensus in cross-functional program meetings, ensuring decisions align with production readiness, cost, and capacity requirements.
• Create and present program updates and timelines to the company, including members of the executive team
• Lead production readiness reviews and ensuring processes and equipment are in place when needed, whether that is a brand new NPI program or for implementing changes on existing products
• Attend and lead external meetings with our CMs and suppliers to regularly monitor and review their production metrics and drive continuous improvement
• Work with our CMs to ensure any production impacting issues are addressed and production is uninterrupted, including but not limited to items related to manufacturing process or quality, test, supply chain, and logistics.
• Work closely with Lunar’s planning team to understand annual forecasts and drive any actions needed for meeting production demands

Desired Skills:

• Education level
• BA or BS or higher in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain/Operations or equivalent practical experience
• Experience
• Minimum of 5 years leading programs in both NPI and sustaining production environments
• Experience working with CMs in startup/NPI environment with knowledge of manufacturing principles
• Experience at a CM or supplier a plus
• Specific skills/systems/tools
• MES, MRP, ERP, PLM
• Demonstrated understanding of operations first principles and lean manufacturing
• Proficiency in Excel/Sheets, PowerPoint/Slides, Smartsheet/Timeline tools, Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence)
• Proficient in data analysis and communicating findings through appropriate data visualizations

Benefits:

We’re dedicated to creating a remarkable employee experience. At Lunar, competitive base pay is one part of our total compensation package. Lunar employees also have the opportunity to become Lunar shareholders by getting equity in a fast-growing company and participating in our employee stock program.

Additional benefits include: 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Flexible Paid Time Off plus 10 paid holidays
• Tax deferred 401(k) plan 
• Paid parental leave for all full time employees including 12 weeks paid parental leave for the birthing mother and 6 weeks paid parental leave for the non-birthing parent 
•  Subsidized EV charging and pre-tax commuter benefits

Our DE&I Philosophy: Lunar Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent by supporting an inclusive workplace. Lunar recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law.

Our Compensation Philosophy: Our goal is to ensure that all Lunar Energy employees are fairly compensated. Please note that the salary range information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position provided pursuant to the Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act for California applicants. The salary range estimate for this position depending on level of experience is: $150,000 - $200,000 USD.

The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package & benefits, will be at the company’s sole discretion, and determined by factors including but not limited to years of experience, job level, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. The company also reserves the right to amend or modify this job description, employee perks, and benefits at any time.