Project Manager – Product Development

About TCG Machines

The role

Plan and schedule

• Baseline project plans with each lead and maintain integrated Jira schedules with visible critical paths.
• Run weekly core-team meetings, track actions to closure, identify schedule slips, develop recovery options, and escalate at-risk dates.
• Track project budgets and forecasts against plan.

Stage gates and control

• Prepare evidence packages for stage gates and recommend go or no-go decisions to leadership.
• Maintain risk registers, decision logs, and change logs, and run scope changes through change control.
• Keep requirements, specifications, and test results under document control.

Development and build coordination

• Follow up with external design contractors and suppliers on deliverables, checkpoints, and long-lead parts.
• Coordinate design reviews, prototype and validation builds, and test results across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software teams.
• Coordinate bills-of-materials releases and engineering changes with engineering, purchasing, and production.
• Coordinate customer pilots of new features and hardware revisions, including builds, shipment, commissioning, and schedule reporting.
• Coordinate product-certification plans for the markets served.

Release readiness

• Track readiness across production, service, support, sales, and marketing using dated checklists for training, spares, documentation, and release materials.
• Close projects with a review and lessons learned to inform future work.

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years managing projects in hardware product development or manufacturing, including an electromechanical product taken from prototype into production.
• Experience with stage-gate or new-product-introduction work covering prototype, validation, pilot build, and production release.
• Working knowledge of bills of materials, engineering change control, and document control.
• Experience managing contractors and suppliers to dates and deliverables, and on projects combining hardware, firmware, and software.
• Fluency in Jira boards, backlogs, epics, and dashboards, and in Excel-based schedules and tracking.
• Clear written and spoken communication, strong organization across workstreams, and calm follow-through.

Preferred qualifications

• An engineering degree or background in mechanical, electrical, mechatronics, or a similar discipline; PMP or equivalent, or working toward it.
• Product-certification experience, such as CSA/UL, FCC/ISED, or CE/UKCA; design for manufacture and assembly, production ramp-up, or customer pilot experience.
• ERP/MRP experience; Odoo is a strong asset. Experience with machine-vision or machine-learning products is preferred.
• Trading-card or collectibles retail familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement.

Why TCG Machines

• The role works directly with the CPO and leadership team on projects spanning design, build, test, and service.
• The company describes a path into product management as the product team grows for people who demonstrate capability.

Pay

• The description lists pay of $85,000 to $120,000, but the compensation cadence is truncated and not stated clearly.