Program Manager
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MAFull-time / Temporary$90–122K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Program Manager provides operational leadership for MIT’s Technologist for Advanced Manufacturing Program (TechAMP), coordinating MIT researchers and external partners. In collaboration with the Principal Investigator, the role translates strategic priorities and sponsor commitments into plans, operating rhythms, and measurable outcomes. It oversees program operations, implementation, partner relationships, reporting, budgets, performance metrics, and continuous improvement.
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Full job description
Program Manager
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Job Number: 26217
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Functional Area: Research - Engineering
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Department: Mechanical Engineering
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School Area: Engineering
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Pay Range Minimum: $90,320
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Pay Range Maximum: $122,080
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Employment Type: Full-Time
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Employment Category: Exempt
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Visa Sponsorship Available: No
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Schedule:
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Pay Grade: 9
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Posting Description
PROGRAM MANAGER, Mechanical Engineering, to provide operational leadership for the Technologist for Advanced Manufacturing Program (TechAMP). Reporting to Dr. John Liu, this role will coordinate a team of MIT faculty, researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and students, as well as partners from community colleges, universities, state agencies, workforce boards, and industry. The Program Manager will work within MIT’s LEAP Group, which applies design and systems principles to address STEM learning challenges through research-to-practice initiatives in educational technology, simulations, mixed reality, haptics, and curriculum development. The Program Manager will partner with the Principal Investigator to translate strategic priorities, sponsor commitments, and program goals into actionable plans, operating rhythms, and measurable outcomes. Responsibilities include leading program operations; overseeing planning, finance, compliance, communications, partner engagement, curriculum production, and multi-site implementation; and developing a roadmap that identifies milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource needs. The incumbent will maintain quality standards, governance practices, risk-management processes, and a scalable operating model that supports implementation across sites. They will manage sponsor relationships, reporting requirements, and partner-facing communications in collaboration with the PI. This position will establish performance metrics, analyze program and stakeholder data, and lead continuous-improvement efforts. The Program Manager will contribute to budget development, forecasting, reconciliation, and risk mitigation; prepare reports and presentations; and may supervise staff, contractors, vendors, and program contributors.
Job Requirements
REQUIRED: Bachelor’s degree; or a minimum of four years of administration, operations, and/or project or program management experience. PREFERRED: Master’s in relevant field (education, program management).
Duration: 1 year renewable
11/3/2026
How this job compares
Set against the 11,519 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$90–122K/yr
- Massachusetts median$116–189K/yr260 salary ranges
- US median$120–204K/yr9,053 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $106K, is 29% below the Massachusetts median midpoint ($150K) — in the lowest quarter of Program Manager salary ranges in Massachusetts.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 306 open Program Manager jobs in Massachusetts and 11,519 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 9,770 postings).
- Education
- 4,839 of the 11,519 open Program Manager jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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