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We’re always looking for top talent to join our team at Baja Designs. From off-road enthusiasts to engineers, we have opportunities to challenge and learn new skills. The prospect of being a part of a fast-growing company surrounded by smart, ambitious, motivated people every day. Baja Designs Offers competitive pay and benefits to all of our employees. For our up-to-date job listings, visit our indeed.com job board > CLICK HERE
- Posted 7-8-2026
- San Marcos, CA 92069 | Full-time
- $28 – $36 an hour – Full-time
We are seeking a seasoned and forward-thinking Project Manager to lead new Baja Designs Vehicle Specific Kit (VSK) and applications projects across the automotive, motorcycle, commercial, and powersports segments. This role will focus on coordinating cross department activities to ensure on-time, on-budget product launches. The ideal candidate will use experience in project management with relevant industry experience to dictate strategy through unknowns, collaborate across departments, and execute complex development projects with minimal oversight.
Key Responsibilities:
- Primary responsibilities are to coordinate activities and deliverables of engineering team to ensure continuous on-time launch of Vehicle Specific Kits and application-based lighting and power management products.
- Market Analysis: Proactively research and evaluate VSK trends (automotive, powersports, moto, industrial), technologies, and competitor activity to ensure proper allocation of internal resources and onboarding of partner solutions.
- Opportunity Identification: Maintain master list for new Vehicle Specific Kit to be developed, leveraging data insights, voice of customer, and market forecasts to justify investments.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead cross-departmental collaboration with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Production, and Technical Support to ensure timely and successful product development and launch.
- Project Governance: Own the full product development lifecycle – setting timelines, defining milestones, holding stakeholders accountable, and managing deliverables across multiple projects in parallel. For smaller projects, work independently to turn project requirements into designs that are manufactured and launched without pulling resources from higher priority projects.
- Technical Process Oversight: Work with Product Development Management Coordinator to guide the creation and accuracy of part numbers, BOMs, pricing structures, and product specifications.
- External Engagement: Cultivate and manage relationships with business partners and customers to access vehicles for VSK development as well as onboarding of partner VSK solutions.
- Continuous Improvement: Maintain and improve SOPs to reflect best practices and evolving standards within the Engineering and Product Development team.
- Product Line Maintenance: Ensure compatibility databases and website product pages are consistently updated with current year, make, model information.
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Why Join Baja Designs:
For over 30 years, Baja Designs has engineered revolutionary ways to stay at the forefront of automotive lighting. The first product developed was a Dual Sport kit that made a pure off-road motorcycles street-legal. This intimate knowledge of motorcycle electrical capabilities led to a natural evolution to engineer the first HID motorcycle race light. Founder and engineer Alan Roach was an avid Baja 1000 motorcycle racer who could fine-tune a motorcycle’s limited light optics to maximize rider comfort, speed, and safety. As a result, Baja Designs Lights has won every professional and amateur motorcycle and ATV Baja 1000 class for over 15 years.Moving forward to today, Baja Designs is at the forefront of lighting technology. Being mainly an aftermarket product we can adapt to the newest technologies in weeks instead of years. This has attracted the attention of everyone from the US Special Forces, foreign countries, and some of the fastest racecar drivers in the world. We design the highest-performing lights that will stand the test of time and through the harshest environments so your light is there when needed.
Baja Designs Mission Statement
The 6 Core Values at Baja Designs
- Respect– Everyone is a priority
- Accountability– Regardless of title, we are all responsible for our performance, words, and actions
- Personal + Professional Growth- Support each other’s individual growth so we grow as a team
- Teamwork- We contribute & collaborate in a positive manner
- Clear + Honest Communication- Our effective communication leads to our success
- Work/Life Balance- We work to live, not live to work
