What Youll Be Doing:
Define and manage program schedules, deliverables, and turning points aligned with customers and partners roadmaps and requirements.
Translate customer requirements into actionable tasks for all functional teams, driving timely issue resolution across engineering, quality, logistics, and sales.
Provide horizontal leadership to drive cross-functional program execution, managing high priority issues/concerns, and coordinating globally dispersed teams to ensure clear alignment on objectives.
Act as the primary customer interface, facilitating program kick-offs, technical discussions, design reviews, issues/bug tracking and resolution, customer qualification/validation efforts, and status updates throughout the product lifecycle.
Drive program execution from design through production deployment, ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and customer acceptance.
Provide ongoing post-deployment sustaining support, serving as case manager for field quality issues or high priority concerns with major enterprise customers, cloud service providers.
Monitor factory production schedules, yields, and blockers, collaborating with ODM/contract manufacturers to resolve issues and meet operational targets with major enterprise customers, cloud service providers.
Proactively communicate program health, risks, and key issues to both customers, internal partners, and leadership (Hardware, Software, Operations, Business, Quality, Sales, and Product Teams), ensuring transparency and alignment.
What We Need to See:
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8-10+ years of program/project management experience in the semiconductor, IT, automotive, or embedded systems industries with major enterprise customers, cloud service providers
Strong technical background in hardware and/or software product development with experience working closely with OEMs , ODMs, and cloud service providers
Consistent track record of leading complex, global programs through full development lifecycles into deployment and production.
Excellent program management, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize issues and drive cross-functional alignment.
Consistent track record to coordinate with global teams and navigate multi-cultural, multinational business environments.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for diverse technical and non-technical audiences, from engineers to executives.
Willingness to travel as required (up to 10%), and thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
Ways to Stand Out from the crowd:
Track record running end-to-end hardware and software product development in with major enterprise customers or cloud service providers
Strong leadership in matrixed collaboration, conflict resolution, and consensus-building.
Proven expertise in leading all aspects of production schedules, optimizing line yields, and resolving sophisticated field quality challenges.
Strong background thriving in dynamic, high-growth environments, with proven adaptability to obscurity, rapid change, and matrixed team structures.
