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The Engineering Program Manager leads cross-functional teams through the entire product development lifecycle delivering premium audio to our Japanese customers. The role will focus on developing vehicle audio amplifiers. Integrating hardware and software, bringing the product from concept to mass production on time and on budget, driving deliverables and resolving issues throughout the product development process.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive project execution from scope alignment through delivery.

• Work closely with Engineering leadership to establish and clarify product and program objectives to ensure development teams have the guidance and resources necessary to succeed.

• Ensure schedule-resource alignment by creating comprehensive project schedules with long lead and functional dependencies. Communicate schedules, dependencies, issues, and risks across teams and to all stakeholders. Plan and direct schedules for a group of products overtime.

• Lead and coordinate design/implementation efforts with internal teams and external partners.

• Manage budgets/spend and coordinate with internal partners. Estimate and manage program and product costs including labor, materials, tools, outsource services, and other direct expenses to budget.

• Establish communication plans interfacing with internal and external stakeholders to gain alignment on scope and decisions.

• Communicate project status regularly to stakeholders including status reporting to the development team, management, and customers.

• Keep senior executives and business teams updated on project timelines and results.

• Lead and facilitate development team weekly status meetings publishing weekly status reports.

• Build working relationships with the internal and external teams, technical subject matter experts, stakeholders upper management and customers.

• Work collaboratively to discover and reduce complexity, bottlenecks, and ambiguity. Assess risks and find solutions to efficiently drive achievement of program goals. Creatively develop plans to mitigate issues affecting project deliverables. Escalate issues as needed.

• Partner as a technical liaison between customer facing teams and Engineering teams.

• Manage software and hardware integration points to meet product development and validation requirements.

• Coordinate successful project transitions to Manufacturing including early Engineering prototype and production builds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field (Master’s preferred).

• Minimum of 5+ years of product development experience, with demonstrated experience in project/program management roles.

• Experience working with geographically dispersed cross-functional multi-cultural teams. 3+ years proven ability leading large globally distributed teams through the complete product development lifecycle.

• Ability to manage a portfolio of projects running concurrently over the product lifecycle.

• Experience in managing external 3rd party development resources in a leadership role managing relationships, escalations and negotiations with technology, design, manufacturing, and workforce augmentation partners.

• Automotive product development and customer interaction experience is helpful.

• Exposure and ability to grasp technologies and Engineering/manufacturing processes involved in product development of automotive or other related high-volume products.

• Software project and Engineering team management experience leading software development of embedded microcontroller software, AutoSAR software, software requirements, software architecture, test, software design quality using internal and offshore 3rd party teams.

• Familiarities with Automotive Cybersecurity regulations such as ISO 21434 and OEM specific requirements

• Project Management tools experience with project scheduling and planning, budget tracking and project life-cycle management. Project lifecycle management requirements management and ERP tool proficiency with SAP, Windchill, JAMA, JIRA, or similar tools.

• System level critical thinking skills with the ability to lead a highly technical team of multi-disciplinary of electrical, mechanical, software, systems, manufacturing, test, and design quality engineers.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels including managing up as well as across the organization.

• Detail oriented.

• Highly self-motivated, curious, resilient, and flexible.

If this is a role that interests you and you’d like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

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