
Senior Project Manager
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full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: San Jose • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $154,500 - $247,200 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead multi-site, multi discipline, cross functional teams in an innovative, collaborative environment to define and deliver committed prototypes, demonstrations, and/or products, all using our phase gate or iterative processes.
- Successfully deliver to the agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality while managing execution, scope changes, risks, tradeoffs, expectations, and communications.
- Responsible for successful delivery of the project goals and business results associated with them.
- Lead complex projects negotiate tradeoffs, determine and commit to aggressive yet achievable scope, schedule, and budget to deliver winning business results by applying state of the art project management tools and techniques.
- Drive and monitor all day-to-day project work, making sure that problems are resolved quickly.
- Escalate and drive issues that are out of the project team’s control through the management chain for rapid resolution.
- Lead project and phase gate approval reviews, providing clear and concise written and verbal communication to all levels of the project team and stakeholders, and tailoring style to a broad range of audiences and situations.
- Run and monitor budgets for key engineering projects by tracking material requisitions, ensuring material is delivered, and generating reports on budget status.
- Depending upon the scope of the project, you may support the Engineering NPI process for new projects by creating and monitoring schedules and budgets, generating periodic reports on project status, progress, and plans, and working with cross functional teams to ensure projects meet goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree, preferably in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
- Must have experience managing complex technical projects with electromechanical design and software elements in a product development environment on aggressive TTM timelines.
- 10+ years of technical project management and product development experience required.
- Experience as a hands-on engineer in hardware, software, or mechanical engineering.
- Experience managing complex, lengthy projects.
- Lead cross functional teams of 10–20 people, ~12-month duration, possibly across multiple geographic locations.
- Self-motivated, accountable individual with strong commitment to meeting personal and team goals as well as professional development.
- Strong expertise in systematic problem-solving approaches.
- Competency to lead and drive complex decisions.
- Excellent organizational and written / verbal communication skills.
- Proficient with Microsoft Windows.
- Proficient in Microsoft Project (setup, tracking, reporting).
- Proficient in Excel / Word / PowerPoint for project tracking and communication.
- Must communicate effectively with cross functional teams to set goals, schedules, and resolve problems.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance
- paid vacation & holidays
- tuition assistance programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
project managementelectromechanical designsoftware developmenttechnical project managementproduct developmentsystematic problem-solvingbudget managementschedule managementcross functional team leadershipaggressive timeline management
Soft Skills
self-motivatedaccountablestrong commitmentexcellent organizational skillswritten communicationverbal communicationdecision-makinggoal settingproblem resolutioncollaboration
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)Bachelor of Science in EngineeringBachelor of Science in Computer Science