Operational Excellence Leader
Flowserve Corporation
Systems Engineering Program Manager
OpenAI
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $380,000 - $460,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Coordinate early engagements on product architecture, feature definition, and program execution
- Support system definition and drive closure of architecture and technical opens in the early stages of a project; establish and maintain a clear feature baseline
- Identify and highlight technical risk areas and mitigation strategies in partnership with multi-functional engineering teams
- Grasp complex technical topics and abstract key issues/risks into actionable communication for leadership
- Maintain a full-system view as the point of convergence across sub-systems (EE/ME/FW/SW, ID/PD, test, operations)
- Create and maintain comprehensive schedules including baselines, cross-functional dependencies, and critical paths
- Lead development budgets and related activities (purchase orders, change requests, invoicing) with rigorous tracking
- Drive key decisions under ambiguity, balancing risk, priority, and schedule
- Establish working cross-functional program plans; identify and manage dependencies and support resolving issues between teams
- Communicate development and feasibility needs, set milestones for checkpoints and status updates, and drive alignment across the organization and with external partners
- Lead cross-functional teams through program milestones and engineering validation activities (e.g., EVT/DVT/PVT)
- Create comprehensive build plans and drive engineering builds with vendors and contract manufacturing (CM/ODM) partners
- Deliver regular executive updates/presentations and drive decision alignment
- Identify and drive process efficiencies for new product introduction (NPI) with multi-functional teams
- Travel as needed to support engineering builds and on-site manufacturing activities
Requirements
- 5+ years of project/program management experience in consumer electronics or hardware product development
- 5–7 years of product development experience from early concept through production, with exposure to hardware, software, test, and infrastructure across both development and manufacturing
- Strong background across hardware and software technologies and understanding of system-level tradeoffs
- Technical depth, crisp communication, and strong judgment
- Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking; comfortable flexing process to fit the problem
- Excel at identifying critical technical questions and organizing teams to efficiently answer them
- Understand how system-level decisions impact user experience and can communicate those impacts clearly
- Ability to lead multiple programs with rapid development cycles and shifting priorities
- History of leading strategic partner relationships and multi-functional collaboration
- Nice to have: Experience in consumer audio, wearables, or other high-volume hardware categories
- Nice to have: Familiarity with reliability, verification/validation, and factory readiness best practices
- Nice to have: Experience with tooling to track build readiness, risks, and quality metrics
- Willingness to travel as needed to support engineering builds and on-site manufacturing activities
