As the Program Manager, you will have the opportunity to manage End-to-End ownership of overall solutions for innovative products. Solid program management of various software development teams, monitoring the quality of the resulting software deliverables and a strong partnership with the customer support teams are the key focus area of this role.
THE PERSON :
The right candidate will have solid knowledge of program management, impeccable track record of delivering complex software programs, and experience with Device Drivers, Firmware, Graphics technology, SOC product development and customer facing experience.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Responsible for leading program level BIOS deliverables and related dependencies, ensuring firmware commitment delivery on schedule from emulation through end of life.
- Responsibilities include defining and leading key product deliverables / schedules and driving cross functional activities to achieve high quality deliverables to internal teams as well as customers.
- Primary contact for firmware deliverables and issue status for internal teams.
- Foster relationship with program, development, QA and validation teams, while leading expectations of internal and external teams.
- Advocate strong process discipline for firmware release sampling, silicon release sampling, firmware issue tracking and operational firmware processes.
- Align with cross-functional teams (Design, Platform, Validation & QA, Customer Teams, and Firmware Development) on requirements, schedules, and deliverables, as well as communicating same.
- Coordinate hardware and silicon sampling ordering to meet committed BIOS / firmware deliverables.
- Maintain awareness of, and provide status reports on firmware readiness, status and key issues.
- Identify program risks and coordinate with firmware management on mitigation plans.
- Commit to the highest levels of internal and external customer happiness.
- Initiates significant changes to existing processes and methods to improve project and team efficiencies.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE :
Experience in areas of datacenter system design, software development, and validationExperience in the computing industry, at the OEM, ODM, or technology provider level.PMP certification a plus, but not requiredBIOS and UEFI knowledge a plus, but not requiredACADEMIC CREDENTIALS :
Bachelor's degree (or higher) in electrical, computer engineering, or computer science strongly preferredProject management experience in a manufacturing test environmentSkilled in MS Office & MS Project tool suites, Confluence, MS SharePoint