Sr Program Manager

Primary duties and responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated program delivery plan, translating commitments into milestones, deliverables, owners, and acceptance criteria.
• Connect product introduction, qualification, supply readiness, and production-ramp milestones to customer schedules, including transfers where applicable.
• Track delivery commitments, drive corrective action, and resolve priority or resource conflicts, escalating tradeoffs as needed.
• Run weekly strategic-customer reviews covering commitments, delivery performance, risks, recovery plans, and required decisions.
• Maintain consolidated program health and risk views, including backlog, delivery, qualification readiness, dependencies, and revenue at risk.
• Prepare executive updates and decision materials and provide timely status and risk communications to leadership.
• Lead delivery-process improvement initiatives and coach team members in planning, risk management, and escalation.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field.
• 5 to 10 years of program or project management industry experience and a record of successful on-time program delivery.
• Experience leading complex technology programs across multiple businesses, functions, or geographies.
• Experience with hardware development, qualification, and production ramps.

Additional qualifications

• Strong integrated planning, dependency management, risk assessment, and recovery execution capability.
• Able to influence without direct authority, resolve competing priorities, and lead culturally and technically diverse teams across regions.
• Cross-functional initiative leadership, including coaching or mentoring experience.
• Executive presence and ability to explain customer impact of technical and operational issues.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, including use of data and analytics.
• Optical line system and coherent modem/pluggable technology knowledge is a strong plus.

Working conditions

• Hybrid role; remote work is possible, but on-site work is preferred.
• Occasional overtime and flexible work hours may be needed to accommodate global cross-functional teams.

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