Senior NPI Technical Program Manager - Operations

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior NPI Program Manager (Operations) to join the Silicon Operations Group. This role is instrumental in facilitating growth and expansion within the company, focusing on products that enable deep learning, artificial intelligence, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), high-performance computing, enterprise graphics, and gaming. As an individual contributor, you will be responsible for the Operations NPI schedule and milestones from tape-out to production release. The ideal candidate has a strong engineering background with a keen interest in program management, thrives in a dynamic environment, and enjoys working on groundbreaking technology. This role requires the ability to see the high-level view while being proficient in tracking details, and the candidate will be the person-in-charge for their product, representing all aspects of silicon bring-up in Operations. You will also help improve processes and efficiency to foster growth for the team and the company.

Requirements

7+ years of proven experience in an engineering or technical/engineering program management role.
Bachelor's in EE (or equivalent experience), Master's preferred.
Excellent leadership, problem-solving, decision-making and cross-functional influencing skills.
Proficiency in Program Management and planning tools.
Ability to analyze and solution supply chain processes.
Excellent knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing flow and processes.
Strong verbal and written communications skills.
Have the ability to work independently and navigate ambiguous situations.

Nice To Haves

PMP or other Project/Program Management Certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

Track and communicate key results, constraints, risks, dependencies and clearly identify critical paths while working with ASIC, product, test, system, software engineering and planning teams and other program managers towards a common goal.
Handle cross-functional communications independently while working within a matrixed GM team and publish progress/roadblocks to upper management.
Bring diverse teams together to tackle complex problems and work towards closure.
Understand and collaborate in developing the Plan of Record (POR), ensuring qualification plans, checklists and specifications are in place to support production release.
Develop engineering wafer and hardware risk plans and own internal and external sample supply.
Lead and attend cross-functional NPI meetings related to your product and highlight key Ops issues and ensure that the product is ready for production.
Drive process improvement initiatives for NPI across Operations and cross functional teams.
Bring new and creative ways to improve overall efficiency and speed at which products are brought to market.
Own metrics for NPI supply commits, production ramp and release turning points and manage bring-up budgets/OPEX for NPI.
Develop processes and metrics for functional teams in Ops planning, engineering, logistics and quality teams.