Senior Staff, Technical Program Management

Renesas Electronics•Tempe, AZ

5h•Onsite

About The Position

Own execution of Renesas’ strategic AI/Datacenter Infrastructure Power package engineering and New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, from development and qualification through production ramp. The role partners with product Technical Program Managers and personnel at key global OSATs to deliver committed schedules and quality, reliability, and production-readiness objectives. The position works closely with Package Engineering leadership, Power product group teams, and OSAT/contract manufacturing partners. It provides program-level execution leadership and governance while preserving clear technical ownership, identifying and escalating risks, and leading cross-functional technical task forces to resolve issues that threaten quality, reliability, yield, manufacturability, cost, or schedule. The role also supports package technology roadmap execution, builds effective relationships with OSAT/CM leadership, and communicates program health, risks, recovery plans, resource needs, and decisions to directors and senior leaders. It translates organizational priorities into team objectives, staffing recommendations, performance expectations, and development plans, while fostering urgency, accountability, collaboration, and fact-based decision making.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, or Materials Engineering; Materials Science; Physics; Chemistry; or a related technical discipline.
12 or more years of relevant experience in semiconductor engineering, product development, applications, package development, NPI, manufacturing, technical program management, or a closely related field, including experience leading complex cross-functional programs.
Demonstrated experience managing complex semiconductor NPI programs involving package development, assembly, qualification, reliability, and manufacturing ramp.
Strong understanding of the semiconductor product development process and package and assembly processes.
Hands-on experience in Power Management products, particularly in several areas such as power SiP/modules, Smart Power Stages, Vertical Power Stages, Power Modules, Discrete FET packages, battery management systems, PMICs, wafer-level technologies, or flip-chip technologies.
Experience working with OSATs/CMs and managing complex development and production activities across geographically distributed organizations.
Proven track record leading cross-functional technical task forces and resolving complex issues involving quality, reliability, yield, manufacturability, and schedule.
Strong understanding of qualification, reliability, SPC/statistical methods, process development, risk management, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
Strong program management skills, including critical-path management, risk management, executive escalation, schedule recovery, and cross-functional resource alignment.
Strong interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders.
Ability to influence technical and business leaders without direct authority and drive accountability across organizational boundaries.
Strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex technical issues into clear business impact, decisions, and actions.
Willingness to travel domestically and/or internationally approximately 10–20% of the time, including to OSAT/CM sites.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting high-growth, high-visibility customer programs.
Familiarity with wide-bandgap (SiC/GaN) devices, power-module substrates (DBC/AMB), multi-chip technologies, or advanced interconnect technologies.
Experience with formal technical program management methodologies and portfolio-level governance.
Experience driving customer-critical NPI programs in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

Lead Technical Program Management execution for strategic AI/Datacenter Infrastructure Power NPI and package engineering programs, directly managing complex programs as needed.
Partner with Package Engineering Directors and technical leads to provide program-level execution leadership, governance, and accountability while keeping technical ownership clear.
Establish and drive end-to-end NPI program plans, milestones, critical paths, and resource alignment.
Establish a disciplined program management operating model covering development, qualification, customer requirements, production readiness, ramp, and transition to volume manufacturing.
Improve standardized processes, templates, metrics, escalation mechanisms, and lessons-learned practices, and drive consistent execution standards across internal teams and strategic OSAT locations.
Identify technical, quality, reliability, supply, manufacturing, and schedule risks and establish mitigation plans.
Escalate critical issues with clear recommendations and decision points.
Lead cross-functional technical task forces with internal teams and external partners on issues threatening quality, reliability, yield, manufacturability, qualification, schedule, or customer commitments, including process-integration and assembly problems.
Drive root-cause analysis and data-based decisions, and ensure corrective and preventive actions are completed.
Coordinate with Power product group partners, Product Engineering, Reliability, Quality, Operations, and Supply Chain to remove execution barriers and maintain program momentum.
Establish program dashboards and management systems that provide visibility into milestones, critical paths, risks, issues, action owners, and recovery plans.
Drive key OSAT/CM partners through program reviews, milestone tracking, issue escalation, and recovery plans.
Ensure Engineering Build Requests (EBRs) are executed on committed schedules at each OSAT, tracking progress, identifying delays, and driving recovery actions.
Align OSAT/CM development activities, including DOE, process optimization, process-window verification, production controls, qualification, and ramp readiness, with overall NPI objectives.
Build working relationships with OSAT/CM executive and technical leadership to improve responsiveness, accountability, and execution.
Ensure effective transition from development and qualification into production through readiness reviews, ramp monitoring, and issue management.
Communicate program health, critical risks, schedule recovery, resource needs, and required decisions concisely and factually to directors and senior leadership.
Support package technology roadmap execution by translating strategic priorities into executable programs, milestones, resources, and deliverables.
Translate organizational priorities into team objectives, staffing recommendations, performance expectations, and development plans.
Foster urgency, fact-based decision making, cross-functional collaboration, ownership, and rapid issue resolution.