Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), 5G/6G Wireless
About The Position
Run program execution for Keysight's 6G collaborations with leading wireless chipset and device makers, ensuring customer commitments are delivered on the dates their engineers need. The role supports Keysight's customer-facing technical team for these accounts within the Wireless organization and covers 6G research testbeds, pre-standard 6G test systems, protocol and physical-layer enablement, and demonstrations tied to customer development milestones. Engineering owners in R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support own the work; the program manager owns the plan, program record, meetings, follow-through, and written recovery plans when dates are at risk or missed. The position requires rigorous documentation and tracking, data-based status reporting, proactive risk identification, and ensuring readiness claims are supported by evidence. The goal is to keep on-site engineers focused on customer lab work by managing program meetings and records independently.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of technical, customer, or engineering program management experience in wireless, semiconductor, or test and measurement.
- Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs through teams outside the program manager's own reporting line in a customer-facing environment.
- Working knowledge of cellular systems, including 4G and 5G, the standards path to 6G, modem and device development cycles, and deployment, acceptance, and use of test equipment in customer labs.
- Fluency in program management practices, including plans of record, critical path, schedule trends against baseline, risk registers, recovery actions, and executive status reporting.
- Strong follow-through and willingness to persist in obtaining written commitments and dates from owners.
- Rigor in checking evidence behind dates, readiness claims, and dependencies.
- Ability to anticipate program risks and raise them to appropriate leads while there is time to act.
- Clear, self-sufficient writing for senior engineering leaders, including notes, status reports, and readouts.
- Experience working directly with Director-level and more senior stakeholders, and discretion when working within highly confidential development programs.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to travel to customer sites as programs require.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a current daily program record for every engagement, including status, named owner, next customer milestone and date, reason for any item not on track, and its recovery plan.
- Manage a plan of record for each engagement to the customer's ready-to-use date, including internal shipment, installation, configuration, acceptance, and first-measurement dates.
- Run internal and customer-facing program meetings, prepare agendas, assign actions to named owners with due dates, and follow up to closure.
- Anticipate and track commitments and risks across R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support; renegotiate dates in writing before they pass and escalate at-risk commitments to Wireless leadership the same day they are identified.
- Review supporting evidence before any date or readiness claim is communicated to the customer.
- Agree on a program plan for each engagement with customer program counterparts and Keysight R&D and planning owners within 90 days of starting, and refresh it at every milestone.
- Deliver meeting notes within one business day, documenting decisions, owners, and dates.
- Provide weekly written status reports covering the situation, implications, and requested actions.
- Prepare monthly program readouts covering schedule performance against the plan of record, critical path, risks and owners, and recommended action for programs off plan.
- Prepare monthly quality reports for each customer covering open issues by priority and age, turnaround against commitments, trends, and actions for adverse trends.
- Write a root-cause analysis and recovery plan for every missed customer milestone, for an engineering executive audience.
- Raise risks and schedule slips in writing, with a request for action, before they are raised by the customer or Keysight leadership.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
