Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM)

Keysight Technologies, Inc. • Santa Rosa, CA

6h

About The Position

Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~15,000 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn more about what we do.
Our award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.
The Wireless IST team is seeking a proactive Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead complex, cross‑functional hardware programs from concept through customer delivery. The TPM drives schedules, risks, communication, and alignment across R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, support, and customer teams to deliver integrated radio subsystems meeting stringent performance and qualification requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Engineering or related field (advanced degree preferred).
• 5-8+ years in technical program management or engineering leadership.
• Experience coordinating across R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Strong understanding of hardware development and hardware/software integration.
• Strong risk management and problem‑solving skills.
• Skilled with MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, and Confluence.
• Need to address US person requirement – Maria?

Nice To Haves

• Experience in high-technology industries (e.g., wireless, satellite, networking, test & measurement).
• Experience leading complex hardware/software customer programs.
• Excellent communication and executive‑level reporting skills.
• PMP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to-end planning and execution across R&D, IST, manufacturing, and supply chain, and customer teams.
• Serve as the primary program interface to the customer TPM, internal leadership, and engineering organizations.
• Ensure all functions are aligned on priorities, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and required milestones.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously update the integrated master schedule, critical path, and dependencies.
• Maintain a comprehensive risk register including risk identification, owners, mitigation plans, and closure timelines.
• Ensure all program documentation (SOW deliverables, plans, reports, action logs) is up to date and accessible.
• Deliver weekly internal status updates summarizing progress, risks, issues, decisions, and next steps.
• Provide monthly program reports for leadership and customer, highlighting: Progress, schedule adherence, any changes in the critical path.
• Accomplishments for the period and plans for the following month.
• Summarized in a risk matrix with anticipated closure dates.
• Communicate issues clearly with root causes, impacts, and recovery plans.
• Prepare executive‑ready slides, dashboards, and data‑driven insights.
• Facilitate with customer TPM to clarify requirements, review progress, manage expectations, and address escalations.
• Ensure commitments to customers are realistic, documented, and consistently met.
• Align customer deliverables with internal engineering and manufacturing schedules.
• Ability to successfully manage customer expectations through solution delivery cycle.
• Improve program execution processes and support milestone/risk governance.
• Help establish governance structures for milestone reviews, risk management, and change control.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level