Design Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Operations, or a related technical field; PMP certification preferred.
• 10-12+ years of experience managing complex product-development programs for integrated electronic hardware within a Quality Management System.
• Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, quality, change control, stakeholders, and phase-gate governance from concept through mass production and sustaining handoff.
• Experience coordinating global design teams, manufacturer teams, suppliers, and customers in a matrix organization.
• Experience with professional display, interactive touch, human-machine interface, control-panel, conferencing, industrial electronics, or comparable embedded connected products strongly preferred.
• Project management experience across PCBA design and manufacturing, mechanical enclosure development, and box-build manufacturing from prototype through production ramp.
• Agile or Scrum experience preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education, experience, and training may be considered.
• Strong project leadership, customer communication, executive reporting, negotiation, meeting facilitation, conflict resolution, and issue-escalation skills.
• Ability to manage global cross-functional teams and deliver customer commitments on time and within budget.
• Working knowledge of touch-display architecture, including display and touch modules, cover glass, optical bonding, embedded electronics, firmware, connectivity, mechanical enclosures, and box build.
• Ability to manage PCBA, enclosure, box-build, manufacturing, verification, reliability, compliance, and engineering-change deliverables without serving as the functional design authority.
• Proficiency with integrated schedules, resource and budget tracking, dependency maps, risk and action logs, dashboards, change control, and phase-gate reporting.
• Fluency in English and Chinese is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• PMP certification preferred.
• Experience with professional display, interactive touch, human-machine interface, control-panel, conferencing, industrial electronics, or comparable embedded connected products strongly preferred.
• Agile or Scrum experience preferred.
• Fluency in English and Chinese is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage programs from requirements and architecture planning through validation, certification, production launch, and sustaining handoff.
• Develop and maintain integrated scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, milestones, dashboards, risks, issues, and change controls.
• Coordinate global electrical, mechanical, optical, touch, firmware, software, quality, sourcing, supplier, test, and manufacturing teams; clarify ownership, dependencies, decisions, and deliverables.
• Manage customer and executive communications, design and readiness reviews, action closure, contract commitments, and timely escalation of unresolved issues.
• Oversee PCBA workstreams, including design reviews, BOM and component readiness, prototype and NPI builds, verification, production test, yield improvement, and production transition.
• Oversee mechanical enclosure workstreams, including materials, tooling, tolerance and fit, structural and thermal considerations, cosmetics, prototypes, and production qualification.
• Manage box-build integration and readiness for PCBAs, displays, touch modules, enclosures, cables, firmware, calibration, final testing, traceability, labeling, packaging, and manufacturing ramp.
• Ensure functional owners define and complete product requirements, design deliverables, compliance, reliability, and validation for touch performance, image quality, environmental, mechanical, electrical-safety, EMC, wireless, and representative-use conditions.
• Coordinate suppliers and manufacturing teams on tooling, component availability, qualification builds, test coverage, yield, end-of-life risks, cost, and recovery plans.
• Maintain customer satisfaction, confidentiality, and compliance with company safety, health, security, and quality procedures; perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, prescription drug, and vision insurance, with HRA and HSA options
• 401(k) match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet insurance
• Adoption assistance
• Annual merit increases
• Community volunteer opportunities