Program Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, or an equivalent technical field.
• Typically 6–10 years of experience.
• Experience designing and developing project and program planning tools to create, manage, and track project results.
• Ability to lead and influence diverse teams and work effectively across cultural and time-zone boundaries.
• Strong organizational, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate program and technical plans, proposals, and results effectively and negotiate options at senior-management levels.
• Ability to bridge highly technical engineering teams and non-technical business or executive leadership.
• A history of innovation, with examples of developing new business, technical, engineering, or manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrated business acumen and successful experience managing program activities, including executive briefings, leading or working with scrum teams, negotiating with business groups, communicating with stakeholders, and directing matrix teams and resources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate program plans, proposals, and results and negotiate options at senior-management levels.
• Effective communication: clear, concise, and persuasive verbal and written skills.
• Results orientation: focus on delivery and market impact.
• Learning agility: ability to grasp new technologies rapidly and adapt to changing market dynamics.
• Technical depth sufficient to influence engineering decisions and challenge assumptions.
• Stakeholder-management skills, including influencing without authority across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead programs involving multiple functions and project teams, from ideation through implementation, with defined timelines and resources.
• Serve as the central point of contact for memory co-innovation projects across partners and align partner technical roadmaps with engineering teams across disciplines.
• Guide engineering teams and coordinate multiple parties in implementing proof of concepts; ensure lessons learned are captured and shared.
• Drive innovation and the integration of new technologies and quality initiatives into projects to deliver solutions to market.
• Develop and direct key milestones, critical deliverables, and program support requirements to achieve successful outcomes.
• Lead and influence efforts across Pan-HP business units to ensure all areas are represented and solutions are implemented using HP’s processes.
• Communicate program progress, escalations, and issue analyses to stakeholders and executives.
• Synthesize complex program data into progress reports, risk analyses, and escalation paths for HP executives and partner stakeholders.
• Review and evaluate program plans and provide actionable feedback to improve the quality and efficiency of the organization’s program management framework.