Technical Program Manager

<p><strong>Who You’ll Work With:</strong></p><p>Arista is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager.&nbsp; This is a critical role, ensuring that Arista customer driven programs complete&nbsp;milestone deliverables to meet the customer’s needs and prevent delays to their internal development and deployment programs. As a Technical Program Manager you will work directly with experienced internal cross-disciplinary engineering team leaders, customers, and strategic partners to drive hardware product development from planning, design, validation, qualification, through release to volume production. You will lead the cross-functional engineering team through the NPI product lifecycle phases and the associated design and phase gate reviews. Strong leadership, communications, problem solving, and communication skills are essential.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p><p>Specific Duties and Responsibilities:</p><ul><li>Creating statement of work (SoW) and product requirement documents (PRD) for complex technical programs</li><li>Owns and facilitates weekly cross-functional engineering team meetings.</li><li>Interface with key customers and strategic partners to develop program plans including negotiating schedules, milestone deliverables, prototype allocations, and feature set.</li><li>Lead a cross-functional team from HW, SW, Central, and Diagnostic engineering, manufacturing engineering, product management, ODM/JDM partners, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market.</li><li>You will be responsible for tracking and reporting on the cross-functional design engineering validation, and qualification status of&nbsp;your programs, as well as identifying and solving any concerns prior to them causing impact.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Create a master schedule that captures and inter-connects the key cross-functional deliverables as defined by the product development lifecycle and ensure the team stays on track to meet program milestones.</li><li>Lead program design review and bug scrub meetings</li><li>Identify risks on program planning and actively work on mitigation plan with all stake holders&nbsp;</li><li>Drive, coordinate, and monitor engineering programs including scheduling, planning, product and project cost analysis, and milestone checkpoint reviews.</li><li>Drive cross-functional issue resolution ensuring issues are identified, assigned owners, and tracked to closure. Ensure issues are escalated to the appropriate functional leaders.</li><li>Facilitate engineering portion of phase gate review meetings</li></ul>

<ul><li>10+ years of NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience</li><li>Design engineering, New Product Introduction, and manufacturing experience with rack-mounted data center or enterprise equipment</li><li>Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, software, diagnostics, test, and manufacturing engineering team members</li><li>Exceptional project management skills.</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills.</li><li>Significant working knowledge of hardware development.</li><li>Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to take initiative, define, document, implement new processes.</li><li>Experience interfacing with product management, internal cross-functional engineering teams, and sub-tier suppliers</li><li>Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences, and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders.</li><li>Education: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electronics and communication, industrial engineering or equivalent experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;MS/MBA and PMP are desirable.</li></ul>