Program Manager

Jobinhalt

Battery Program Manager -- MSFT project

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Held responsibility for the creation of functional specifications, project schedules, and risk mitigation plans
• Dictating and enforcing confidentiality and IP protection policies
• Cultivating a world-class HW community—learning about new companies/technologies and sharing with peers, learning from and coaching existing partners, documenting methodology, procedure, and best practices, providing feedback, and driving continuous improvement
• Partnering with Functional Managers to develop team members (i.e., provide active feedback on team members, promotion paths, etc.)
• Partnering with Sourcing, Development, Reliability, Manufacturing, Safety, and Compliance Teams to develop and maintain the battery roadmap
• Partnering with Sourcing, Development, Reliability, Manufacturing, Safety, and Compliance Teams to select suppliers through a disciplined RFQ/RFI process
• Owning the subsystem, system, and supplier team relationship--representing the subsystem, system, and supplier teams when making decision and at meetings
• Justifying and prioritizing the feature set against the product vision and strategy
• Defining and aligning investments to enable vision and project execution with internal/external partner teams
• Evangelizing the feature set across engineering, business and senior leadership
• Removing barriers (i.e., product definition, resource constraints, tradeoff decisions, budget, etc.) for the internal/external cross-functional execution team
• Anticipating risks—assessing, mitigating, and managing accordingly
• Driving the execution and delivery of project collateral using common engineering tools, triage, tracking tasks and issues, and reporting
• Owning the decision to take calculated risks after communicating risks and tradeoffs with the subsystem, system, and supplier teams system teams and getting management approval (as needed)
• Scheduling and driving meetings vertically and horizontally to ensure communication and decision-making
• Driving cross-organizational execution meetings, syncing with US-based PMs and engineering teams
• Coordinating design efforts between US-based Development Teams and Asia-based suppliers
• Partnering with US-based Development, Factory Management, and SQE Teams to ensure quality shipments (meet the spec) to the Tier 1 contract manufacturer
• Partnering with Factory Management and SQE Teams to ensure proper Tier 1 policies that prevent battery damage
• Partnering with Factory Management and SQE Teams to track defect dpm and fault-responsibility and drive continuous improvement actions at all supply chain tiers
• Partnering with Sourcing and Factory Management to track and reduce COGS and spending

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Min. of 5 years in the consumer electronics market and 2 years as a technical program manager or engineer in the Battery Industry
• Technical understanding of battery technologies, supply chain interactions, and manufacturing processes
• Overall understanding of consumer system architecture related to the battery (i.e., system-level FW communication with the battery regarding charge/discharge methodologies, mechanical and electrical tradeoff decisions between the system and battery, PCM- or fuel gauge-level functions and protections for the battery, best practices for longevity and safety of Lithium-Ion battery cells)
• Strong electrical and or mechanical background with a passion for shipping products
• Solid math and engineering background, with a strong understanding of statistics
• Solid critical thinking and questioning skills and be familiar with FMEA, 8D/5C RCCA, and other Failure Analysis techniques such as Decision Tree, Fishbone, Is-Is Not, Pareto, Why-Why, etc.
• High degree of flexibility, willing to immediately fill in the gaps rather than waiting for others to step up
• Excellent cross-organizational and project management skills, thriving in a highly innovative, evolving, and ambiguous environment

* Working permit and Mandarin ability are required with foreigner