Principal, Program Design

Job Details:

Role: Principal, Program Design

Location: Hyderabad, India

Employment Type: Regular (PERM)

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Description:

****Automotive MCUs hold the No. 1 world-wide market share, and we are now aiming to expand our product lineup to achieve further business growth. Therefore, creating a need to strengthen the organization accordingly. Hardware Development is a vital element necessary to expand our business and this is also why we would like to invite talented Project Managers to join us on our mission. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the Project development for automotive MCU products from Planning to MP (Mass Production) phase on schedule.

• Collaborate closely across multiple departments such as Customers, Software Teams, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, Sales and Vendors/Suppliers during project development phase.

• Deploy best Program Management Practices: Bottoms-up planning, Dependency mapping, Critical path analysis and Risk mitigation using industry standard planning tools such as MS-Project for Project planning and execution.

• Monitor the Project development progress and report the status on a regular basis and escalate issues whenever needed. Also provide regular Project updates to the Senior Management.

• Co-ordinate and Conduct Project Gate reviews.

• Take personal accountability to drive the projects and deliver them on schedule. Ensure proper project meeting cadence is in place and with regular follow-ups on ALL Action Items to resolve any open issues.

• Support Program Manager and project team in all organizational activities during the project development.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years project management experience in the engineering sector.

• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in of HW Chip development (CPU’s/GPU’s/MCU’s/SoC’s/Memory dev etc.)

• Able to plan and manage complex Projects spanning across multiple departments

• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills

• Expertise in Microsoft Office 365 including advanced skills in MS Project

• Atlassian JIRA and Confluence

• PMP / PMA certificate is a plus

• Confident English speaker in a global business environment.