Job Title: Engineering Project Manager - Standalone Accessories
Duration: 6 Months - hybrid schedule      
Location: Cupertino, CA (95014)
 
Job Summary

• As a Project Manager within the Hardware Engineering organization, you will be responsible for managing the development and implementation process for our Standalone Accessories team.
• In this role, you will drive the day-to-day activities to meet the overall program objectives in support of our Packaging design group, development planning and validation cycles.

Key Qualifications

• Identify and direct all resources required to execute successful projects.
• Create and maintain project timelines.
• Collaborate and facilitate communication across engineering managers, operations managers, marketing managers, and OEM partners to meet schedule and quality goals.
• Lead cross-functional communication between project teams and external vendors.
• Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management.
• Offer multiple levels of status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to executive management.
• Possess strong presentation skills.
• Understand technical issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key stakeholders for decision making.
• Oversee Material Availability (CTB) activities for all builds, including overseeing teams that drive factory data and accuracy. Assist in management status reports/communications and escalations.
• Manage logistics of parts for builds.
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities include:

• Drive product integration and ensure trade compliance and consumer laws are met, enabling the standalone accessory product to ship worldwide.
• Develop standalone accessory product timelines based on AMC and align schedules and deliverables with cross-functional teams and CM partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop product and SKU optimization/reduction strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and CM partners to meet schedules and ensure overall product deliverables are met.
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional standalone accessory meetings with key stakeholders.
• Create and maintain project scope and Pulse page on a daily basis to provide the most recent program updates.
• Provide and track program updates and action items via Pulse to communicate and align priorities with cross-functional teams.
• Provide timely issue resolution and lead critical path management discussions, including escalations.
• Drive, manage, and review First Article Inspections (FAIs) with cross-functional key stakeholders. Continuously sync with CMs to meet and exceed overall quality expectations.
• Oversee and own product management for all standalone accessories from cradle to grave (NPI to EOL), driving consensus and accountability with key stakeholders.
• Review and approve as a key stakeholder in the Customer Experience Testing (CET) for OK2Ship to enable a successful product launch.
• Manage project disclosures to ensure client’s new product security.
• Perform configuration management and ensure product data integrity (ECOs, AML NRCs, APNs, MPN BOMs).
• Administer FAI tools (setup).
• Manage end-to-end lifecycle for sustaining standalone accessories.

 
Education/Experience

• BS/BA degree or 5+ years of industry experience.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks, dates, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience.
• Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.
• Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity.
• Experience with portable consumer electronics devices and familiarity with mechanical enclosure parts.
• Detailed knowledge of product development processes as well as a strong understanding of manufacturing processes.
• Experience interfacing with Operations, Mechanical Engineering/Design and Marketing.

 
  

 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $77.91/hr.