Job Title: Technical Program Manager II Duration: 12 months (chance of extension) Location: Sunnyvale, CA - Being able to come in to the office 3 days a week and be present with this team
Summary:
The main function of a Technical Program Manager is to provide successful definition, implementation and delivery of complex programs that require cross-functional collaboration and interdependencies across a group of projects and/or related activities.
This function requires experience with SoC, IP and Silicon Development.
Familiarity with Design, Verification, Architecture with skills like Logic Design, Simulation, DFT, PD, Timing analysis is highly recommended
Top 3 must-have HARD skills:
Knowledge and experience in Silicon
Being very adaptable, flexible and great with people. More so looking at navigating people, projects and structures
Ability to create assets, have tooling knowledge (JIRA, G-Sheets)
Good to have skills:
Has directly managed in the wearables space and silicon space
People with an appetite of software and writing small scripts
Being able to come in to the office 3 days a week and be present with this team
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition:
This team will strongly be involved in being a part of a very compelling team that will be responsible for leading edge technology and advancements in the VR Wearables space.
There will be a lot of exposure and learning opportunities in this role
Typical Day in the Role:
This individual will be directly supporting silicon technical program managers.
They will be running engineering sprints, tracking things to closure, user management on drives and tracking metrics.
Managing the ecosystem of partnerships across the team and business. Communication management with their Wikis.
Job Responsibilities:
Deliver programs within the constraints of scope, quality, time and budget and under circumstances involving multiple moderate-probability, moderate-impact risk factors.
Program-level strategic planning, interaction with executive level management, complex issue resolution, excellent communications and team building skills.
Manage a group or groups of internal exempt and matrixed employees and contractors that serve on the project(s) to deliver systems and systems enhancements that meet specified requirements.
Oversight of project scope definition and management, requirements gathering and documentation, time estimating, project schedule development and tracking, project budget management, project status reporting, issue and risk management, contingency planning, customer interaction, and communications across multiple organizational levels.
Skills:
Project estimating, project scheduling & tracking, customer interaction and management, implementation planning in large organizations
Proven people management and team building skills
Demonstrated ability to be flexible/ adaptable in exercising judgment in a changing environment and to manage competing priorities
Proven ability to learn business processes quickly and to work well with business partners at different levels within the organization
Strong ability to assess risk and apply management principles to technology applications/products and business functions
Experience delivering technology and business application solutions in a large-scale, multi-platform systems environment
Experience with software development lifecycle
Education/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred.
Experience in Silicon Development, SoC and IP. Familiarity with Design, Verification, Architecture with skills like Logic Design, Simulation, DFT, PD, Timing analysis
PMP or PMI certification
Interview Process: Timeline expectation on manager review of candidates: Would need about 48 hours How many rounds of interviews? 1-2 Interviews Types of Interviews: 1st interview with team member and 2nd interviews with CWAM Zoom
These interviews will be strictly allowing candidates explaining their experience based on the three must haves for this requisition. There will be some behavioral questions with scenarios and how they would handle situations using examples. There may be some questions on tooling experience and their knowledge in this space.
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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: $80.00/hr.