Technical Program Manager (Hardware, PEL)

Join Arista, a leading technology company, as a Hardware Technical Program Manager. In this critical role, you will drive hardware product development from concept through release to volume production. You will work directly with experienced internal cross-disciplinary engineering team leaders, customers, and strategic partners. Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills are essential. You will be responsible for creating statements of work, product requirement documents, and tracking the cross-functional design engineering validation and qualification status of your programs.

• Lead the cross-functional engineering team through the New Product Introduction (NPI) process from concept through release to mass production.
• Create statement of work (SoW) and product requirement documents (PRD) for complex technical programs, and facilitate weekly cross-functional engineering team meetings.
• Drive, coordinate, and monitor engineering programs including scheduling, planning, product and project cost analysis, and milestone checkpoint reviews.
• Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences, and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, define, document, implement new processes
• Exceptional project management skills
• Design engineering, New Product Introduction, and manufacturing experience with rack-mounted data center or enterprise equipment
• Experience interfacing with product management, internal cross-functional engineering teams, and sub-tier suppliers
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering or equivalent experience. MS/MBA and PMP desirable
• Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time
• Significant working knowledge of hardware development
• Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, software, diagnostics, test, and manufacturing engineering team members
• 10+ years of NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience