Responsibilities include:
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
Writing detailed functional or requirement specifications that enable product engineering to execute
Evangelizing the feature set across engineering, business and senior leadership
Building transparent project and business plans (.xls, .mpp, etc.), followed by communicating the plan and status with project stakeholders
Maintaining a healthy “willingness to do business again” relationship with the company across the Supply Chain
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)
Organizing and present program reviews/status to engineering, business, and senior management
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 all execution and stakeholder teams to ensure manufacturing continuity of supply
Partnering with Sourcing and Factory Management to track and reduce COGS and spending
Partnering will all internal cross-functional and external supplier teams to maintain the Supplier Performance Review process to drive and track continuous improvement and understand emerging technologies
We are seeking an experienced Program Manager in Taipei, Taiwan who has a proven track record through several product cycles. You will be responsible for working with the Redmond and Suzhou Development Teams to help define and execute development from concept to prototype to implementation for Surface product batteries.
You will work with internal and external partner teams, marketing, user experience, product management, architects, development, verification, reliability, manufacturing, quality assurance, safety, certification, and environmental teams to align objectives, create functional specifications, implement and execute plans, and ultimately deliver a high-quality product.
The successful candidate will have (a/an):
Effective English and Chinese written and oral communication skills
Minimum of 10 years in the consumer electronics market
Minimum of 5 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
Strategic/tactical leadership skills—enthusiastic, self-driven, organized, and motivated to achieve results
Excellent cross-organizational and project management skills, thriving in a highly innovative, evolving, and ambiguous environment
Held responsibility for the creation of functional specifications, project schedules, and risk mitigation plans