About The Role:- We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to work on wearables electrical engineering hardware device project.
Job Title: Electrical Technical Program Manager II (PCB)
Key Responsibilities:- Deliver programs within defined scope, quality, schedule, and budget constraints, navigating moderate-probability and moderate-impact risk factors
- Lead cross-functional, multi-project initiatives requiring broad alignment and coordination across engineering, operations, and vendor teams
- Manage overseas contract manufacturing vendors, interfacing with them and their engineering team, overseeing program management.
- Oversee all phases from design through "OK to Fab," including work with flexes, rigid boards, and hardware design processes.
- Ensure effective implementation planning and project tracking in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Provide program-level strategic planning and partner with executive-level leadership for direction-setting and status communication.
- Manage and influence internal exempt employees, matrixed teams, and contractors to deliver high-quality systems and enhancements.
- Foster strong team collaboration, uphold accountability, and drive issue resolution.
- Engage with vendors, ensuring expectations, schedules, and deliverables are clearly aligned and managed.
- Lead scope definition, requirements gathering, documentation, and timeline estimation.
- Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, status reports, and communication plans across multiple organizational levels.
- Oversee budget management, resource allocation, contingency planning, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Drive the use of program-level issue/bug tracking and risk management tools.
- Manage creation and maintenance of build matrixes across multiple configurations.
Minimum Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of related experience required
- Full lifecycle Technical Program Management experience overseeing hardware design through "OK to Fab" (including flexes and rigid boards)
- Electrical engineering experience, primarily interfacing with managing electrical engineering team, scheduling milestones, upleveling key issues & risks from the engineering team
- Strong vendor management, matrixed team leadership, and stakeholder communication skills up to executive leadership.
- Experience managing overseas contract manufacturing vendors, interfacing with them and their engineering team, overseeing program management.
- Proven track record managing cross-functional programs, complex schedules,risk management frameworks, and bug/issue tracking in large organizations.
Preferred Qualifications:- MBA or a related advanced degree preferred
- Mandarin language proficiency.
- PMP or PMI certification preferred
- Prior FAANG or Big Tech a plus
Location: Redmond, WA or Sunnyvale, CA [Onsite]
Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $135,000 - $208,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]
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Preferred Skills Electrical Engineering
- Technical Project Management
- Technical Program Management
- Vendor Management
- Budget Management
Job details Job ID 333095
Role Electrical Technical Program Manager II (PCB)
Location Redmond, Washington, US
Job type Direct Hire
Recruiter Chirag
Email chirag.balani@ascendion.com
