Renesas Electronics America

Principal Project/Program Design

Renesas Electronics America$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years of experience in semiconductor industry, ideally with major analog companies.
  • 3-5+ years in hands-on technical program/project management for mixed-signal products.
  • Strong understanding of NPI processes from concept to production, with automotive exposure preferred.
  • Proficient in project management tools like MS Project and Jira; skilled in risk mitigation and execution efficiency.
  • BS in Electrical Engineering or related field required; Masters preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Manage chip development projects from kick-off to customer release in the Configurable Mixed Signal Division.
  • Develop and execute project plans, schedules, and budgets while ensuring deliverables are met.
  • Act as the primary contact for internal teams, ensuring full project ownership and involvement in all development phases.
  • Track project metrics and KPIs, addressing risks and ensuring alignment with financial forecasts and budgets.
  • Build collaboration with cross-functional teams to identify roadblocks and continuously improve project execution.
  • Support demand creation efforts by aligning priorities with market needs and preparing RFIs and RFQs.
  • Effectively communicate project status to stakeholders and escalate issues proactively.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career advancement in technical and business roles across various product groups.
  • Ability to make a tangible impact through innovative product development.
  • Flexible and inclusive work environment with options for remote work and employee resource groups.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and disciplined Project/Program Manager to join our Configurable Mixed Signal Division (CMSD). In this role, you will exhibit full project ownership, acting as the go-to person for internal teams and managing assigned chip development projects from kick-off to customer release. You will lead cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams to deliver complex mixed-signal products, ensuring alignment with Renesas' global methodologies and strategic goals.

Responsibilities
  • Manages assigned chip development projects for the Configurable Mixed Signal Division (CMSD) by leading cross functional geographically dispersed teams that are focused on the delivery of products from kick-off to release for customers.
  • Develops, Defines, and executes project plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables for assigned projects.
  • Exhibit full project ownership, become the go-to person for all internal teams for questions related to assigned projects and have total involvement in all phases of product development process from start to finish.
  • Work with CMSD PMO lead responsible for tracking projects metrics/KPI such as schedule, risks, scope, budget, cost entitlement and manufacturability.
  • Support Annual Operation Planning. Working with CMSD PMO lead to estimate, forecast, and manage individual project as well as program/portfolio spending to ensure actual spending tracks closely with forecast and avoid surprises.
  • Maintain good discipline & practice guidelines, processes, and execution methodologies for team to follow to continuously improve project execution.
  • Build trust and collaborate closely with functional leadership from other functional teams for identifying and removing execution roadblocks, mitigate risks and improve efficiencies for continuously improving project execution.
  • Collaborate with X-functional teams and with peers from other business groups to drive collaboration and harvest best practices and lessons learned to keep CMSD Product group in sync with One Renesas methodologies, tools and systems.
  • Work with demand creation, sales and marketing to align execution and sample priorities with market and customer needs to allow us to compete and win. Guide team to help prepare customer requested RFI, RFQ responses to bid on key business opportunities.
  • Effectively communicate with leadership, with the team and across the organization to keep stakeholders, leadership informed of project status in periodic project reviews.
  • Escalate early to identify and address issues before they start to impact execution metrics, if needed by establishing Tiger teams.
  • Guide team to prepare and effectively report project status updates at management decision point reviews as well as cross functional project progress reviews.


Qualifications

Knowledge & Skills
  • Understanding the fundamentals of design, fabrication, packaging, test, characterization, qualification and mass production of semiconductor products.
  • Delivery of projects to schedule, budget, and quality. First time right mentality with execution
  • Implement project management strategy to challenge status quo and drive higher efficiency of execution to scale up to the roadmap requirements.
  • Continuous focus on mitigating project risk by tracking progress, contingency planning and acting on small signals with high urgency and timely escalation to prevent fire-fighting.
  • Develop a strong disciplined mindset among project teams that understand their role and responsibilities, collaborate with each other and seamlessly executes with continuous focus on improving all execution vectors.
  • Proficient with industry standard project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, SharePoint, FMEA , 8D/Root Cause Analysis, Microsoft OneNote etc.

Experience
  • Experienced semiconductor profession with 5-7+ years of relevant experience working for a major analog semiconductor company.
  • 3-5+ years of hand`s on technical program/project management experience leading teams to develop broad market or custom mix-signal analog products for commercial, industrial or automotive applications. PMP certification is not a requirement but will be plus.
  • 3-5+ years of relevant experience being part of Product line NPI functional teams as a hands-on product, test, validation, design, quality or related function.
  • In depth understanding of new product introduction and product development flow from concept to production release. Exposure to Automotive development processes is a plus.

Education
  • BS, Electrical or Electronics or other Engr disciplines needed in the semiconductor field. Masters preferred.


Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose 'To Make Our Lives Easier.' As the industry's leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.

With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, 'To Make Our Lives Easier.'

At Renesas, you can:
  • Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.
  • Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people's lives easier, safe and secure.
  • Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.

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About Renesas Electronics America

Renesas Electronics America is a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, SoC solutions and a broad range of analog and power devices, with operations spanning research, development, design and manufacturing for a wide range of applications.
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