Full Job Description
Join Keysight's technology order fufillment organization and own the execution of multiple signal generator new product introduction (NPI) programs at once. You will carry each program from concept and definition through development, verification, manufacturing readiness, and release, keeping schedules, resources, risks, and cross-functional dependencies visible and under control.
This is a hands-on execution role. Your success is measured by signal generator programs that hit their committed milestones and release on time with quality.
**Responsibilities**
**Role overview**
As a Program Manager for Signal Generator NPI, you are accountable for the end-to-end planning and execution of several concurrent signal generator development programs. You will manage multiple programs at a time, from program kickoff through production release and early-life support.
**Key responsibilities**
- Program planning: Define program scope, integrated schedules, milestones, phase-gate deliverables, and resource plans for each signal generator NPI, aligned with the product roadmap and business commitments.
- Execution and governance: Run the program cadence, including core-team meetings, phase-gate reviews, and milestone tracking. Drive issue resolution and timely decisions, and manage dependencies across hardware, firmware, software, mechanical, and manufacturing workstreams.
- Risk and dependency management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate schedule, technical, supply, and resource risks. Maintain risk registers and recovery plans, and adapt program plans as conditions change.
- Cross-functional coordination: Coordinate verification and validation, regulatory and compliance activities, manufacturing readiness, proto and pilot builds, and release-to-production handoffs with the functions that own them.
- Status and reporting: Define and track program health indicators (scope, schedule, cost, quality). Publish clear, consistent status to the core team, R&D and TOF management, and division leadership, and escalate with options when a program is at risk.
- Change management: Manage scope, schedule, and requirement changes through a disciplined change-control process, quantifying impact before commitments move.
- Process improvement: Apply and continuously improve Keysight's NPI and processes, templates, and lessons learned across the signal generator program portfolio.
- Team alignment: Set expectations, support accountability, resolve conflicts constructively, and keep teams aligned through technical complexity and shifting priorities.
**Qualifications**
**Required**
- Bachelor's or master's degree in an engineering field.
- 8+ years of experience in program or project management in a hardware product development or new product introduction environment.
- Proven track record of planning and delivering complex, cross-functional hardware programs through NPI process, with strong proficiency in scheduling, critical-path management, resource planning, and risk management.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs and shared engineering resources in a fast-paced environment.
- Working knowledge of the hardware development life cycle, including design verification, manufacturing readiness, and release to production.
- Strong written and verbal communication, organization, and prioritization skills, including the ability to develop clear status and escalation materials for leadership.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and consensus-building skills across engineering, manufacturing, and marketing functions.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and experience with Microsoft Project or an equivalent scheduling tool.
- PMP certification.
**Preferred**
- Experience in test and measurement, RF/microwave, or signal generator product development.
- Working knowledge of RF and microwave instrument architecture and test.
- Experience working with manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams on pilot builds and production ramp.
- Familiarity with Agile practices for firmware and software workstreams within a hardware program.
**Why This Role Matters**
Signal generators are a core Keysight product line, and each new introduction depends on hardware, firmware, software, manufacturing, and marketing landing together on a committed date.
By driving disciplined planning, predictable execution, and cross-functional alignment across several programs at once, you ensure signal generator commitments are delivered on time and with quality, and give leadership a clear, trustworthy view of where every program stands.
Santa Rosa, CA Pay Range: MIN $119,000.00 - MAX $199,000.00
