Renesas Electronics America

Senior Staff Project/Program Design

Renesas Electronics America$157K — $197K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years of experience in semiconductor industry, preferably with analog products
  • 3-5+ years in technical program/project management roles
  • Strong focus on risk mitigation and agile response to issues
  • Proficiency in project management tools like MS Project and Jira
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering; advanced degree preferred
  • Experience in NPI functional teams related to product development
  • Solid understanding of project delivery within schedule and budget constraints

Responsibilities

  • Manage chip development projects from concept to release within the MID division
  • Define and execute project plans, schedules, and budgets
  • Serve as the primary contact for all project-related inquiries across internal teams
  • Track project metrics including KPIs related to schedule and budget
  • Collaborate with leadership to forecast and manage spending effectively
  • Promote best practices and continuous improvement in project execution methodologies
  • Communicate project statuses and risks to stakeholders during periodic reviews

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Exposure to diverse projects within cutting-edge technology
  • Ability to work in cross-functional teams and influence product direction.
Full Job Description
  • Manages assigned chip development projects for the Memory Interface Division (MID) 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 MID PMO portfolio lead responsible for tracking projects metrics/KPI such as schedule, risks, scope, budget, cost entitlement and manufacturability.
  • Support Annual Operation Planning. Working with MID PM leader 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 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 MID 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
  • 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 firefighting.
  • Develop a strong discipline mindset among project teams that understand their role and responsibilities, collaborate with each other and others in the team and seamlessly executes with continuous focus on improving all execution vectors.
  • 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 process is a plus
  • Proficient with industry standard project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, SharePoint, FMEA, Root Cause Analysis, Microsoft OneNote
  • BS, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, Masters or PhD EE is preferred


Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $157,000K-$197,000K. This position is also eligible for commission pay. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the 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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