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About the role
- Technical Program Manager leading planning and implementation of IoT projects in a technology company. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative IoT solutions on time and within budget.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and implementation of IoT projects, ensuring they meet the specified requirements, timelines, and budgets
- Help facilitate agile ceremonies (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and drive continuous process improvements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and sales, to define project scopes, goals, and deliverables
- Translate high-level requirements into detailed project plans with milestones, risks, and dependencies clearly defined
- Track and manage project scope as defined in the Statement of Work (SoW); identify when customer requests fall outside of scope and coordinate with internal stakeholders to document and communicate the impact
- Direct interaction with customers and coordination of their requests with engineering teams
- Collaborate with individuals on project plans, including resource allocation, timelines and deliverables, and risk management strategies
- Coordinate and facilitate communication across all project phases, ensuring clear and timely information flow among team members and stakeholders (both internal and external)
- Monitor and report on project progress, including milestones, financial health, and potential challenges to senior management and relevant stakeholders
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the project team
- Actively review and verify deliverables to confirm they’re ready for customer evaluation
- For programs that have hardware components, occasional interaction with contract manufacturing partners for order placement, problem resolution, or working through scheduling challenges.
- Demonstrate the program’s given set of deliverables to business users and other key stakeholders in presentations, video calls, etc.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field
- At least 5-7 years as a project manager in the technology sector, preference for candidates with a strong technical background with an understanding of IoT technologies, platforms, and protocols
- Excellent project management skills, including experience with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives
- Exceptional critical thinking skills and the ability to work under pressure
- Strong oral and written communication and people skills, with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proactive approach to problem resolution and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor’s degree
- Electrical engineering background is preferred
- PMI-ACP Certified
- Must be willing to travel
- Agile / Scrum experience using Azure DevOps
- Experience working with device technologies such as BLE, wireless, and LTE Cellular
- Electronic contract manufacturing background
- Cloud development-related experience using Azure
Benefits
- Salary, company bonus, medical, dental, vision, cyber security, and pet insurance
- Wellness benefit
- 401k plan with match
- Flexible work from home
- 2 weeks annually ability to work anywhere in the world
- Parental leave
- Growth and development opportunities
- Flex-time off
- Volunteer time off
- Company paid life insurance
- Friday Lunch & Learns
- Unlimited snacks, fruit, coffee, and sodas!
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