Director of Engineering Program Management

Director of Engineering Program ManagementAs the director of Engineering Program Management, you are ultimately responsible for on-time execution of all new products in order to meet critical milestones and customer commitments.Key ResponsibilitiesDirect and manage project development and oversee implementation of the project.Plan project execution and collaborate with various stakeholders on resource and task assignments.Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using a phase-gate approach.Set and communicate project milestones expectations to the team and stakeholders in a timely manner.Identify and highlight issues and conflicts within the projects to the stakeholders and management.Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.Coordinate activities, priorities, meetings, and communications ensuring alignment across all cross-functional teams while optimizing performance at a project level.Generate and monitor project risk mitigation plan and communicate it with the stakeholders and management.Continuously evaluate risks and take appropriate actions to mitigate.Monitor the bug reporting tool for effective coverage and timely resolution.Drive signoffs on various stages of the development and check for compliances.Run biweekly meetings with the management on overall status of the projects.Manage the project execution and trigger out-of-bounds flag in case execution metrics crosses acceptable boundaries.Help the team to compile a reporting tool, to extract and highlight the project metrics for an efficient and real time reporting purpose.Serve as the focal point for internal projects communications and communication with customers on the schedule.Drive the culture of continuous improvement by maintaining and running lesson learned sessions.Drive various teams to generate and maintain all documentation to comply with various standards and spec.RequirementsBachelor's degree or higher10+ years of industry experience on project management, preferably with some background in silicon development or electronic system design.Proven success in leading multi-functional engineering team.Strong planning and organizing skills to set and manage priorities, adopt to changes and drive timely closures.Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to manage the detail to the target audience.Experience with IC product development for automotive market from concept to release.