Sr. Program Manager

Sr. Program Manager

The Sr. Program Manager helps keep the full program coordinated across technical, operational, and business functions, including risk, cost, schedule, readiness, and open commitments. The Sr. Program Manager proactively identifies issues before they threaten product objectives and works across functional organizations to drive resolution. The right candidate will bring technical breadth and credibility, high organization, attention to detail, and the ability to influence teams that do not report directly to them. Successful candidates come from Systems Engineering, Technical Program Management, New Product Introduction (NPI), Product Management, Product Lifecycle Management, or Engineering Leadership roles within semiconductor capital equipment organizations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Keep risk, cost, schedule, readiness, and open commitments visible.
• Identify risks early and coordinate mitigation with clear owners.
• Review accountability, clarify priorities, and advance critical deliverables.
• Keep cross-functional commitments, dependencies, and resources aligned.
• Track schedules and help drive recovery when commitments slip.
• Monitor COGS, cost drivers, and meaningful cost changes.
• Ensure required documentation, test plans, training, and release deliverables are completed.
• Where policy does not exist, help define and roll out new policies to cover the need.
• Help new processes become normal operating behavior.
• Coordinate readiness for milestones, releases, transitions, deployments, and qualifications.
• Separate task completion from true operational readiness.
• Build technical breadth, challenge assumptions, and communicate risks and tradeoffs.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Materials Science, Systems Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
• 10+ years in semiconductor capital equipment, manufacturing, metrology, inspection, process control, systems engineering, NPI, product lifecycle management, or related technical industries.
• Experience leading large cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Experience managing product or program risk, cost, and schedule.
• Strong process discipline and attention to detail.
• Ability to spot ownership gaps, missing deliverables, hidden dependencies, and execution risks early.
• Technical breadth across software, hardware, systems, applications, manufacturing, quality, service, and supply chain.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to influence technical and operational leaders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with optical metrology, inspection, APC, yield management, or semiconductor process equipment.
• Experience supporting foundry, logic, memory, or advanced packaging customers.
• Experience with NPI, product lifecycle, release, qualification, manufacturing readiness, or field deployment.
• Ability to connect COGS, gross margin, cost reduction, and technical tradeoffs.
• Experience building practical operating procedures, governance, or execution frameworks.
• Some formal leadership experience with strong cross-functional execution leadership.