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Technical Project Manager

Location: Onsite 3 days/week in the Fremont, California office - 843 Auburn Court, Fremont, CA, 94538

Duration: Contract – 3 months to start with potential to extend

Overview: We seek a PMP Certified Technical Project Manager to drive software-centric projects supporting RF radio testing and compliance. This TPM partners with software engineering, RF, lab operations, and compliance teams to translate business requests into well-scoped initiatives, maintain Gantt-based schedules, set up and manage sprints, and ensure on-time, high-quality delivery aligned to internal lab milestones.

Responsibilities:

• Discovery & Scoping:
• Translate requests into epics, stories, and tasks.
• Define acceptance criteria and test-readiness gates.
• Confirm scope, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Planning & Scheduling:
• Build and own Gantt schedules in ClickUp.
• Map dependencies and critical path; manage slack.
• Maintain real-time dashboards; flag risks and slippage.
• Agile Execution:
• Set up and manage sprints; run daily scrums (stand-ups).
• Enforce sprint tasking and prioritization; track burndown.
• Drive incident/bug follow-ups; capture retro learnings.
• RF Test & Compliance Collaboration:
• Coordinate workflows with RF compliance and labs.
• Align software tasks with test plans and lab run sequences.
• Track documentation, approvals, and equipment readiness.
• Stakeholder Communication:
• Publish weekly status: schedule variance, risks, readiness.
• Lead change-control and decision reviews.
• Keep executives and cross-functional teams aligned.
• Process & Metrics:
• Standardize templates and operating rhythms.
• Monitor KPIs: predictability, defect leakage, MTTR.
• Maintain program trackers and risk registers.

Qualifications:

• PMP certification (PMI) — required.
• 5+ years managing technical software projects in hardware/embedded/RF contexts.
• Proficiency with PM software, ClickUp, for planning and dependency management.
• Proven ability to set up and manage sprints; strong prioritization, delegation, and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication; able to articulate trade-offs, risks, and decisions to engineering and leadership.
• Preferred/Experience: Agile delivery experience; familiarity with tools such as Jira or Trello (not required).
• Nice-to-have: Basic familiarity with Python and JavaScript to understand test tooling/automation concepts and data parsing; solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). (This is not a coding role.)

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This is a high PRIORITY requisition.