Sr. Technical Program Manager, Hardware NPI, Edge & High Performance Accelerator Servers for AI/ML

About the role

As a member of the Server Hardware Engineering team, you will own and lead the design and development of server products utilizing a wide range of design and manufacturing partners.

You will work closely with our customers to understand their technical needs and business goals, leveraging your experience with server design and the knowledge of various teams to architect the solutions that we will deploy at scale.

To deliver your products, you will work with an interdisciplinary team of component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration engineers, and lead our design and manufacturing partners to bring these servers to the data center.

After launch, you will oversee the fleet of servers you develop, monitoring their quality and how they are meeting the customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• You manage large, complex New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, delivering critical solutions, significant improvements, new mechanisms, or deprecating systems that are no longer needed.
• You successfully manage all stages (from concept to launch).
• You understand the architecture of the hardware systems you own. You influence team technical priorities and business strategy through data-driven contributions.
• You communicate ideas effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences including Directors and VPs. You foster a constructive dialogue, harmonize discordant views, and lead the resolution of contentious issues (build consensus).
• You are a simplifier. You judiciously add, refine, and remove procedures. By applying project management best practices, you increase the productivity and effectiveness of the teams you work with.

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 7+ years of analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentations experience
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering
• Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience managing complex hardware systems and programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Experience owning and driving complex server system NPIs such as compute, gpu (AI/ML), or storage servers
• Extensive experience managing complex hardware systems and programs, building processes, complicated schedules with many dependencies, identifying risks, trade-offs, designing 2-way doors