Project Manager III

Position: Project Manager III
Location: Cupertino, California
Duration: Contract

Job Overview:
As a Project Manager within the Hardware Engineering organization, you will be responsible for managing the development and implementation process for the Standalone Accessories team. In this role, you will drive the day-to-day activities to meet the overall program objectives in support of the Packaging design group, development planning, and validation cycles.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and direct all resources required to execute successful projects.
• Create and maintain project timelines.
• Collaborate and facilitate communication across engineering managers, operations managers, marketing managers, and OEM partners to meet schedule and quality goals.
• Lead cross-functional communication between project teams and external vendors.
• Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management.
• Offer multiple levels of status updates across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to executive management.
• Possess strong presentation skills.
• Understand technical issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key stakeholders for decision-making.
• Oversee Material Availability (CTB) activities for all builds, including overseeing the team that drives factory data and accuracy.
• Assist in managing status reports, communications, and escalations.
• Manage logistics of parts for builds.
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Drive product integration and ensure trade compliance and consumer laws are met, enabling the standalone accessory product to ship worldwide.
• Develop standalone accessory product timelines based on AMC and align schedules and deliverables with cross-functional teams and CM partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop product and SKU optimization/reduction strategies.
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional standalone accessory meetings with key stakeholders.
• Create and maintain project scope and Pulse page on a daily basis to provide the most recent program updates.
• Provide and track program updates and action items via Pulse to communicate and align priorities with cross-functional teams.
• Drive, manage, and review First Article Inspections (FAIs) with cross-functional key stakeholders.
• Continuously sync with CMs to meet and exceed overall quality expectations.
• Oversee and own product management for all standalone accessories from cradle to grave (NPI to EOL), driving consensus and accountability with key stakeholders.
• Review and approve as a key stakeholder in the Customer Experience Testing (CET) for OK2Ship to enable a successful product launch.
• Manage project disclosures to ensure new product security.
• Ensure product data integrity (ECOs, AML NRCs, APNs, MPN BOMs).
• Administer FAI tools (setup).
• Manage end-to-end lifecycle for sustaining standalone accessories.

Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree or 5+ years of industry experience.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks, dates, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience.
• Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.
• Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity.
• Experience with portable consumer electronics devices and familiarity with mechanical enclosure parts.
• Detailed knowledge of product development processes and a strong understanding of manufacturing processes.
• Experience interfacing with Operations, Mechanical Engineering/Design, and Marketing.

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Pay Range: $70 - $77

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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