Please, no third parties. Permanent residents only.
This is a hybrid role in Durham, NC, and no relocation assistance is available.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead integrated engineering programs that span hardware development, software delivery, and complete system-level initiatives, ensuring alignment across all participating teams.
- Establish and maintain comprehensive program plans, including timelines, interdependencies, risk registers, and milestone tracking across concurrent technical workstreams.
- Guide new product introduction (NPI) efforts from early-stage development through production and launch readiness, coordinating readiness criteria across engineering, quality, and operations.
- Partner with internal teams to prepare for and navigate external certification and compliance activities, ensuring required documentation, validation efforts, and engineering reviews are completed on schedule.
- Drive continuous improvement of engineering program management frameworks, introducing scalable processes, tools, and reporting structures that increase predictability and execution transparency.
- Facilitate technical design reviews, cross-functional checkpoints, and executive-level status updates, enabling informed decision-making and timely issue resolution.
- Identify program risks, technical tradeoffs, and resource constraints early; present leadership with clear mitigation strategies and data-backed recommendations.
- Act as the central coordination point between engineering, quality assurance, operations, and partner organizations to maintain alignment and delivery momentum.
Skills & Requirements:
- Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-disciplinary technical programs that include both hardware and software components.
- Experience supporting structured product development lifecycles, including milestone-based delivery models.
- Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous environments while driving measurable forward progress.
- Strong program planning capabilities, including schedule development, dependency mapping, risk assessment, and cross-functional coordination.
- Working knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management principles and structured engineering governance models.
- Practical experience leveraging Atlassian platforms such as Jira and Confluence for task management, documentation control, reporting, and execution visibility.
- Effective communicator capable of engaging engineers, technical leads, senior stakeholders, and non-technical partners.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Bachelors degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Skills:
- PMP or comparable program management certification is preferred.
- Experience with the preparation and support for audits, certifications, and compliance.
- Experience with new product introduction (NPI) in an engineering, manufacturing, or similar environment.
tags: senior program manager, senior engineering program manager, senior engineering product manager, senior engineering project manager
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