Fellow is seeking an Engineering Program Manager to be an integral member of our Hardware Engineering team and make a big impact on our future products. The ideal candidate loves details, schedules, and making products.
They will deliver timely launches by providing the technical guidance and project management skills to move a project from the concept phase, through prototype development, and into production. They will uncover and mitigate the obstacles to achieve each projects goal.
A successful hire will proactively search for potential technical, logistical and communication issues before they arise and possess an arsenal of proven methodologies for mitigating each in a time-effective manner.
The Engineering Program Manager will accomplish all of this while living out Fellowship Thinking, our leadership principles:
– Fellowship Thinking centers our customers, always.
– Fellowship Thinking views all goals as shared.
– Fellowship Thinking never stops improving.
– Fellowship Thinking says yes, if.
– Fellowship Thinking deliberately seeks equity.
This position is Hybrid and requires this person to be located in the Bay Area.
Responsibilities:
- You will manage the system level development of our new products, interfacing with PD, EE, FW, Operations and our Sales and Marketing teams.
- Define, implement and maintain program plans and requirements including all milestones, monitoring schedules and tracking progress towards completion.
- Manage program timeline and facilitate cross functional communications, including phase gates and entrance/exit criteria
- Provide insight around potential risks and opportunities, initiate resolution and help deliver results.
- Organize and lead project specific meetings with key internal stakeholders, drive decisions and escalate, if needed.
- Contribute to the development processes, procedures, meetings, & norms to enable program management for both NPI and Sustaining work at Fellow.
- Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for staff members required for specific projects or initiatives.
- Closely develop and manage timelines through cross-functional management to ensure timely delivery of launches / sustaining improvements.
- Proactively identify and mitigate product risks.
- Keep stakeholders aligned leading regular meetings and milestone / checkpoint review and consistent updates.
- Dive deep into technical issues including hardware and software development and factory dependencies.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in program management and/or engineering in consumer facing industries
- Hands on experience with hardware development using outside supplier teams
- Direct experience working directly with engineering teams
- New product introduction (NPI) experience in CM and JDM models
- Strong understanding of technical requirements for technology integration
- Proficient at creating and tracking complex and rapid development schedules, managing issues, and tracking bugs
- Exposure to system/device development, build and planning
- Excellent verbal and written communications, with attention to detail
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple programs efficiently
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Bachelors degree in relevant discipline
Benefits:
– Competitive compensation including employee equity plan
– Generous paid time off plan
– 401k with company contribution after 6 months of employment
– Medical/dental/vision insurance
– Better Yourself Wellness credit & Better Your Community donation matching
– Specific benefits for remote employees
– Best coffee anywhere
Our highest goal at Fellow is creating a safe, inclusive, and rewarding environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and thrive. We are committed to building diverse teams and strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
Fellow is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws
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