Technical Program Manager, Hardware - Sydney

Who You'll Work With
Arista is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager.  This is a critical role, ensuring that Arista customer driven programs complete milestone deliverables to meet the customer’s needs and prevent delays to their internal development and deployment programs. As a Technical Program Manager you will work directly with experienced internal cross-disciplinary engineering team leaders, customers, and strategic partners to drive hardware product development from planning, design, validation, qualification, through release to volume production. You will lead the cross-functional engineering team through the NPI product lifecycle phases and the associated design and phase gate reviews. Strong leadership, communications, problem solving, and communication skills are essential.

What You'll Do
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Creating statement of work (SoW) and product requirement documents (PRD) for complex technical programs

• Owns and facilitates weekly cross-functional engineering team meetings.

• Interface with key customers and strategic partners to develop program plans including negotiating schedules, milestone deliverables, prototype allocations, and feature set.

• Lead a cross-functional team from HW, SW, Central, and Diagnostic engineering, manufacturing engineering, product management, ODM/JDM partners, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market.

• You will be responsible for tracking and reporting on the cross-functional design engineering validation, and qualification status of your programs, as well as identifying and solving any concerns prior to them causing impact.  

• Create a master schedule that captures and inter-connects the key cross-functional deliverables as defined by the product development lifecycle and ensure the team stays on track to meet program milestones.

• Lead program design review and bug scrub meetings

• Drive, coordinate, and monitor engineering programs including scheduling, planning, product and project cost analysis, and milestone checkpoint reviews.

• Drive cross-functional issue resolution ensuring issues are identified, assigned owners, andtracked to closure. Ensure issues are escalated to the appropriate functional leaders.

• Facilitate engineering portion of phase gate review meetings