We are seeking an experienced Principal Project Manager to lead complex multi-site analog and mixed-signal semiconductor IC development projects from concept to mass production. You will own scope, schedule, cost, quality and risk, orchestrating cross鈥慺unctional deliverables, such as Design, Test, Validation, Quality and Operations. Your leadership skills ensure on-time execution and delivery readiness for the customer in compliance with the Renesas development process and the automotive and functional safety standards ISO 26262 and IATF 16949.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Management & Leadership: Represent your project across the matrix organization and lead it from concept to mass production release, driving execution across all disciplines and stakeholders.
- Project Planning: Drive comprehensive project planning with the team by ensuring committed and robust timelines, dependencies and critical path, and resource and cost planning.
- Project Execution: Ensure effective project execution by driving task ownership, preventing scope creep, and managing deviations and risks effectively.
- Escalate unresolved issues threatening project goals with clear problem statements and options, ensuring timely decisions.
- Risk & Deviation Management: Proactively identify and manage risks and plan deviations, drive mitigations and corrective actions to minimize impact and prevent recurrence.
- Change Management: Manage project change requests, assess impact on scope/schedule/cost with the team, secure approvals by the stakeholders and communicate decisions.
- Communication & Stakeholder Management: Act as primary point of contact within the organization, ensure clear, consistent communication so all team members and stakeholders understand project goals, plans, risks, and decisions across disciplines.
Core Competencies & Behaviors
- Strategic Execution: Collaborate with the product lines to translate product roadmaps into clear, prioritized and executable project plans.
- Leadership: Align diverse stakeholders and resolves conflicts; excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a multi-site matrix organization.
- Ownership & Accountability: Demonstrate proactive, self鈥憇tarting attitude, challenge and drive for team commitment and results in dynamic environments.
- Steering Decisions: Use data and engineering evidence to steer decisions to clear results; anticipates risks and creates resilient plans.
- Escalation: Escalate effectively when goals are threatened; frame options and recommendations for leadership decisions.
- Leading by example: Support other team members to strengthen leadership skills and ensure effective project execution.
- Methodology: Influence and develop new project management methodologies and foster a culture of continuous improvement.