Technical Program Manager

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
• Identify risks on program planning and actively work on mitigation plan with all stake holders 
• 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, and tracked to closure. Ensure issues are escalated to the appropriate functional leaders.
• Facilitate engineering portion of phase gate review meetings