Cisco Technical Hardware Program Manager 

United States, Massachusetts 

37797633

You are a high-energy Technical Program Manager who loves to work on hardware products. You are a standout colleague with a startup mentality who loves to challenge the status quo with creation and innovation. We are often developing the industry’s first ground breaking coherent optical modules. Our ideal candidate can flourish with minimal guidance and is able to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity

• Build and track NPI program schedules, budgets, and labor requirements.
• Work directly with the Hardware team to release new hardware on time and on budget
• Act as the key interface between Hardware engineering and Acacia’s other organizations
• Provide timely project status to senior management and cross functional teams
• Contribute to Hardware engineering process definition, improvements, and documentation

• Bachelors in relevant field with a minimum +8 years of hardware program/project management experience, or Master's +6 years of hardware program/project management experience, or +3 years of hardware program/project management experience, with at least 5+ years of direct HW management experience
• Hardware design and/or management experience is essential for this role
• Hardware design flow from concept to release experience, including hardware product design life cycle and best practices
• Project management experience for large multi-disciplinary engineering projects (Budgets, labor, schedules, etc.)
• Hardware design product life cycle experience
• Hardware engineering and ISO process documentation experience
• Experience managing groundbreaking networking hardware products and governing standards

• Experience delivering leading edge hardware for a networking or related communications company
• Experience presenting complex technical details to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience leading teams, making decisions, and risk planning
• Experience with conflict resolution in an engineering product development environment
• Experience working with multiple stakeholder groups