Cisco Technical Program Manager 

United States, Massachusetts 

690506577

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.
• Act as the key interface between Hardware engineering and Acacia’s other organizations
• Provide timely project status to senior management and cross functional teams
• Help identify and reduce engineering project risks and impediment
• Contribute to Hardware engineering process definition, improvements, and documentation

• Bachelors in relevant field with a minimum +8 years of program or project management experience, or Master's +6 years of program or project management experience, or +3 years of program or project management experience, with at least 5+ years of direct HW management experience
• Program management experience for large complex Hardware and Software projects (Budgets, labor, schedules, etc.)
• Project management experience for large multi-disciplinary engineering projects
• Hardware design product life cycle experience
• Hardware engineering and ISO process documentation experience
• Experience with groundbreaking communication hardware products and governing standards

• Hardware program management experience from 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