Senior Program Manager, Hardware
Senior Program Manager, Hardware
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Job Description
The Senior Program Manager is an engaging and challenging opportunity that is instrumental in driving the creation and launch of groundbreaking smart home products. We are looking for a creative customerobsessed and resultsoriented Senior Program Manager who wants to live on the edge of technologies that bring software and hardware together within the connected home. We are seeking someone to support our efforts in building worldclass mobile and hardware solutions for our directtoconsumer products as well as our business partners. Your role involves leading software development efforts from initial concept through to market release with a focus on pioneering new technologies and features in the connected devices space.
RESPONSIBLIITIES:
- Helping with crossfunctional planning efforts from concept to launch required to introduce new hardware products into our software platforms.
- Working closely with software product managers to remove obstacles and organize team activities.
- Leading meetings and working sessions to help unblock product development efforts.
- Helping create and revise achievable plans to deliver hardware products (supported by the software platform) to market in coordination with commercial hardware product managers hardware project managers and software product teams.
- Working closely with and supporting software product owners and their agile teams to build a plan of record for all software integration efforts including any new feature development quality assurance testing and field trials. Helping replan efforts when necessary based on program realities.
- Supporting and using common templates terminology and definitions for all phases of the software and hardware development processes.
- Working with functions external to product development (marketing customer support sales) to coordinate needs directly associated with new product launches including installation guides support articles etc.
- Working with platform release managers (mobile server) to build release schedules for new product initiatives.
- Executing and delivering customer value in accordance with the company innovation process.
- Participating in key rituals required as part of the company New Product Introduction process: discovery process team composition. Helping understand and plan staffing needs working with functional managers across the product development organization to compose balanced effective scrum teams.
- Build relationships and communicate effectively with other departments such as marketing sales hardware and commercial product managers to ensure that everyone is on the same page.
- Surface risks coaching on mitigating those risks and giving broad management insight into those risks.
- Facilitating reporting against plan for all assigned initiatives to management and stakeholders through regular program reviews.
- Serving as an escalation for product teams to help manage scope time plans and resources.
- Remaining flexible to shifting project priorities and workload adjustments.
- Focus for this role will be launching new connected products within our Water portfolio.
Qualifications :
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 710 years of experience with project management.
- 3 years of experience in software project or program management with a strong preference for experience in smart home technology and new product development.
- Working knowledge using Jira for planning dashboard creation issue management and report generation.
- Wellversed in Agile Principles scrum master certification a plus.
- Willingness to travel up to approximately 15% of the time both domestically and internationally.
- Comprehensive understanding of software development processes and lifestyle.
- Strong formal project management analytical and problemsolving skills.
- Expert communication influence and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to help organize complex efforts.
- Drive to ship worldclass products.
- Ability to grasp program details (technical functional operational) and communicate them at all levels of the organization.
- Familiarity with complex software development including mobile backend and firmware.
- Working knowledge of industry standard practices for developing and manufacturing hardware.
- Experience with IoT and networked products.
- Experience using data and metrics to assess product health to help drive improvements.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and be flexible.
- Obsession with accuracy and detailed issue reporting.
- Ability to stay calm under pressure.
Additional Information :
Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $93000 $143000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range or be above or below the range based on factors including but not limited to education training experience professional achievement business need and location. In addition to base salary employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a rolebased sales incentive plan.
At Fortune Brands we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates unique needs. This includes robust health plans a marketleading 401(k) program with a company contribution product discounts flexible time off benefits (including halfday summer Fridays per policy) inclusive fertility / adoption benefits and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates feeling of belonging at work.
Fortune Brands is a brand innovation and channel leader focused on exciting supercharged categories in the home products security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen House of Rohl Aqualisa SpringWell ThermaTru Larson Fiberon Master Lock SentrySafe and Yale residential.
Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN
Equal Employment Opportunity:
FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin ancestry age disability marital status protected veteran status sexual orientation genetic history or information or any other legally protected characteristic.
Reasonable Accommodations:
FBIN is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process please contact us at and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Resumes submitted to this email address will not be responded to.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
