Technical Program Manager, Hardware (PEL)

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 customers needs and prevent delays to their internal development and deployment programs.

Who Youll Work With

As a Hardware TPM you will work directly with experienced internal cross-disciplinary engineering team leaders customers and strategic partners to drive hardware product development from concept through release to volume production. You will lead the cross-functional engineering team through the NPI process from concept through release to mass production. Strong leadership communications problem solving and communication skills are essential. 

What Youll Do 

•  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
• 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

Qualifications :

• 10 years of NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience
• Design engineering New Product Introduction and manufacturing experience with rack-mounted data center or enterprise equipment
• Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines including electrical mechanical software diagnostics test and manufacturing engineering team members
• Exceptional project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills.
• Significant working knowledge of hardware development.
• Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative define document implement new processes.
• Experience interfacing with product management internal cross-functional engineering teams and sub-tier suppliers
• Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders.
• Education: Bachelors degree in mechanical electrical industrial engineering or equivalent experience.  MS/MBA and PMP desirable.

Compensation Information 

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $122000 to $200000.

Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors including skills qualifications relevant experience and work location.

The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Aristas Sales Incentive Plan which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible -based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical dental vision wellbeing tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

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Additional Information :

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer.  Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal state or law law.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time