Key Responsibilities:

Develop and manage detailed schedules, budgets, resource needs, and work plans for technical deliverables on complex, multi-faceted R&D and Product Engineering programs
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with technical teams on commercial development projects. Serve as “connective tissue” to organize and coordinate with multiple technical teams
Lead regular project reviews and status meetings to determine progress and address any questions, challenges, or risks regarding projects
Ensure timely and effective communication of strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress between technical teams, partners, product management, and leadership
Manage execution of annual plan through the year by working with technical teams, asset management, materials management, and finance.
Identify opportunities to accelerate schedule or develop needed technologies. Coordinate gathering requirements, drafting statements of work, and evaluation of potential new projects.
Lead meetings for large technical trades, critical decisions, and end-of-task retrospectives
Improve on program management process for budgeting, planning, milestone and schedule tracking, risk management, change tracking, and lessons learned
Drive execution of complex development programs for on-schedule completion to maintain technology and product roadmaps while managing a sustainable workflow pace
Ability to travel up to 25%

YOU MUST HAVE:

Bachelor's degree minimum
Minimum 5 years’ experience in milestone driven technical program management and coordination for delivery of research and development hardware to internal technical customers
Minimum 5 years’ experience in Manufacturing readiness levels (MRL) and manufacturing risk assessments
Minimum 5 years’ experience with manufacturing and quality metrics (yield, capacity, throughput, etc.)
Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status
Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.

WE VALUE:

Bachelor's degree in a STEM field
Understanding of configuration management
Prior experience delivery of first-of-a-kind projects and products
Comfortable applying project management practices to the ambiguity of R&D projects
Prior experience with Tooling, equipment, workforce, facility, Materials planning, lead times and MRP
Capital project management experience
Supplier management experience
Strong bias to action, attention to detail, and continuous improvement mindset
Strong familiarity with project management, development, and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Slack, MS365 suite, Smartsheets, and Microsoft Project.
Prior experience using waterfall, lean, agile or Kanban program management methodologies and tailoring practices to get the best results.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience working with micro-device technologies for quantum computing systems
Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
Experience working with remote teams

130000 - 150000 USD a year