Technical Program Manager

Position Title : Technical Program Manager

Start Date : November 4, 2024

Length of Contract : 6 months

Location : US WA Redmond

Pay rate : $90-110 / hr

Role Mandate :

We are currently seeking a TPM on the Optics, Photonics and Light Systems team who will work with a world-class group of researchers and engineers.

This is a full-time position and requires a degree in optics / display, optical / electrical engineering, systems HW engineering, physics, or similar.

Successful candidates must be familiar with display systems or Client optical materials hardware and software and relatively versed in VR or AR display technology trends.

We're also looking for a candidate who is resilient in pursuing solutions to hard and complex problems.

Role Responsibilities (including, but not limited to) :

• Partner with research, engineering, and business teams to define roadmaps, program milestones and deliverables
• Develop and maintain an overall program schedule based on feedback from multiple work streams such as requirements, technical challenges, available resources, and business needs
• Partner with technical leads to establish program strategy, prioritization and to deliver against OKRs
• Identify resources needed and work closely with the team leads to maintain full visibility of multiple projects, ensuring resource gaps are addressed efficiently
• Proactively identify technical, legal, procedural, logistical, and communication issues and drive creative solutions to fix them and manage both technical and programmatic risks
• Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and research development processes in a quickly changing and dynamic environment
• Engage with cross-functional and external teams to identify constraints, dependencies, and risks / issues, and to recommend action plans to address them
• Develop and coordinate communication between internal and external teams and partners
• Report program status, issues, challenges, and help needed with all stakeholders

Must-Have Skills :

• Experience and knowledge of display and / or optics development including manufacturing processes (e.g., cell phones, watches, lasers, etc.)
• Experience with driving programs in a research environment
• Project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group technical collaboration experience
• Experience managing external technical engagements with industry and academia
• Organizational experience, including managing cross-team budgets and headcount
• Systems architecture application experience in technical domains
• Cross-functional peer communications leveraging partnerships and enabling 3rd party ecosystem
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Nice-to-Have Skills :

• Client material synthesis or discovery
• Scaled operations and manufacturing experience make things in the lab and scaling them
• Program Manager side budget planning and budget cycles
• Experience with AR / VR cell phone display, smart watch display, or materials used in consumer electronics

Educational Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree in Display, Systems Engineering, Imaging Science, Electronics, Optics, or Physics (pre-requisite) and 7+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager
• PMP or PMI certification beneficial
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