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 customer’s needs and prevent delays to their internal development and deployment programs
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Regular ”Snack Bash” Social Events with food and drinks!
• Biweekly Wellness webinars plus regular Wellness Week events focused on physical, mental, spiritual and financial wellness as well as career development and social activities
• Arista Gives Back: Employee Engagement Giving Drives and Volunteer events
• Medical, Dental & Vision Plan Coverage
• Life Insurance, AD&D, STD & LTD
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Programs
• PTO & Paid holidays
• 401k Plan
• On-site Gym & Showers
• Secured Bike Lockers
• Secured Bike Lockers
• Flexible hours
• Employee Assistance Benefits that include mental health and backup child and elder care support
• Discounted lunches through WeBox for HQ employees
• Family planning benefits- Strong leadership, communications, problem solving, and communication skills are essential
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, define, document, implement new processes
• Exceptional project management skills
• Significant working knowledge of hardware development
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering or equivalent experience. MS/MBA and PMP desirable
• Experience interfacing with product management, internal cross-functional engineering teams, and sub-tier suppliers
• Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time
• 10+ years of NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience
• Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences, and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders