Technical Program III at Ekman Associates, Inc
Menlo Park, CA 94089
About the Job
Title: Technical Program Manager III
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Ekman Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in developing business, digital, and technology strategy, delivering solutions, and addressing human resource demands.
Summary: We are looking for a skilled and motivated Technical Program Manager to join our team, who will be supporting Core Operating System and Manufacturing initiatives for multiple Wearable products.
Key Experience:
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Ekman Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in developing business, digital, and technology strategy, delivering solutions, and addressing human resource demands.
Summary: We are looking for a skilled and motivated Technical Program Manager to join our team, who will be supporting Core Operating System and Manufacturing initiatives for multiple Wearable products.
Key Experience:
- Technical Project Management expertise; PMP or ITIL.
- Experience aligning requirements, planning and executing consumer electronics manufacturing readiness for factory builds through all phases of a product development process.
- Lead the technical program management of software for manufacturing test to ensure that factory test stations are enabled to validate and bring-up new products.
- Experience in both software engineering and technical program management, with a strong background in consumer device product development.
- Experience in technical program management, consumer product development experience background, and will have demonstrated experience leading complex initiatives across multiple product, software and hardware teams.
- Exhibit exemplary written and verbal communication skills and needs to be able to and drive large bodies of work independently through collaboration with other stakeholders such as System/Product architects, Software Technical Leads, Software and Hardware Managers and Validation domain experts.
- Develop and manage cross-functional programs, facilitating relationships across multiple teams.
- Be the bridge between engineering and manufacturing teams, enabling crisp communication and status reporting.
- Support and coordinate HW/FW/SW bring-up activities.
- Drive visibility, accountability, and execution across areas of Software & Firmware development.
- Understand technology requirements, roadmap, dependencies, evolution, and develop a plan for mitigating risks.
- Establish expertise in the technology area, becoming the go-to escalation point for execution.
- Resolve conflicts, maintain clarity on priorities, and drive progress on execution.
- Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation phases.
- Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and development processes.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred.
- PMP or PMI certification
- 7+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience.
- Experience in software or firmware development for consumer electronics.
- Demonstrated experience leading execution across highly ambiguous, complex products and programs.
- Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
- Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
- Proven communicator who can translate high-level goals into tangible action plans.
- Experience delivering technical programs or products from inception to delivery.
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
