Job Title: Engineering Program Manager (Program Manager II)
Duration: 6+ Months Contract to Hire
Location: Cupertino CA
Payrate: $60-70/hr (Based on experience)
Description:
- Are you passionate about developing phenomenal products?
- Help us design the next of product merchandising elements and join us in developing creative solutions to deep engineering challenges!
- You will become an integral part of a team that champions engineering excellence, creativity and innovation.
- In this highly collaborative role, you will lead project management efforts between a variety of Apple teams to build innovative merchandising elements for Apple Retail and Channel Partner stores.
- Our team is seeking a program manager to help drive collaborative discussion between engineering, design, business and operations teams in support of several new product areas.
Responsibilities:
- In this dynamic position, you will coordinate and drive early engagements on product architecture, feature definition and program execution.
- We are looking for someone who is flexible and can respond quickly, energetically, and enthusiastically to dynamic project needs.
- The EPM will interact with all engineering, design and development support disciplines to create exceptional products.
- Establish strategic relationships and represent the project and organization with cross-functional partners.
- Collaborate with Design, Engineering, Legal, Security, Creative, Industrial Design, Retail and Channel Business Operations and other organizations.
- Establish a working cross-functional program plan.
- Identify and handle program cross-functional dependencies between teams.
- Communicate development and feasibility needs, establishing milestones for checkpoints and status updates and drive alignment across the organization and between teams.
- Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks and track risks.
- Provide regular program status updates and communicate critical issues as needed to management.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 5 years of project management experience
- Exceptional ability to build relationships, build cross-functional teams and exert effective influence in a matrix organization.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Agile (BOM) proficiency
- General Administrative Tasks
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5 years of managing cross-functional teams in a matrix organization.
- 5 years of product development experience.
- History of managing go to market activities.
- Ability to think strategically, while driving tactical details.
- Experience working with teams of diverse technical backgrounds and quickly learning from them.
Skills: MacOS & iOS
Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.