Technical Program Manager VPG

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Product Operations is looking for a Technical Program Manager to help bring groundbreaking products to life within the Vision Products Group. You will join the new product introduction team and partner with cross-functional groups across design quality test and global supply to mature the manufacturing process and drive operational excellence from first build through mass production. This is a role for someone who understands the trade-offs between how a product is designed and how it is built who can turn production data into decisions and who can influence technical direction across partners and manufacturing sites often without formal authority and often from a distance. As you grow in the role you will look beyond your immediate assignments to shape improvements that benefit the wider organization.n

nWork within the new product introduction team alongside design quality test and global supply managers to deliver top-quality products and drive precision into every stage of the technical operational functions across manufacturing including process design assembly automation test and yield and lead factory setup for your areas of Design for Assembly (DFA) feedback to cross-functional partners weighing manufacturing trade-offs to make the product easier to build without compromising up scalable sustainable high-volume production processes and shepherd them from prototype through production and quality data to identify issues lead root cause and failure analysis with cross-functional partners and drive the corrective actions that resolve beyond your immediate assignments to identify process and operational improvements that benefit the wider organization and carry them through to and deliver status reporting and presentations to leadership including executive as needed to support builds at manufacturing sites up to 25 percent.

BS in engineering or a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.n7 years of experience in a technical role within operations manufacturing or experience bringing a product to knowledge of manufacturing and quality processes with the ability to reason from first principles about how a process behaves and potential using statistical and data analysis tools to inform problem-solving skills including root cause and failure analysis and the ability to work effectively across communication and project management skills.

Advanced degree in an engineering field or an of experience in technical operations or new product introduction typically demonstrated over 10 or more record of introducing new products to manufacturing and ramping electronics or complex assemblies into high-volume ability to influence technical decisions and drive cross-functional teams to difficult calls without formal authority including aligning partners remotely across sites and time record of identifying process or operational improvements beyond assigned scope and driving them to with precision assembly optics consumer electronics or AR/VR products. Experience ramping complex products in adjacent industries such as medical devices aerospace or industrial products is equally ability to communicate progress and risk to senior leadership often at the VP level or above.