New Product Introduction Operations Program Manager
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in NPI Operations, supply chain management, manufacturing operations, operations engineering, or CM/OEM management.
- Ability to drive solutions and collaborate effectively across multiple cross-functional groups and supply chain management teams.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex information to leadership teams.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
About the job
A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
As a New Product Introduction (NPI) Program Manager, you will be the operations leader to launch new products with heavy emphasis on all development activities and ensure transition to production within quality, cost and capacity parameters.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
- Drive ramp readiness with engineering, operations and Contract Manufacturer teams, (i.e. material availability, capacity readiness, transition plans).
- Lead Contract Manufacturing (CM) Operations team in planning and executing development builds and new product ramps and follow through all engineering development builds and influence product manufacturability, testability, and supply chain responsiveness in pursuit of high quality, low cost and maximum flexibility.
- Drive cross-functional teams to optimize supply chain, while providing strategic plans to balance risks, changes in schedule or demand.
- Manage all operations-related communications, upward and downward, throughout the organization. Escalate key issues and present options for resolution to the cross-functional executive teams.
- Oversee and prioritize risk mitigation strategies, (i.e. tech assessment, new tech application, cost variance, supply chain review, etc.), and manage equipment budget at the factory and provide support for products in a sustaining environment.
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