Senior MCU Program Design Leader

Renesas Electronics; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Senior Manager, Project/Program Design for MCU Products to lead customer-facing programs from proposal to production and lifecycle support. You will drive cross-functional execution with engineering, product, and quality teams to ensure successful MCU product launches and ongoing lifecycle management.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing multi-team programs, coordinating global engineers, and delivering against aggressive timelines, serving as

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in semiconductor, embedded systems, automotive electronics, or related industries.
• 5+ years in technical program management, customer program management, or project execution roles.
• Experience managing complex MCU or SoC product development programs.
• Strong understanding of embedded systems, software development lifecycles, and semiconductor product development.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional global teams and customer relationships.
• Excellent communication, leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with project management tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end execution of MCU product programs across silicon, software, systems, validation, manufacturing, and quality teams.
• Build and maintain integrated program schedules with milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Drive execution readiness for silicon bring-up, software releases, validation, qualification, and production launch.
• Track program KPIs including schedule, cost, quality, risk, and resource utilization.
• Identify execution risks proactively and lead mitigation and recovery plans.
• Coordinate global cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, product marketing, applications, quality, and supply chain.
• Ensure alignment between customer commitments and internal execution capabilities.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Customer relationships

Global team coordination

Executive communication

Risk management

Scheduling & milestones

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Job description

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Senior Manager, Project/Program Design for MCU Products to lead customer-facing programs from proposal to production and lifecycle support. You will drive cross-functional execution with engineering, product, and quality teams to ensure successful MCU product launches and ongoing lifecycle management.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing multi-team programs, coordinating global engineers, and delivering against aggressive timelines, serving as