Staff Project/Program Design

Renesas Electronics; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Project/Program Manager for the Central PMO in the Analog & Mixed-Signal Product Group in California. You will own complex chip development projects from kick-off to customer release, leading geographically dispersed teams, defining plans, schedules, budgets, and deliverables while maintaining Renesas' global methodology.

You will collaborate with MID PMO portfolio leads to monitor schedule, risk, and cost, support annual planning, and drive continuous

Qualifications

• Deliver projects to schedule, budget, and quality.
• Proven ability to improve execution efficiency to meet roadmaps.
• Mitigate risk with proactive escalation and cross-functional coordination.
• Experience in semiconductor mixed-signal product development and NPI processes.
• Familiar with key PM tools and KPI tracking across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage chip development projects from kick-off to customer release.
• Develop, define, and execute project plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables.
• Exhibit full project ownership and be the go-to for internal teams.
• Track metrics/KPIs: schedule, risks, scope, budget, manufacturability.
• Support annual operation planning and forecast project spending.
• Maintain disciplined processes and execution methodologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to share best practices.
• Prepare customer RFIs/RFQs and assist bids to win business.
• Escalate early to address issues and report progress to leadership.

Skills

Semiconductor experience

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Communication with leadership

PMP (nice to have)

Education

BS in Electrical or Electronics Engineering

MS/PhD in EE preferred

PMP certification is a plus

Tools

MS Project

Jira

SharePoint

FMEA

Root Cause Analysis

Microsoft OneNote

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated and disciplined Project/Program Manager to join our Central PMO office in Analog & Mixed-Signal Product Group. In this role, you will exhibit full project ownership, acting as the go-to person for internal teams and managing assigned chip development projects from kick-off to customer release. You will lead cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams to deliver complex mixed-signal products, ensuring alignment with Renesas' global methodologies and strategic goals.

Job Description

• Manages assigned chip development projects for the Memory Interface Division (MID) by leading cross functional geographically dispersed teams that are focused on the delivery of products from kick-off to release for customers.
• Develops, Defines, and executes project plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables for assigned projects.
• Exhibit full project ownership, become the go-to person for all internal teams for questions related to assigned projects and have total involvement in all phases of product development process from start to finish.
• Work with MID PMO portfolio lead responsible for tracking projects metrics/KPI such as schedule, risks, scope, budget, cost entitlement and manufacturability.
• Support Annual Operation Planning. Working with MID PM leader to estimate, forecast, and manage individual project as well as program/portfolio spending to ensure actual spending tracks closely with forecast and avoid surprises.
• Maintain good discipline & practice guidelines, processes, and execution methodologies for team to continuously improve project execution.
• Build trust and collaborate closely with functional leadership from other functional teams for identifying and removing execution roadblocks, mitigate risks and improve efficiencies for continuously improving project execution.
• Collaborate with X-functional teams and with peers from other business groups to drive collaboration and harvest best practices and lessons learned to keep MID Product group in sync with One Renesas methodologies, tools and systems.
• Work with demand creation, sales and marketing to align execution and sample priorities with market and customer needs to allow us to compete and win. Guide team to help prepare customer requested RFI, RFQ responses to bid on key business opportunities.
• Effectively communicate with leadership, with the team and across the organization to keep stakeholders, leadership informed of project status in periodic project reviews.
• Escalate early to identify and address issues before they start to impact execution metrics, if needed by establishing Tiger teams.
• Guide team to prepare and effectively report project status updates at management decision point reviews as well as cross functional project progress reviews.

Qualifications

• Delivery of projects to schedule, budget, and quality. First time right mentality with execution
• Implement project management strategy to challenge status quo and drive higher efficiency of execution to scale up to the roadmap requirements.
• Continuous focus on mitigating project risk by tracking progress, contingency planning and acting on small signals with high urgency and timely escalation to prevent firefighting.
• Develop a strong discipline mindset among project teams that understand their role and responsibilities, collaborate with each other and others in the team and seamlessly executes with continuous focus on improving all execution vectors.
• Experienced semiconductor profession with 5-7+ years of relevant experience working for a major analog semiconductor company.
• 3-5+ years of hand`s on technical program/project management experience leading teams to develop broad market or custom mix-signal analog products for commercial, industrial or automotive applications. PMP certification is not a requirement but will be plus
• 3-5+ years of relevant experience being part of Product line NPI functional teams as a hands-on product, test, validation, design, quality or related function
• In depth understanding of new product introduction and product development flow from concept to production release. Exposure to Automotive process is a plus
• Proficient with industry standard project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, SharePoint, FMEA, Root Cause Analysis, Microsoft OneNote
• BS, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, Masters or PhD EE is preferred

Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $157,000K-$197,000K. This position is also eligible for commission pay. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

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