Strategic Growth Program Manager - Advanced Packaging

Qnity; Wilmington (DE); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Qnity is seeking a highly driven Strategic Growth Program Manager to organize and lead a portfolio of enterprise-priority growth and incubation programs supporting the Advanced Packaging strategy.

The successful candidate will convert strategic opportunities into well-structured, executable programs; integrate work across businesses and functions; and create the operating rhythm, governance, and accountability required to accelerate the highest-potential opportunities toward commercialization.

Qualifications

• Experience turning strategic priorities into structured, executable programs.
• Proven record of managing cross-functional enterprise programs.
• Strong governance, milestone, risk and resource management.

Responsibilities

• Organize and lead a portfolio of enterprise-level strategic growth programs.
• Translate priorities into integrated program plans with milestones and owners.
• Establish governance forums, dashboards, and progress reporting.
• Drive alignment across Marketing, Technology, Operations, Finance and leadership.
• Maintain accountability, remove barriers, and ensure timely delivery.
• Prepare concise executive reports and portfolio reviews.
• Synthesize evidence to inform go/stop/pivot decisions.
• Maintain momentum amid ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Build cross-functional teams with clear roles and accountability.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Execution discipline

Portfolio thinking

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Influence in matrix organizations

Learning agility

Problem solving

Education

Advanced degree in chemistry, materials science, engineering, or related field

Job description

Are you looking to power the next leap in the exciting world of advanced electronics? Do you want to help solve problems that drive success in the rapidly evolving technology and connectivity landscape? Then bring your problem-solving, passion, and creativity to help us power the next leap in electronics.

At Qnity, we’re more than a global leader in materials and solutions for advanced electronics and high-tech industries – we’re a tight-knit team that is motivated by new possibilities, and always up for a challenge. All our dedicated teams contribute to making cutting-edge technology possible. We value forward-thinking challengers, boundary-pushers, and diverse perspectives across all our departments, because we know we play a critical role in the world enabling faster progress for all. Learn how you can start or jumpstart your career with us.

Strategic Growth Program Manager - Advanced Packaging

Position Overview

Qnity is seeking a highly driven Strategic Growth Program Manager to organize and lead a portfolio of enterprise-priority growth and incubation programs supporting the Advanced Packaging strategy. The successful candidate will convert strategic opportunities into well-structured, executable programs; integrate work across businesses and functions; and create the operating rhythm, governance, and accountability required to accelerate the highest-potential opportunities toward commercialization.

This role requires exceptional program organization, executive-level reporting, and a strong bias for action. The Program Manager will establish clear objectives, workstreams, milestones, decision points, resource requirements, dependencies, risks, and success metrics; provide concise and transparent portfolio reporting; and actively drive teams to resolve issues, make timely decisions, and deliver commitments.

The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking, disciplined execution, high energy, and influential leadership in a global, matrixed organization and an uncertain, rapidly evolving market environment.

The preferred work location for this role is hybrid at Qnity’s headquarters in Wilmington, DE. Other locations will be considered, with particular interest in candidates based in the Bay Area, Arizona, Taiwan, and other locations aligned with Qnity’s footprint and the broader semiconductor and advanced packaging industry.

Reporting Relationship and Level

Reports to the VPGM of Qnity’s Advanced Circuits and Packaging business.

Key Responsibilities

• Organize and lead a portfolio of enterprise-level strategic growth and incubation programs aligned with Qnity’s Advanced Packaging strategy, from opportunity framing through validation, scale-up, and transition to the receiving business.
• Translate strategic priorities into integrated program plans with clearly defined workstreams, owners, deliverables, milestones, decision gates, resource requirements, interdependencies, risks, and success metrics.
• Establish and maintain a rigorous program management operating system, including governance forums, review cadence, action tracking, risk escalation, decision logs, and portfolio dashboards.
• Drive alignment and execution across participating businesses and functions, including Marketing and New Business Development, Technology, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and business leadership.
• Create strong accountability across workstream leaders; proactively follow through on commitments, remove barriers, and elevate unresolved issues to maintain pace and delivery quality.
• Deliver concise, decision-oriented executive reports and portfolio reviews that clearly communicate progress, business impact, risks, dependencies, resource needs, decisions required, and recommended actions.
• Prepare programs and projects for persist, pivot, pause, accelerate, or stop decisions by synthesizing customer, technical, operational, financial, and market evidence.
• Bring visible energy, urgency, and resilience to execution, sustaining momentum through ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational complexity.
• Build high-performing, cross-functional working groups by creating role clarity, accountability, constructive challenge, and rapid learning.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional growth, innovation, commercialization, and/or strategic transformation projects.
• Demonstrated record of converting ambiguous opportunities into structured programs with measurable business impact.
• Proven experience organizing and managing complex, enterprise-level programs involving multiple businesses, functions, workstreams, and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated record of translating ambiguous growth opportunities or strategic priorities into structured programs with measurable business outcomes.
• Strong command of program governance, integrated planning, milestone management, dependency management, risk management, resource coordination, and action tracking.
• Demonstrated ability to develop high-quality executive reporting that distills complex information into clear progress updates, choices, risks, recommendations, and decisions required.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, navigate competing priorities, and build alignment across global, cross-functional, and cross-business teams.
• Excellent planning, organizational, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with strong attention to detail and follow-through.

Skills And Competencies

• Strategic-to-execution leadership: Converts strategic intent into priorities, experiments, programs, and decisions.
• Evidence-based judgment: Distinguishes assumptions from facts and focuses learning on the uncertainties that matter most.
• Portfolio thinking and business acumen: Evaluates individual programs in the context of strategic fit, risk, return, capacity, and interdependencies. Builds compelling business cases.
• Influence in a matrix: Creates alignment and accountability across functions, businesses, and organizational levels. Successfully navigates challenging team dynamics with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Constructive challenge and creative problem-solving: Encourages rigorous debate while enabling clear decisions and committed execution. Enables teams to develop creative solutions.
• Learning agility: Adjusts direction quickly as customer, market, technical, or economic evidence changes.
• Communication: Functions well at executive and team levels. Distills complexity into clear insights, choices, recommendations, and implications. Sets clear expectations and aligns teams to deliver. Experience working across global and culturally diverse teams.
• Bias for action: Maintains momentum and decision quality in uncertain and rapidly evolving situations.

Education And Experience

• Advanced degree in chemistry, materials science, engineering, or a related field.
• Eight years minimum relevant professional experience with at least five years of program or project management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives, preferably with an emphasis on growth, innovation, commercialization, or transformation.
• Experience in the semiconductor and/or electronics industry is highly preferred; advanced packaging experience is an advantage.
• Experience with stage gate, lean innovation, and agile project management frameworks.
• Six Sigma, PMP, PMI-ACP, or other project management credentials preferred.
• Strong English communication skills; Korean and/or Mandarin language skills are a plus.

Living the Qnity Values

At Qnity, success is measured not only by what we achieve, but also by how we achieve it.

• Customer: Partner with stakeholders to understand needs, solve business challenges, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Innovation: Continuously improve processes, technologies, and ways of working.
• Speed: Act with urgency, focus, and precision to move work forward and deliver results.
• People: Build trusted relationships, collaborate across teams, and inspire positive change.

Qnity is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our Accessibility Page for Contact Information.

Qnity offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package.

Qnity uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance our recruitment process.

The Pay range for this role is $151,340.00 - $237,820.00 Annual

How Base Pay is Determined:

Qnity has job leveling frameworks that help organize roles based on progressive levels of responsibility, proficiency and qualifications. Each role has an associated pay range (or an established pay rate for some roles) based on the competitive market in each country where we operate. Each individual’s pay is based on a variety of factors, including their role and the associated pay range for that role, their geographic location (i.e., country, state, metropolitan area), as well as their skills, experience, education and certifications, and performance.