Technical Project/Program Management Director - Advanced Packaging

Applied Materials, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials seeks a seasoned Technical Program Leader to oversee advanced packaging initiatives from concept through deployment. You will drive scope, schedule, budgets, and resources while coordinating with internal and external partners to meet milestones.

You will guide multifunctional teams, influence senior leadership decisions, and ensure alignment with business strategy. A Master’s degree and 10+ years in the field are required for this high-impact role.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field.
• 10+ years of experience in advanced packaging or related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight from conception to implementation for new capability development in advanced packaging technologies.
• Define and drive program scope and objectives from customer requirements or roadmaps.
• Manage long-range schedules and task details using project management tools.
• Allocate resources and manage capital, requisitions, and purchase orders.
• Collaborate with senior management to align programs with business unit strategy.
• Lead multifunctional teams to execute complex programs and milestones.
• Coordinate with senior management for objectives, status updates, and release decisions.
• Apply engineering and business process expertise to resolve cross-functional challenges.
• Lead program reviews to ensure readiness and alignment across functions.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Cross-functional

Stakeholder management

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

What We Offer

Salary: $172,000.00 - $237,000.00

Location: Santa Clara,CA

• You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers.
• We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible while learning every day in a supportive leading global company.
• At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go.

Learn more about our benefits.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical program expert providing oversight from conception and planning to implementation for new capability development in advanced packaging technologies, including interconnect scaling initiatives. Ensures strategies, processes, and resources are aligned to program objectives, budgets, and release schedules.
• Defines and drives program scope and objectives based on: Customer requirements and specifications, or Internal product and technology roadmap initiatives.
• Responsible for managing long range schedule and task details by utilizing project management tools such as reports, tracking charts, checklists, and project scheduling software.
• Drives allocated resources from other organizations to achieve on-time and within budget performance objectives for the project. Initiates and manages capital allocation requests, purchase requisitions, and purchase orders.
• Works with senior business group management to ensure program alignment with business unit strategy, including development of advanced packaging solutions and scaling roadmaps.
• Leads multifunctional teams across internal and external stakeholders to execute complex programs, providing technical and operational leadership to achieve program milestones
• Interfaces and coordinates with business unit senior management to define program objectives, provide status updates and supports decision-making for release, deployment, and customer engagements.
• Applies engineering and business process expertise to resolve complex, cross-functional program challenges, particularly in areas of process integration, capability readiness, and system-level performance.
• Contributes and leads technical and program review forums, ensuring readiness and alignment across functions for key milestones for assigned programs.

Functional Knowledge

• Recognized as a subject matter expert with broad and comprehensive understanding of advanced packaging systems, capability development, and integration challenge.
• Demonstrates broad and comprehensive expertise in leading-edge theories, techniques and/or technologies within own field.

Business Expertise

• Influences internal/external business and/or regulatory issues that have an impact on the business.

Leadership

• Leads highly visible, complex, cross-functional initiatives requiring coordination across a matrixed organization; provides strategic and operational leadership.

Problem Solving

• Proactively identifies and solves the most complex problems; uses ground-breaking methods to think beyond existing solutions.

Impact

• Impacts business direction through successful execution of advanced packaging programs, new capability development, and system-level innovation including interconnect scaling.

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates effectively with senior leadership, partners, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, resolve conflicts, and drive execution.

Education

Master's Degree

Experience

10+ Years

Additional Information

• Time Type: Full time
• Employee Type: Assignee / Regular
• Travel: Yes, 50% of the Time
• Relocation Eligible: No

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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