Staff Project/Program Design Manager

What you will do:

• Lead New Product Introduction efforts to ensure delivery on schedule, on budget and meeting market requirements
  • Partner with product definers and customers to set project scope and requirements
  • Work with functional area managers to identify needed resources
  • Engage with functional area leaders to build and drive the program to completion
  • Identify and mitigate risks to program success
• Advise and report on program progress and priorities
  • Track all items required for NPI
  • Ensure adherence to NPI process and industry standards
  • Provide regular communication to senior leaders and customers on program progress, risks and challenges
• Solve problems
  • Anticipate:      Identify risks early.  Plan for contingencies.
  • Prevent:         Find opportunities to prevent problems before they manifest
  • React:            Work with managers and technical leader staff to coordinate solutions
• Drive improvements in our processes
  • Perform end-of-project reviews to identify and close gaps in our processes and milestone signoffs
  • Partner with functional area leaders and peer program managers to align and refine best practices for new product introduction

• Extensive experience in semiconductor (or adjacent) new product development in a technical role (Applications, Operations, PE, TE, Reliability, Design, Packaging, etc.)
• Demonstrated track record of delivering complex technical programs to market
• Working knowledge of program management best practices and tools
• Business Acumen - Understands financial considerations in product development and portfolio management
• Strong communication skills – ability to quickly and succinctly communicate complex technical content to non-area experts. You can translate across between technical verticals, customers, and management. 
• Flexibility – Comfortable working in emerging technologies with ambiguous or changing requirements may require abrupt and significant changes to project scopes and plans.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics or similar discipline is required
• 5+ years in a technical role is required
• Experience in power electronics or automotive NPI is a plus
• PMP certification is a plus

The position is hybrid. Candidates have to leave in travel distance.

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at www.renesas.com. 

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to  supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.