Engineering Program Manager

Location:

Mountain View, CA

Duration:
Longterm

We seek a highly motivated Engineering Program Manager to lead and track engineering projects in telecommunications, including RAN, Core Networks, and external initiatives. The role involves managing cross-functional teams, collaborating with vendors and stakeholders, and proactively addressing potential challenges. This individual will also communicate detailed project statuses and must have a strong technical background in networking and telecommunications. Project status to both internal and external stakeholders and must possess strong understanding of networking and telecommunication concepts.

• Oversee the day-to-day project and engineering program activities and their status, drive their completion from the planning stage to completion, ensuring projects are delivered on time.
• Serve as the primary contact for external customers and vendors regarding project statuses, issues, and deliverables.
• Drive non-engineering tasks such as hosting meetings, addressing queries from engineering, sales, vendors, and product management teams.
• Escalate issues to the appropriate engineering teams and ensure they clearly understand priorities.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Work cross functionally to develop and refine project timelines, product requirements. Conduct post-project evaluations to gather learnings, retrospective feedback, and implement process improvements.
• Effective upward communication and timely escalation are essential.

• Bachelors degree in technical degree such as Telecommunications, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• 5 years of experience in project and engineering program management, focused on telecommunications or wireless industry.
• Additional expertise in projects across Core, RAN and other telecom technologies.
• Proficiency in waterfall, scrum, and agile methodologies.
• Experience with program management tools such as JIRA.
• Demonstrated ability to work with external stakeholders (e.g., vendors, clients, network operators, chipset manufacturers).
• Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environments, adapting quickly to changing priorities.
• Strong communication, documentation and presentation skills