Engineering Project Manager, Audio

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We are currently seeking a Engineer Project Manager, Audio. This program management position requires a highly experienced professional Program Manager with a proven track record of managing complex cross-functional programs, preferably in the Automotive Industry. The candidate will be an accomplished program manager, with a strong organizational capability and ability to command respect from the talented teams he or she will help lead and coordinate. Ideally, this candidate will have proactive communication, so each individual team member remains aware of the timing and delivery expectations placed upon them and that critical issues are identified and brought to the attention of senior management with gauged advance notice.

The Role:
• Create and play a leading role in the execution of an overall timing plan for the Infotainment System and related function
• To lead and manage to an excellent standard through hands-on example
• Manage the feature implementation plans for Infotainment features
• Interact with and coordinate work between Infotainment hardware and software teams, design UX teams, and other company entities requiring inputs/outputs from Infotainment
• To define main work packages for Infotainment and related functions (Media, Navigation, Audio etc)
• Facilitate product requirement and HMI feature documentation
• Ensure adherence to Functional Safety requirements
• Facilitate architecture documentation
• Define and communicate dependencies between hardware, software, and suppliers with a focus on minimizing these dependencies.
• Communicate program status to overall software organization, other program managers and executives as required
• Work with resource managers and technical leads to define the level of effort, resource requirements and summary timing plans.
• Plan and manage sprints in conjunction with resource managers and technical leads

Qualifications:
• A minimum of 5 years of experience program/project managing large systems development programs
• A minimum of 8 years in consumer-facing electronics development including hardware and software
• A proven track record of delivering products to production
• Experience using Agile/Scrum/Sprint methodology including sprint planning and execution
• Experience bringing integrated software/hardware products from the early development phase to production
• Embedded system development experience
• Experience with best software practices for development
• Experience with development in Android and Linux environments
• Experience working directly with design/UX teams and in UX/UI development
• Experience engaging, working and managing the output of third-party suppliers


Advantageous:

• Experience in developing automotive infotainment systems
• Experience with infotainment and instrument cluster development
• Exposure to OS/systems development, backend development, mobile application development, and hybrid (cloud/embedded) development
• Experience with test and build aspects of software development
• Product management experience and a willingness to embrace portions of the product management role.

Education Requirements:
• BS minimum in an engineering discipline (computer science, electrical engineering or similar)
• PMP certification preferred
• Automotive-SPICE certification preferred

Salary Range: The compensation range for this position is specific to the locations listed below and is the range Lucid reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; and other relevant business and organizational factors.   Additional Compensation and Benefi