Principal Project/Program Design

Company Description

Renesas is a global semiconductor leader providing comprehensive hardware and software solutions for embedded design, automotive, industrial, and IoT applications. At Renesas, we believe in "One Renesas"—a unified culture driven by collaboration, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to execution excellence.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and disciplined Project/Program Manager to join our Configurable Mixed Signal Division (CMSD). In this role, you will exhibit full project ownership, acting as the go-to person for internal teams and managing assigned chip development projects from kick-off to customer release. You will lead cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams to deliver complex mixed-signal products, ensuring alignment with Renesas' global methodologies and strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Manages assigned chip development projects for the Configurable Mixed Signal Division (CMSD) by leading cross functional geographically dispersed teams that are focused on the delivery of products from kick-off to release for customers.
• Develops, Defines, and executes project plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables for assigned projects.
• Exhibit full project ownership, become the go-to person for all internal teams for questions related to assigned projects and have total involvement in all phases of product development process from start to finish.
• Work with CMSD PMO lead responsible for tracking projects metrics/KPI such as schedule, risks, scope, budget, cost entitlement and manufacturability.
• Support Annual Operation Planning. Working with CMSD PMO lead to estimate, forecast, and manage individual project as well as program/portfolio spending to ensure actual spending tracks closely with forecast and avoid surprises.
• Maintain good discipline & practice guidelines, processes, and execution methodologies for team to follow to continuously improve project execution.
• Build trust and collaborate closely with functional leadership from other functional teams for identifying and removing execution roadblocks, mitigate risks and improve efficiencies for continuously improving project execution.
• Collaborate with X-functional teams and with peers from other business groups to drive collaboration and harvest best practices and lessons learned to keep CMSD Product group in sync with One Renesas methodologies, tools and systems.
• Work with demand creation, sales and marketing to align execution and sample priorities with market and customer needs to allow us to compete and win. Guide team to help prepare customer requested RFI, RFQ responses to bid on key business opportunities.
• Effectively communicate with leadership, with the team and across the organization to keep stakeholders, leadership informed of project status in periodic project reviews.
• Escalate early to identify and address issues before they start to impact execution metrics, if needed by establishing Tiger teams.
• Guide team to prepare and effectively report project status updates at management decision point reviews as well as cross functional project progress reviews.

Qualifications

Knowledge & Skills

• Understanding the fundamentals of design, fabrication, packaging, test, characterization, qualification and mass production of semiconductor products.
• Delivery of projects to schedule, budget, and quality. First time right mentality with execution
• Implement project management strategy to challenge status quo and drive higher efficiency of execution to scale up to the roadmap requirements.
• Continuous focus on mitigating project risk by tracking progress, contingency planning and acting on small signals with high urgency and timely escalation to prevent fire-fighting.
• Develop a strong disciplined mindset among project teams that understand their role and responsibilities, collaborate with each other and seamlessly executes with continuous focus on improving all execution vectors.
• Proficient with industry standard project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, SharePoint, FMEA , 8D/Root Cause Analysis, Microsoft OneNote etc.

Experience

• Experienced semiconductor profession with 5-7+ years of relevant experience working for a major analog semiconductor company.
• 3-5+ years of hand`s on technical program/project management experience leading teams to develop broad market or custom mix-signal analog products for commercial, industrial or automotive applications. PMP certification is not a requirement but will be plus.
• 3-5+ years of relevant experience being part of Product line NPI functional teams as a hands-on product, test, validation, design, quality or related function.
• In depth understanding of new product