Senior Technical Program Manager, Firmware

Location: Remote USA. This role can be performed anywhere from the United States.

The Role

GoPro is looking for a top tier candidate for the role of Sr. Technical Program Manager, Firmware. This position will be responsible for managing overall Product Firmware developments for our Cameras and Accessories, acting as the project manager through design, development, validation, release to production and sustaining state. The successful candidate will have exceptional product development fundamentals, exceptional communication skills, and a desire to work with an amazing team to build game-changing products.

What You’ll Do

• Provide direction and guidance in driving product development efforts within Product Firmware projects, from early concepts to product launch and sustaining.
• Spearhead and align efforts to define engineering scope, critical paths, technical risks to create project plans and schedule that will deliver high-quality products with high confidence.
• Build and manage project schedules, dependencies, deliverables and responsibilities with functional managers and team members.
• Prioritize team deliverables, tasks, and issues; manage change requests against scheduling and resource constraints.
• Identify and highlight technical risks quickly and efficiently, resolve conflicting priorities and inter-dependencies, drive for consensus, risk mitigations and conclusions.
• Partner with other Technical Program Manager and team leads to ensure that handoffs between teams are never dropped, and are transferred with clear responsibilities, ownership, and delivery expectations.
• Run regular stakeholder reviews; communicate and present status and issues effectively to all levels of the organization, both verbally and in writing.
• Support Engineering, Legal and Operations teams to close on SOW and legal agreements to meet project plans.
• Maintain approach towards teamwork and collaboration.

Skills We’re Excited About

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 8+ years of technical work experience related to Firmware or Software development, Embedded Systems development, including 4+ years of Engineering Program Management in consumer electronics industry.
• Experience and/or understanding of product development lifecycles and processes.
• Self-starter, self-motivated, detail-oriented and demonstrate critical thinking capabilities.
• Track record of organizational and priority management skills in complex technical contexts.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with ability to synthesize complex and large amount of data into concise explanations that enable executive-level decision-making.
• Team player and able to remain flexible, calm and focus in complex cross-functional environment.
• Experience in working with and managing offshore suppliers and manufacturers.
• Knowledgeable of one or more technologies is a plus: Electrical Engineering, UX/UI, Image Quality, Software development.

Why Work With Us?

Create your own destiny. GoPro enables you and trusts you to get your own job done, because we believe that autonomy in role brings out the best in our employees.

Live your best life. We’ve adopted remote and flexible work arrangements to support work at GoPro alongside our commitment to supporting employee wellbeing, belonging and connection with one another.

Work with leading edge technologies. We encourage employees to cultivate and use the latest and greatest technology, to provide the best solutions to serve our customers. We celebrate creative solutions that bring innovation to GoPro technology.

 

GoPro Highlights

• Get your very own GoPro camera + gear
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance – premiums are 100% paid for employees, 80% paid for dependents
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Generous time off policy
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for new parents
• Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) options
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• LiveHealthy monthly wellness reimbursement
• Innovative remote-friendly wellness classes and events
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional + personal development opportunities, i.e. LinkedIn Learning, technology trainings, certifications, Peer-to-Peer learning, conferences and more
• Opportunities to get involved in the causes that you care about (annual camera donation + volunteer events)

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