SR MGR PROJECT MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING

Job Overview

The Senior Manager, Project Management provides strategic leadership for a portfolio of advanced product development and proof of concept programs within Data and Devices. This role directs a project management function across complex, cross functional initiatives and is accountable for launch performance, budget, product cost, quality, resource planning, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and organizational capability development. The role partners with engineering, architecture, manufacturing, supply chain, product management, and senior leadership to translate business strategy into executable project plans and drive delivery across multiple sub functions.

This position will interface with the following:
•  Senior leadership and executive stakeholders
•  Product Management
•  Marketing and Sales
•  Product Engineering
•  System Architecture
•  Signal Integrity COE
•  Advanced Development Team
•  Product Development Engineering
•  Advanced Manufacturing Team
•  Manufacturing and Supply Chain
•  Finance, Quality, and Operations partners
•  Customers and external partners as required

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the project management operating strategy for N+1 and exploratory product development programs, ensuring alignment with TE business objectives, customer needs, technology roadmaps, and portfolio priorities.
• Lead a complex project management organization responsible for socket, high speed connector, cable assembly, and related data communication solutions for switches, servers, storage, and next generation architectures.
• Direct experienced project managers and cross functional leaders, including performance management, coaching, development planning, workload balance, and talent pipeline planning.
• Establish project governance, operating mechanisms, escalation paths, and decision criteria that improve schedule predictability, cost control, quality outcomes, and organizational efficiency.
• Own portfolio level planning for schedules, budgets, resource requirements, staffing priorities, and expense decisions across multiple projects and sub functions.
• Drive execution of large, complex programs from concept through technology handoff and product development, with accountability for launch on time, launch on budget, product cost, quality, and customer readiness.
• Partner with System Architecture, Signal Integrity COE, Advanced Development, Product Development Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Management, Marketing, and Sales to resolve cross functional priorities and accelerate innovation cycles.
• Lead risk, issue, and dependency management across the portfolio, including mitigation plans for technical feasibility, commercial impact, supply chain readiness, manufacturing feasibility, and compliance needs.
• Guide iterative development, rapid prototyping, simulation, prototype build, and validation plans to enable early learning while maintaining disciplined project controls.
• Ensure effective technology transfer from AST and advanced development teams to responsible Product Development Engineering teams, with clear deliverables, ownership, knowledge transfer, and readiness criteria.
• Provide executive level communication, including portfolio reviews, business updates, project dashboards, decision requests, and clear escalation of tradeoffs and risks.
• Implement and improve project management processes, Stage Gate practices, communication plans, responsibility matrices, and standard work to support consistency across programs and teams.
• Influence senior stakeholders and cross functional partners to gain alignment on priorities, tradeoffs, resource needs, and departmental outcomes.
• Assess risk and compliance across the area of accountability and ensure project teams understand and follow applicable TE policies, procedures, product development practices, and business requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in project management capability, including tools, metrics, training, best practice sharing, and development of project management talent.

What your background should look like

Skills, Experience and Education

• Typically requires a minimum of 13 years of related experience with a bachelor degree, 10 years with a master degree, 6 years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
• Generally requires at least 5 years of progressive leadership and people management experience, including leadership of experienced profe