Job Description

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Create project plans that drive successful, measurable project execution: Ensure technical feasibility, financial viability, risk assessment and schedule are well understood by customers. 
• Identify and document market requirements. 
• Work with internal project teams to define technical solutions. 
• Create a work breakdown structure to plans budget and routinely reassess as needed. 
• Actively handle risks to identify changes and mitigation strategies. 
• Clearly communicate all schedule constraints and project achievements.
• Act as the single point of contact for the project: Develop project communication plans and ensure execution to the plan, resulting in professional and consistent communication with internal customers.
•  Effectively negotiate scope and schedule changes.
•  Accurately identify and communicate internal and external customer needs. 
• Organize and facilitate project reviews that ensure key customers are presented with accurate and concise information to make decisions.
• Influence others to ensure successful delivery
•  Frequently collaborate with other departments such as manufacturing, R&D, operations, quality and sales. 
• Lead with influence to ensure the success of your projects and set the stage for future success of your next project working with these customers. 
• Develop a sense of urgency in customers while also building a solid foundation for future collaboration.
• Lead project analysis on resource, schedule & budget planning and risk assessment
• Monitor and report out to customers on project status; raise issues when vital. 
• Evaluate changes that substantially impact the scope, budget, or schedule of projects and drive decisions on these changes.
• Collaborate with resource managers to ensure appropriate staffing on projects
• Influence and make decisions about scope, schedule, and resources.
• Drive process and tool improvement efforts
• Drive continuous improvement through successful lessons learned activities that result in appropriate process or tool changes.
• Lead initiatives to help the organization operate more efficiently and effective. 
• Be passionate about continuous improvement.
• Lead Early Access Programs: Work closely with R&D and act as the key point of contact to internal business and technical teams.
•  Manage a feedback mechanism to track and leverage customer experience with the early access product.

• PMI-ACP or PMP certification, or be able to attain one within 6 months of hire.
• A minimum of 15 years’ experience managing HW and SW project teams.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• Previous exposure to National Instruments hardware and/or software
• Semiconductor industry experience
• Strong understanding of business concepts such as pricing, costs, margins, ROI, etc
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) discipline
• MBA