Technical Hardware Program Manager

You will work with a versatile and upbeat team of enthusiastic engineers in an environment where team members experience mutual enhancement and improvement. You will have the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally with our Hardware, Mechanical Engineering, Optics, and manufacturing Process Engineering teams.

You are a high-energy Technical Program Manager who loves to work on hardware products. You are a standout colleague with a startup mentality who loves to challenge the status quo with creation and innovation. We are often developing the industry's first ground breaking coherent optical modules. Our ideal candidate can flourish with minimal guidance and is able to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity

• Build and track NPI program schedules, budgets, and labor requirements.
• Work directly with the Hardware team to release new hardware on time and on budget
• Act as the key interface between Hardware engineering and Acacia's other organizations
• Provide timely project status to senior management and cross functional teams
• Contribute to Hardware engineering process definition, improvements, and documentation

• Bachelors in relevant field with a minimum 8 years of hardware program/project management experience, or Master's 6 years of hardware program/project management experience, or 3 years of hardware program/project management experience, with at least 5 years of direct HW management experience
• Hardware design and/or management experience is essential for this role
• Hardware design flow from concept to release experience, including hardware product design life cycle and best practices
• Project management experience for large multi-disciplinary engineering projects (Budgets, labor, schedules, etc.)
• Hardware design product life cycle experience
• Hardware engineering and ISO process documentation experience
• Experience managing groundbreaking networking hardware products and governing standards

• Experience delivering leading edge hardware for a networking or related communications company
• Experience presenting complex technical details to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience leading teams, making decisions, and risk planning
• Experience with conflict resolution in an engineering product development environment
• Experience working with multiple stakeholder groups

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer-80 hours each year-allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!