Technical Program Manager IV

Job Title: Technical Program Manager IV (Wearables Business Group) Job ID : 58333-1 Pay : $80-$95/hr. Location: Fully Onsite (Sunnyvale, Burlingame, or Redmond) Duration: 12-month contract starting M-F, full-time (40 hours); W2, Opportunity for extension or conversion based on performance and business needs Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) PTO Job Description: At Reality Labs, our goal is to explore, innovate and design Client interfaces and hardware subsystems for the next generation of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. We are looking for a skilled and motivated Technical Program Manager to join our team, who will be supporting system health initiatives for multiple Wearable products. We are specifically looking for a candidate with experience with consumer device product development and who can work across a team of hardware and software engineers and product managers to help the team deliver high quality Wearables products on time. . As a Technical Program Manager on the System Health team, you'll ensure the overall product delivered is efficient, long-lasting, secure, and stable, accelerating the impact of experienced teams delivering groundbreaking innovations. You'll have the chance to work with many teams (e.g. product development, infrastructure, automation, research, production engineering, data science, data engineering) across Reality Labs. The right candidate will possess a strong technical program management, consumer product development experience background, and will have demonstrated experience leading complex initiatives across multiple product, software and hardware teams. The candidate we seek should have a strong background in managing consumer electronics projects to achieve system KPIs, preferably with experience in Power or Performance related domain, and a solid track record of working cross-functionally with multi-disciplinary teams. The candidate needs to be able to and drive large bodies of work independently through collaboration with other stakeholders such as System/Product architects, Software Technical Leads, Software and Hardware Managers and Validation domain experts. RESPONSIBILITIES: As the TPM in the System health team, you will be responsible for Power and Performance (PnP) areas for new devices Crafting PnP plans to support the Wearables org strategy. Collaboratively planning a roadmap of PnP features rollout with cross-functional partners. Building detailed execution plans and holding yourself and the team accountable to deliverables. Reporting on technical program status in various forums to peers and product leadership. Planning around risks and developing mitigations appropriately. Supporting the wider org with data processing skills and deriving insights on status and gaps to move the business forward. Building strong relationships with other groups within engineering and/or across the company and leveraging these relationships as a force-multiplier to meet goals. Articulating the technology, requirements, goals, and milestones of your program. Driving multiple engineering programs and product initiatives. Working with engineering teams to define and revise the long-term strategy, roadmaps, and end-to-end plans for device system health programs. Minimum Qualifications 6 years of experience as a Technical Program Manager managing software or consumer device programs from inception to production Experience delivering technical programs or products from inception to delivery B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience Communication and interpersonal experience, including relationship building and collaboration within a cross-functional team. Knowledge of software development and product development processes and best practices. Experience in processing and analyzing large sets of data using a MS-Excel / G-Sheet. Scripting experience in SQL and Python programming is a Major plus. Experience leading cross-functional teams (software and hardware engineers, peer TPMs and product managers). Experience in managing multiple programs concurrently. Experience in communicating program status, risks and planned mitigations to technical experts and leadership. Preferred Qualifications Experience building systems and processes for observing and improving battery, power and thermals for a HW/SW system Experience building systems and processes for observing and improving user-facing quality for a HW/SW system Top 3 HARD Skills : Exemplary written and verbal communication skills. Able to distill complex processes and information sets into informative and actionable communications. Partnerships: Able to engage with a wide range of disciplines to align on clear direction and responsibilities Leadership: Able to work autonomously, engaging partners to identify priorities and self-direct work towards the organizations goals Years Experience : Ideally 10 Story behind Need: Wearables Business Group, Systems Health team. Role will be responsible for coordinating teams to achieve power and performance goals (KPIs) for new Wearable products.