Senior Engineering Project Manager

As an Engineering Project Manager (EPM) supporting the Watch Product Design (PD) organization, you will be responsible for the technical management and support of engineering development for one of our Watch PD teams. The successful candidate will be a fearless organizer, utilizing a solid ME background to drive day-to-day activities with the team to meet the top level program objectives. The PD EPM focuses on system-level mechanical engineering design, managing development planning and validation cycles.

Must Have Skillset:
• BS ME degree required
• 5+ years of project management experience
• Detailed knowledge of product development cycles
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes
• Experience interfacing with Mechanical Engineering/Design, Operations, and Vendors
• Experienced in setting up project schedules and work breakdown structures
• Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity
• Enable efficient development by creating and maintaining a streamlined process, capturing parallel designs and clear paths to closure with owners for each action item
• Collaborate and facilitate communication across engineering, operations, and our vendor partners to meet aggressive cost, schedule, and quality goals
• Understand technical issues & complex design trade-offs. Drive to closure by bringing together key stakeholders for decision-making to meet overall project objectives
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution within and between teams, focus on top level objectives and develop a better course of action
• Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management as top priorities shift
• Create and maintain detailed project schedules for key enclosure and mechanical components, respond quickly to changes
• Offer multiple levels of status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors

Desired Skillset:
• Experience in consumer electronics
• Experience as a practicing engineer
• Chinese language skills
• Ability to travel internationally
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational and leadership skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, oriented toward teamwork
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience
• Self-motivated and proactive, demonstrating creative and critical thinking capabilities