Technical Hardware Program Manager, Advanced

Remote Work: Hybrid

Overview

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.

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You'll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about – locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

Serving as a key Hardware Program Manager for the Advanced Location Technologies (ALT) business unit, the Technical Hardware Program Manager, Advanced, is a senior technical development leader who operates across all levels of the company. This role is pivotal in driving strategic hardware initiatives and product creation, with a primary focus on championing and implementing established design processes to enhance efficiency and inspire innovation within the Business Unit.

This leader is responsible for guiding cross-functional electro-mechanical hardware-based product teams through influence and expertise, ensuring tight coordination with Engineering and Product Management from initial concept through to deployment to manufacturing. Key responsibilities include meeting complex program goals for product performance, quality, and manufacturability. In close collaboration with Product Management and Engineering, they work to define products requirements, solidify business cases, author development plans and execute commitments.

Given our multitude of design and development partners, you will participate in negotiations involving Business Development, Finance, and Legal.

This role is a minimum of 3-days per week in either our Holtsville, NY (Long Island) office or Mississagua, Ontario, Canada office.

This posting is for an existing vacancy at Zebra Technologies.

Responsibilities

• Drives execution of hardware product development inclusive of concept definition, requirements, architecture, validation test, and governance compliance to our Lifecycle Management framework.
• Organizes and presents business, technical and program status to Senior Leadership using digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools.
• Develops and manages program budgets, ensuring financial activities align with quarterly and annual metrics.
• Engages in strategic partnerships with technology companies that are developing adjacent solution elements. Partners with entities that add value to your business and solutions.
• Independently engages additional resources as needed to address program obstacles or delays, taking into consideration schedule and budget, adjusting the project with minimal impact to the business.
• Leads system integration planning, release management, and planning for demonstrations, proof of concepts and pilots.
• Leads multiple moderately complex projects simultaneously or manage a large program with cross-functional teams in numerous locations and time zones
• Drives execution of solutions inclusive of concept definition, requirements validation, architecture specification, and governance compliance to our Application Lifecycle Management framework.
• Translates customer problems into solution requirements.
• Builds relationships and works across all relevant areas of the solution business including Sales, Services, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Operations and Support.
• Works independently with business in defining proof of value and customer’s return on investment.
• Organizes and presents business, technical and program reviews/status to Senior Leadership using digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools
• Executes program plan and budgets for multiple, large projects.
• Recommends corrective actions and implement changes. Identifies and mitigates risks; develops and implements risk mitigation plans. Ensures alignment from key leaders of milestone achievement before moving the program forward.
• Serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the business functions and processes in which the program is operating.
• Motivates a project team to ensure solutions are reliable and of quality, in a highly collaborative fashion
• Demonstrates the ability to see cross-functional impacts of decisions and project plans and execution. Balances scope, schedule and budget considerations to adjust the project with minimal impact to the business. Understands the business objectives of the program and assumes personal accountability for success of the program against those objectives.
• Coordinates deliverables and project assets to assist the pro