Senior Staff Technical Product Manager

$195,900 - $293,900/Yr

Pacific Biosciences Of California - Menlo Park, CA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Menlo Park, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Staff Technical Product Manager at PacBio is responsible for orchestrating research and development (R&D) activities across the Hardware Instrument and Chips R&D organization. This role involves ensuring compliance with design processes and corporate Product Life Cycle (PLC) requirements, collaborating with functional managers, and managing the strategy for hardware builds. The successful candidate will interface with various departments to track project progress, resolve discrepancies, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with functional leads and partners to track PLC activities and deliverables in MS Project or Smartsheet.
• Collaborate with PMO Project Managers to provide a consistent view and status across all hardware releases committed under PLC.
• Build and prepare Jira boards to track build progress and bugs.
• Prepare summarized reports to track progress and identify risks across all active projects.
• Work with functional leaders to define milestones, deliverables, and specifications. Track progress as per statement of work deliverables, report progress to management, escalate issues.
• Lead activities between product development and NPI, such as: Coordination of early prototype builds, and scale-up.
• Work with functional leads, supply chain and manufacturing engineering to ensure PRs are issued, track deliveries with suppliers, identify delivery issues and propose solutions to close the gaps.
• Ensure documentation completeness such as specifications, process documentation, work instruction, and bill of materials (BOM).
• Document and implement NPI best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelors in a technical engineering discipline (EE, Optics, Semiconductor Process, ME, or a related field).
• 10+ years of experience coordinating and facilitating HW product releases under PLC process.
• Versed in PowerPoint, Excel, MS Project/Smartsheet.
• Proven track record using Oracle Agile PLM, Jira, and Confluence.
• Experience tracking projects with third party technology development partners.
• Experience with Product-Life-Cycle development and Core Team framework.
• Demonstrated competency in communicating progress and status up the management chain.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• A strong team player, able to take initiative, detail oriented.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, interacting with program managers and engineers from a variety of disciplines.

Nice-to-haves

• Next-generation DNA sequencing instruments experience.