Technical Program Manager IV

Alpha Net Consulting - Burlingame, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Burlingame, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Technical Program Manager IV will support system health initiatives for multiple Wearable products, focusing on ensuring the efficiency, longevity, security, and stability of the products. This role involves collaborating with hardware and software engineers, product managers, and various teams across Reality Labs and Meta to deliver high-quality Wearables products on time. The candidate will lead complex initiatives, manage consumer electronics projects, and drive large bodies of work independently while fostering collaboration among stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.