Engineering Program Manager, Arista
$121-187k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Data-driven networking platform
Job no longer available
Data-driven networking platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$121-187k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To design, manufacture and deliver leading data-driven cloud networking solutions in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner.
Role
Who you are
- Strong leadership, communications, and team-building skills are essential
- 7-10+ years of program management, design engineering, and manufacturing experience in the electronics hardware development environment
- Exceptional project management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills
- Significant working knowledge of hardware development
- Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, develop and implement new processes
- Experience interfacing with product management, internal engineering team, CM’s
- Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders
- Education: BSEE/ME/IE degree or equivalent. MBA, PMP desirable
What the job involves
- As a Program Manager you will work with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to drive hardware product development, release to manufacturing, and sustain the product in manufacturing
- You will spend ~75% of your time working in the NPI process and 25% in Manufacturing
- Lead a cross-functional team from HW, SW, Central, and Diagnostic engineering, manufacturing, product management, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market
- Based on the information presented you must be able to predict how delivery slips or quality issues in one function will affect others on the team. Anticipate the impact and prepare contingency plans
- Create a master schedule that captures and inter-connects the key functional deliverables as defined by the product development lifecycle and ensures the team delivers. Drive and lead development milestone checkpoints
- Drive, coordinate, and monitor Engineering programs including scheduling, planning,
- Product and project cost analysis, early access, & first customer shipment
- Drive cross-functional issue resolution ensuring issues are identified, owned and
- Resolved. Ensure issues are escalated to the appropriate functional leaders
- Identify and implement product development process improvement initiatives
Our take
Arista is a supplier of cloud networking solutions, addressing the needs of internet companies, cloud service providers, and enterprises. While the business is not tied to a crowd of large customers, companies are nonetheless attracted to its CloudVision Software - which has the potential to save them a significant amount of money.
The company's growth so far has led to it being seen as a rising star in the computer networking industry. It competes directly with digital giant Cisco, but despite this boasts impressive revenue growth. In fact, Arista has been vocal with its confidence that it can continue to grow at a rapid pace, as it further develops its offering for the networking market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2020
$36m
SERIES C
Jul 2017
$30m
LATE VC
Total funding: $66m
Company values
- Respect
- Integrity
- Teamwork
- Innovation
- Passion
- Trust
- Quality
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
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Leadership
Andreas von Bechtolsheim
(CDO)Previously was a co-founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems. Has also received the EY 2015 US Entrepreneur of the Year Award and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Kenneth Duda
(CTO)Holds 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT as well as a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously worked as the CTO at There and was also the first employee of Granite Systems, where they lead the software development team.
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