Principal Program Manager - PWS Ecosystem & Platforms
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Job description
- Orchestrate the Innovation Funnel: Drive the cross-BU planning cycle for our 3-year innovation roadmaps, ensuring deep alignment between product visions and engineering capabilities. Lead the annual "3-year innovation strategy" off-site with the PWS head of product.
- Lead Cross-Functional Governance: Own and optimize the monthly PWS R&D alignment forums. Serve as the bridge between the three Business Units: 3 Heads of Product, 3 Heads of HW Engineering, and 1 Head of SW Engineering.
- Manage the PWS Experience Platforms: Drive technical coordination across PWS for experiences that impact multiple product categories. Key platforms such as AI-enabled workflows, security, connectivity and sustainability.
- Coordinate program & schedule across multiple functions: Design, UX, SW, HW, Partner alliances. Working closely with heads of product and the program managers of each of the R&D functions.
- Strategic Partnership & Influence: Craft and lead the strategic innovation direction in collaboration with key internal and external partners (platform partners, technology suppliers), leveraging their expertise to co-create and de-risk the future product and technology pipeline.
- Full-Scope, High-Stakes Project Leadership
- Drive Complex Initiatives: Take direct operational ownership of high-impact, multi-threaded projects that defy traditional functional boundaries (e.g., leading a deeply complex partnership with a big platform partner, launching a unified software/hardware experience).
- Break Down Functional Silos: Step in where traditional, function-specific program managers (HW, SW, Design) stop. Synthesize engineering timelines, software readiness, go-to-market (GTM), partnership requirements, regional nuances, and retail readiness into a singular, executable program.
- Ecosystem Connection: Ensure new and existing products seamlessly interconnect to create a fluid, intuitive hardware and software ecosystem.
Requirements
As a deeply experienced, T-shaped technical leader , you bring a proven track record of delivering complex solutions across hardware, software, design, and go-to-market strategy, all backed by deep program management expertise. You know how to command a room and excel at influencing without formal authority, effortlessly driving cross-functional projects with external partners and internal stakeholders. Your leadership is built on a solid technical background, sharp business acumen, and a passion for the front-end of innovation. Thriving in a vibrant "Design Thinking" culture, you are energized to challenge yourself and others to relentlessly remove project and operational barriers., * The "T-Shaped" Toolkit: Proven track record leading R&D programs that involve complex hardware and software in B2C and B2B. You speak the language of engineers, designers, business, and commercial marketers equally well.
- Gravitas & Executive Influence: Senior enough to challenge, align, and partner with Vice Presidents, General Managers, and Directors across engineering, product and business organizations.
- Ambiguity Navigator: You thrive in the "gray space." When a critical partnership project touches five different teams with no clear owner, you naturally step in, map out the dependencies, and drive the team to the finish line.
- Ecosystem Thinker: You look at a mouse, a webcam, and a software platform and see a single, continuous user experience, not three separate products.
- Experience: 10+ years of hands-on R&D program management, technical product management, or engineering leadership within consumer electronics, or complex hardware/software environments. Experience delivering new HW & SW consumer electronics all the way to mass production and launch.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
- Willingness to travel globally