Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM)

Program Leadership & Execution

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution across R&D, IST, manufacturing, supply chain, and customer teams.
• Serve as the primary program interface to the customer TPM, internal leadership, and engineering organizations.
• Ensure alignment on requirements, priorities, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and required milestones.
• Drive accountability to program milestones, customer commitments, and business objectives.

Scheduling, Risk & Documentation

• Develop, maintain, and continuously update the integrated master schedule, critical path, dependencies, and resource plan.
• Maintain a comprehensive risk register including risk identification, owners, mitigation plans, and closure timelines.
• Ensure all program documentation (SOW deliverables, plans, reports, action logs) is up-to-date and accessible.
• Coordinate engineering development, integration, validation, manufacturing readiness, and customer deployment activities.

Reporting & Communication

• Deliver weekly internal status updates summarizing progress, risks, issues, decisions, and next steps.

• Provide monthly program reports for leadership and customer, highlighting:

• Milestone achievement and schedule performance

• Critical path status and forecasted delivery dates

• Key accomplishments and upcoming priorities

• Risk and issue summaries with mitigation and closure plans

Develop executive-ready dashboards, presentations, and data-driven insights to support decision-making.

Ensure all program documentation, action logs, deliverables, and decisions are current and accessible.

• Communicate issues clearly with root causes, impacts, and recovery plans.

Customer Engagement

• Partner closely with customer TPMs to clarify requirements, review progress, manage expectations, and address escalations.
• Facilitate reviews, milestone checkpoints, demonstrations, and acceptance activities throughout the solution delivery lifecycle.
• Build trusted customer relationships through proactive communication and predictable program execution.
• Effectively manage customer expectations while balancing technical, schedule, and resource constraints.
• Ensure commitments to customers are realistic, documented, and consistently met.

Process & Governance

• Establish and maintain program governance, including milestone reviews, risk management, issue escalation, and change control processes.
• Drive continuous improvement of program management processes, tools, and reporting mechanisms.
• Promote best practices for execution consistency across multiple customer programs.
• Support portfolio planning, resource prioritization, and cross-program coordination.

• Bachelor's in engineering or related field (advanced degree preferred).

• 5-8+ years in technical program management or engineering leadership.

• Demonstrated success leading complex hardware, software, or integrated system development programs.

• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, risk management, and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong understanding of product development lifecycles, system integration, validation, and manufacturing readiness.

• Strong risk management and problemsolving skills.

• Experience coordinating across R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain.

• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and aggressive schedules.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, or similar program management tools.

• PMP certification or equivalent. Preferred Qualifications

• Strong customer-facing leadership experience, including executive-level communication and escalation management.

• Experience in high-technology industries (e.g., wireless, satellite, networking, test & measurement).

• Experience leading complex hardware/software customer programs.

• Excellent communication and executivelevel reporting skills. Success Measures

• On-time delivery of customer milestones, contractual commitments, and program deliverables.

• Clear, consistent documentation, including timely program reporting.

• Effective management of risks, issues, scope changes, and resource constraints.

• Strong crossfunctional alignment and customer satisfaction.

• Predictable, nosurprise program execution.

US Employees may be eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life, Accident, Disability insurance
• Business Travel Accident and Business Travel Health
• 401(k) Plan
• Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays
• Paid Family Leave
• Discounts, Perks
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Adoption Assistance
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

Keysightis at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~15,000 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn moreabout what we do. Our award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions.We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.