Technical Project Manager - Embedded Systems
Company: VIZIO
Location: Dallas
Posted on: August 7, 2022
Job Description:
About the Team:VIZIO is looking for a proactive and
forward-thinking technical Project Manager to enhance existing
operations and platform projects. In this hands-on role, you will
help manage implementation efforts of our operations platforms,
monitoring and lead engineering teams to ensure milestones and
deadlines are met.
What You Will Do:
- Run and lead engineering team to deliver products and solutions
for sophisticated embedded systems
- Provide outstanding leadership to program team to deliver
projects/programs timely, with high quality while achieving
excellent result
- Perform overall program-level planning & lead program execution
of interdependent projects, and drive effective and accurate status
reporting
- Be responsible for the identification of risks and issues, and
development of risk mitigation strategies and associated
processes
- Identify critical partners and required engagement model and
handle effective decision-making with leadership/engineering
teams
- Supervise overall road-map, identify and report potential
obstacles such as scope creep, resource and personnel shortfalls,
and problems with schedule, and release delays
- Communicate with related parties with software engineers,
product managers, and development teams.
- Conduct data analysis to deliver insights for Engineering
Managers
- At least 5 years of program or project management in software
development
- Driving multi-functional efforts across major technical fields:
SW, HW, Product, and QA
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills to engineers,
managers, and execs
- Identifying risks, developing mitigation strategies, and
facilitating resolutions
- Sound technical foundation and a highly motivated
self-starter
- Knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies and
related dependencies
- Strong leadership skills and ability to inspire team
members
About You:
- Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes,
strategies, and methods
- Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum and Kanban development
methodologies.
- Good understanding of Linux systems, media, and system
architecture
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment
and promoting a teamwork mentality
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with many
different personality types
- Experience in project management models including Agile,
Waterfall, and Scrum
- 5+ years demonstrate ability in engineering development and
project management are required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences, Information System, or
similar
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced, multifaceted
environment
- Excellent planning, time management, organizational and
interpersonal skills
- Experience with a project management tool is necessary,
experience with JIRA & Confluence.
- We are looking for someone to drive, own, and ship all aspects
of large, multi-functional efforts and feature areas
- Partner with engineering teams throughout feature development
from architecture, design, implementation, and validation.
- Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution to
program issues
- Present and communicate new feature initiatives, top issues,
risks, critical achievements to executive leadership
- Own roadmap, priorities, prioritization, timelines, for
technologies
- Help the team with ongoing improvements to the program
management processes Collaborate with Engineering, Quality,
Operations, and Marketing teams
Experience with any of the following is a plus:
- Knowledge of operating system internals, embedded system
development and bring-up, device drivers, and memory
management
- Familiarity with hardware virtualization technologies - CPU/GPU
virtualization or device emulation
- C, C++, Objective-C
- The candidate is bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese
About VIZIOWe are Beautifully Simple.Headquartered in Irvine,
California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1
Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high
performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a
significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our
loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we
redefine what it means to be smart.
VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity
in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regards to race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender
expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other
basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated
against on the basis of disability.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees
to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a
mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any
agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited
resumes will be considered our property and will be processed
accordingly.
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