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Meta · 1 day ago

Technical Lead, NPI Program Management

Fremont, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$199K/yr - $272K/yr

10+ years exp

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. They are seeking an experienced New Product Introduction Program Manager to act as Technical Lead for the Network Hardware teams, managing complex projects and ensuring successful product introductions across various supply chain and engineering teams.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

As the single-threaded owner for Meta’s Network Supply Chain organization, apply hands-on program management skills and techniques to drive overall schedule, build & test readiness, factory readiness, material readiness, and risk management, internal and external escalations and program communications to achieve on-time and on-quality execution of NPI builds for AI compute, storage and network hardware programs

Provide technical leadership to all NPI PMs as they bring Network NPIs from concept to Mass Production (MP) exit, optimize performance, and enable supply chain synergies from program to program by leveraging data-driven insights and collaborative partnership

Act as primary liaison between Meta’s Network Supply Chain organization and all internal and external partners for covered programs, by owning the program communication strategy and execution

Constructively influence partners into simplifying direction on programs to remove supply chain risk

Drive multiple teams through high-level risk management by leveraging synergies across all ISCE Network programs, schedule input, and ODMs (Original Design Manufacturer)

Mitigate risks related to supply chain disruptions, manufacturing issues, and quality concerns by assessing circumstances, capabilities (of multiple parties), and learnings from historical data

Drive Supply Chain decisions, influence strategic investments of limited resources, and offer clear context and narratives to directly impact the NPI program direction, broader product cycles, and goals for multiple programs across the larger Infra organization

Mobilize and create new teams to align with organizational needs and strategies, and to driving process improvements and innovations

Own and drive program escalations across Meta internal and external teams and partners

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working with commercial/technical sourcing, engineering, operations, planning, and quality teams to ensure smooth transitions between phases

Support ISCE in building resilient, and responsive supply chains that meet the evolving needs of our cross-functional partners

Drive build readiness including all Supply Chain deliverables and daily build issue debug cadence across Meta’s Supply Chain and internal and external engineering and manufacturing partners

Drive factory ramp readiness with internal and external engineering and manufacturing partners

Qualification

Program ManagementSupply Chain ManagementNPI Lifecycle ManagementHardware EngineeringRisk ManagementData AnalysisInfluential LeadershipCommunication StrategyProcess ImprovementCross-Functional Collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience

Expertise with general Program Management best practices in multi-organizational and multi-national technical environments, leveraging prior experience as an engineer or manufacturing engineer (in AI, compute, or networking hardware)

10+ years of experience within computer hardware and/or networking manufacturing, shop floor control, supply chain execution, manufacturing testing, and product lifecycle management tools

Expertise with NPI product life-cycle, program management including program kickoff, stakeholder influence & strategy, workstream prioritization, driving cross-functional execution and establishing working relationships across multi-disciplinary teams

Expertise with supply continuity and with identifying/mitigating early supply chain risks

Preferred

M.S. in hardware engineering, manufacturing engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience

Experience sourcing and managing global (EMEA, LATAM, etc.) suppliers and manufacturing partners

Experience with data center hardware architecture and deployment

Expertise with navigating ambiguity with initiative and proactive planning, in technical environments, as an influential leader

Knowledge of manufacturing-specific roles & responsibilities throughout NPI phases including HW, SW, manufacturing, product, process, test & quality engineering, reliability, and quality assurance

Knowledge of supply chain-specific roles & responsibilities throughout NPI phases including procurement, planning, product lifecycle management, materials management, demand and supply planning, and logistics

Knowledge of manufacturing test processes & systems, including quality inspections, automated server, storage and integrated rack testing

Knowledge of PLM concepts including BOMs (Bill of Material), ECO (Engineering Change Order)/ MCO (Manufacturing Change Order), deviations, part substitutions, effectivity date management, quality management systems