LHH Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Program Manager at our defense manufacturing client in Austin, TX. Our Client is a global leader in modular, high performance, open architecture, standards-based rugged embedded computing for the most demanding applications in defense and industry. Their products and solutions are found in high-profile military/aerospace sea, land and air programs, plus commercial and industrial organizations in which rugged reliability is mission critical.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Owns and maintains the product strategy for RF/DSP and FPGA solutions within the overall product system
- Develops long-range roadmaps aligned to industry trends and customer need.
- Conducts competitive analysis across relevant form factors.
- Authors business cases and requirements for new products.
- Leads kickoff process for new NPD launches.
- Oversees performance of the multiproduct portfolio.
- Interfaces with customers, sales, and partners.
- Supports secure customer engagements.
- Provides technical presentations, Marketing, collateral and training.
- Partners with engineering, operations, and leadership.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in engineering, from an accredited college or university (Masters preferred).
- 7+ years in RF, DSP, FPGA, or embedded defense markets.
- Product management or technical leadership experience preferred.
Qualifications:
- Ability to build and justify multi-year business cases to the Abaco leadership team.
- Experience making system level RF tradeoffs (noise figure, SFDR, intermodulation, dynamic range) and understanding how those tradeoffs propagate from antenna through data conversion and DSP
- Experience in managing relationships with customers and suppliers and interfacing with leadership within the company.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts.
- Experience with product concept definition and NPI launches.
- Has translated RF and DSP theory into real hardware or FPGA implementations and understands where practical systems diverge from ideal models.
- Experience with embedded electronics and/or software.
- Familiarity writing requirements with Military Standards.
- Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers.
- Ability to create positive outcomes in an influential leadership position without direct reports.
- Strong oral, written, interpersonal, and customer communication skills.
- Self-starter, inclusive, highly motivated individual.
PLEASE NOTE: Abaco is a Department of Defense (DoD) supplier and as such employees may work with or be exposed to export controlled information and/or information that has been designated as classified information. This information may only be seen or handled by US citizens or qualified permanent residents or those with proper clearances.
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