Associate Program Manager

In this position, you will develop, manage, and drive the end-to-end execution of HW, SW/FW throughout the product development lifecycle and delivery stages. We are looking for someone who is flexible and can respond quickly, energetically, and enthusiastically to changes.

Join our dynamic teams designing and developing next-gen energy technologies and help drive a sustainable future!

• Ensure product hardware, software and firmware requirements are clearly defined
• Develop and oversee comprehensive project plans
• Drive software / firmware factory readiness in support of hardware builds
• Synthesize large amounts of data into a clear story and communicate to partners and organizations at all levels
• Provide regular program status updates and communicate escalations as needed to executive team
• Communicate development milestones, project schedules and status updates and drive alignment across the organization and between teams
• Break down complex software/hardware issues into simple tasks
• Serve as the point of contact between multiple internal and external teams
• Identify and handle program cross-functional dependencies between teams
• Coordinate with teams to identify, prioritize and track risks to schedule and product quality
• Coordinate multiple validation plans across teams

Enphase is looking for a dynamic, experienced Program Manager to help drive some of our Micro-Inverter projects. You will lead program management efforts between cross-functional teams – Product Management, SW/FW Engineering, HW Engineering, Manufacturing, QA team and deliver the project on-time, within budget and quality.

This role at Enphase requires working onsite 3 days a week, with plans to transition back to a full 5 day in office schedule over time.

You are a highly engaged and self-driven project professional with incredible sense of ownership with the ability to drive project with minimal supervision. You have proven experience of managing both large complex projects and programs, budgets and justifying resource needs to senior. Able to think strategically and execute methodically with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment. You have excellent communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills that will enable you to earn trust at all levels and across geographies. Ability to facilitate meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions to push execution and alignment on organizational initiatives. Recognize the importance and are proficient in executing key areas of change management.

• Experience using project management, task, and ticketing software; Planview, Atlassian, Jira, MS Project, or similar
• Should possess excellent co-ordination skills.
• BTech/MTech in Engineering (Mech/Electrical/Electronics) with 6-8 years of total relevant experience
• Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles/Agile development models
• Ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems, conflicts
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with diverse teams and interact, influence, collaborate, and negotiate effectively at all levels of management.
• 4+ years of proven experience as a Program Manager in a Product company managing Product development and delivering high quality HW/Embedded products, consistently on-time.
• Understand engineering issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key partners for decision-making
• Understanding of HW/FW/SW development processes and test validation including HW manufacturing support. Strong software development background
• Track record of shipping products and managing them through the entire product life cycle
• Grasp complex technical topics and abstract key issues and risks into an actionable
• Experience working in cost reduction projects would be added plus.
• Experience using collaboration and team management applications; Microsoft Teams, Slack, SharePoint or similar
• PMP, CSM, SaFE or similar certifications preferred. MBA will be an added plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills