Job Description

The SEBU (Semiconductor & Electronics Business Unit) Systems R&D team is seeking a Senior Group Manager with strong leadership, communication, and project management skills. This individual will be accountable for project execution to meet scope, cost and timeline goals as well as directly managing a team of people and helping grow their careers in the Semiconductor Automated Design Validation (ADV) team within Systems R&D. You will oversee a multi-million-dollar product line that addresses cutting edge applications with high growth and tight time-to-market expectations. Joining a highly experienced and growing team in a fast-paced business area within a highly respected, market leading company.


Senior Group Manager Responsibilities

• Motivate and engage a multi-disciplinary development team (technicians, mechanical, electrical, and software engineers)
• Manage projects from conception to release through the use of the System Development Process phases to drive project features, staffing needs, and schedule while maintaining aggressive timelines
• Accountable for plan development and program execution to meet scope, cost, and timeline goals while maintaining long-term quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction
• Drive efforts to mitigate risks and constant ability to drive tradeoff decisions within and across projects
• Cross-manage project dependencies by collaborating with other managers and organizations
• Determine resource needs, secure internal and external resources and adjust resource assignments as needed throughout the project
• Identify talent gaps and recommend investment changes to build a more effective team
• Ensure efficient and timely collaboration with R&D teams, manufacturing, hardware services, compliance, test engineering, and other supporting teams to accomplish the release of your product/system
• Effectively communicate program status, tradeoffs, and risks to stakeholders, including senior executives
• Communicate clearly and be able to provide appropriate messaging depending on the audience
• Drive cross organizational resolution of customer quality issues
• Run group and program audit meetings (technical, schedule, status reporting, etc.)
• Directly manage team members by coaching them, identifying opportunities to drive velocity, and removing roadblocks while maintaining priority on their development and career growth
• Be effective at resolving issues and identifying when escalation is appropriate
• Drive a team to deeply understand the customer/industry need in order anticipate problems and think through multiple perspectives for the best overall solution
• Mediate and influence technical discussions and key business trade-offs to facilitate decisions
• Able to extend decision-making skills to business, technical, and customer tradeoffs and communicate clear recommendations
• Able to self-manage and prioritize your own time to make the best day-to-day decisions for yourself, your team, and your projects

Qualifications and Skills

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math)
• 12+ years of combined professional experience (including project and schedule management)
• Proven Project management skills
• Strong cross functional collaboration skills and an ability to influence others without authority
• Experience working with various geographies and functions
• Work effectively in an ambiguous environment
• Communication skills, analytical mindset, and effective problem-solving skills
• Self-driven and motivated individual who can volunteer for new challenges without being asked
• Highly organized and detailed-oriented to manage multiple projects and people simultaneously and effectively
• Effectively prioritize projects and tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years of combined professional experience
• Background designing products (systems, software, and/or hardware)
• 8+ years of experience managing a team of engineers or in a leadership role
• Familiar with Semiconductor design validation tests and workflows
• Background in complex system development
• Hands-on experience using NI software and hardware products
• Previous R&D experience