Senior Project Manager #1365

Senior Project Manager

What We Offer

• Project Management of a flagship product line at a global company whose equipment runs in mission-critical networks worldwide.
• A senior, high-visibility role with direct exposure to company management.
• A strong professional environment of experienced engineers, architects and system experts.
• Long-term stability alongside genuine technological depth, and room to shape how the organization delivers.

Key Responsibilities

Multi-Disciplinary Coordination (SW / HW / QA / FPGA). Align embedded software, hardware, FPGA and QA plans into one integrated schedule.

coordinate hardware bring-up, board-software integration, FPGA image drops and system-level test cycles so that integration is planned.

Lead the routine — run program forums: planning sessions, status and sync meetings, and release go/no-go decisions.

Technical as well as administrative role - read the specifications, understand the architecture and its trade-offs, challenge estimates on their technical merit, and on the other hand also see that the project has all the required resources to realize the target – Time, People, Equipment.

Interface with stakeholders — serve as the R&D delivery interface to Product Management, Sales (including gap/requirement response processes), Operations and Technical Support.

Program Schedule and Time-to-Market ownership.

Build and maintain the program schedule and GANTT, translate feature requests into realistic delivery and impact assessment, identify bottlenecks, and long-lead dependencies.

Requirements

Must Have

• Solid background and experience in telecom and Carrier Ethernet, including service demarcation, OAM/SLA assurance, QoS and synchronization in service-provider access networks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of project or program management experience in a product development organization, including full ownership of complex, multi-team schedules end to end.
• Proven experience managing programs that combine embedded software and hardware development.
• Hands-on experience with project management and planning tools (e.g. Monday.com, MS Project, Jira or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of development methodologies (Agile / Scrum / Waterfall / hybrid).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Able to work effectively with engineers, architects, product managers, sales and senior management.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct managerial authority.
• Fluent English (written and spoken) and Hebrew.

Advantage

• Experience in programs involving FPGA and ASIC development alongside software and hardware.
• Previous experience as a software or hardware engineer, team leader or system engineer before moving into project management.
• Familiarity with embedded Linux based platforms.