Principal Program Manager

Major Areas of Responsibility / Essential Functions


* Own end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of concurrent, high-complexity programs, aligning scope, schedule, cost, and quality with organizational strategy.


* Establish and continuously champion program management standards, tools, and governance across the organization.


* Serve as the primary program-level interface to executive leadership, translating program status, risk, and trade-offs into clear business decisions.


* Lead cross-functional teams (engineering, product management, quality, operations, supply chain, and marketing) without formal authority, driving accountability and alignment.

Specific Responsibilities


* Build and maintain integrated master schedules across hardware, firmware, and software workstreams, modeling scenarios and stress-testing critical paths.


* Lead proactive risk management: identify, quantify, and mitigate program risk, flagging emerging issues before they impact delivery.


* Conduct resource capacity planning and demand forecasting across the program portfolio to anticipate bottlenecks.


* Own program financials: budget, cost tracking, and forecast-to-actual variance reporting.


* Allocate resources, budget, and hours across the program portfolio, and proactively adjust allocations as priorities, risks, or constraints shift.


* Drive structured after-action reviews and retrospectives; convert lessons learned into process improvements and playbooks.


* Translate product and business requirements into detailed, phase-gated implementation plans.


* Track, evaluate, and communicate the impact of program-level changes, maintaining a clear decision and change log for stakeholders.


* Prepare status reports, executive summaries, meeting notes, and program documentation, using AI tools to accelerate drafting where helpful, with sound judgment on review and accuracy before distribution.


* Evaluate and pilot new program and project management tools, capabilities, and workflows; recommend adoption where they create measurable efficiency or quality gains.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities


* Exceptional communication, organization, and executive-level documentation skills; able to distill complex, multi-workstream programs into clear narratives for senior leadership.


* Demonstrated strategic leadership, sound judgment, and interpersonal influence across all levels of the organization, including without direct authority.


* Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment and to bring structure to complexity.


* Strong working fluency with AI-enabled productivity tools and a demonstrated track record of applying them to improve program outcomes.


* Comfort using data and analytics to drive proactive rather than reactive program management.


* Positively influences managers, peers, cross-functional teams, vendors, and customers; skilled at building...