Program Manager

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 5–10 Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 1 Month

Engagement: Turnkey / Engineering Services

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to drive the end-to-end execution of customer ASIC/VLSI engineering projects. The role involves planning, resource coordination, milestone tracking, customer communication, risk management, and ensuring timely delivery of project commitments.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project execution from project kickoff to delivery and closure.
• Understand customer SOW, scope, milestones, deliverables, and priorities and convert them into an execution plan.
• Plan and coordinate engineering resources across multiple workstreams.
• Work closely with RTL, DFT, Verification, STA, Physical Design, FPGA, Firmware, and other engineering teams as applicable.
• Track project progress, milestones, deliverables, effort, and resource utilization.
• Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and schedule deviations.
• Drive closure of technical and execution blockers with engineering leads.
• Coordinate dependencies between customer teams and internal engineering teams.
• Act as the key interface between the customer and internal project teams for execution-related matters.
• Conduct regular project reviews and provide clear status, risks, action items, and recovery plans.
• Manage customer feedback, changing priorities, and scope-related discussions.
• Ensure deliverables are completed on time and meet agreed quality expectations.
• Escalate critical risks, delays, and resource constraints to management in a timely manner.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of experience in ASIC/VLSI/semiconductor engineering with program/project execution experience.
• Strong understanding of the ASIC/SoC development lifecycle.
• Good exposure to one or more areas such as RTL, DFT, Verification, STA, Physical Design, FPGA, or Firmware.
• Strong project planning, tracking, and execution skills.
• Excellent stakeholder and customer management skills.
• Strong ownership, follow-up, problem-solving, and escalation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities simultaneously.
• Experience with Jira, Excel, PowerPoint, and project tracking/reporting tools.
• Good communication and presentation skills.

Preferred

• Experience managing customer-facing semiconductor engineering projects.
• Experience with turnkey engineering services / staff augmentation models.
• Experience coordinating distributed engineering teams.
• Agile/Scrum project management experience.
• PMP/Prince2 or equivalent certification is an advantage.