Senior Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead cross-functional teams encompassing electrical, software, RF, mechanical, and project coordination.

• Facilitate the delivery of customer development agreements and product launches.

• Oversee strategic customer interactions, including Annual Development Agreements.

• Take ownership of project scope, timeline, and budget management.

• Communicate updates regarding project changes, risks, and strategies for mitigation.

• Manage several concurrent projects with changing priorities and evolving technical requirements.

• Act as the primary external contact for assigned projects.

• Foster technical and program-level discussions with customer stakeholders.

• Lead both internal and external project meetings.

• Prepare and present executive-level project reviews and status updates.

• Ensure projects comply with Digi's engineering quality standards and documented processes, including SDLC, stage-gate, and time-tracking.

• Identify and resolve issues to maintain project timelines.

• Document lessons learned and promote process improvements within the Design Services team.

• Encourage effective utilization of Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence, and financial tracking systems.

• Lead product development and integration projects involving embedded systems, IoT devices, Digi ConnectCore SOMs, Android/Linux drivers, MCU/XBee modules, and cellular connectivity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

• 8–12+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8–10 years with a Master's degree; or equivalent experience.

• A minimum of 8 years of technical project management experience.

• Proven leadership in full product lifecycle development projects, including tracking, planning, budgeting, and scheduling.

• Experience in managing engineering teams and customer-facing deliverables, preferably in an embedded systems or IoT setting.

• A solid history of delivering projects punctually and within budget in a multidisciplinary environment.

• Experience in cultivating successful customer relationships, particularly with large or strategic clients.

• Expertise in scope management, scheduling, and budgeting for product development initiatives.

• Capability to lead business development endeavors, including proposal drafting and customer engagement.

• Ability to drive changes across the organization, product, customer, tool, process, and metrics.

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence, and Excel.

• Exceptional communication and leadership abilities, including the capacity to influence stakeholders at all levels, including C-suite executives.

• Ability to manage strategic customer relationships and serve as a trusted partner to both internal and external stakeholders.

• PMP or PgMP certification is highly preferred.

• Experience with NetSuite SuiteProjects is advantageous.

• Familiarity with quality management systems and regulated development environments is preferred.

• Experience in complex, highly technical internal engineering settings is preferred.

• Valid work authorization in the United States at the time of application is required.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive program.

• New hire stock award.

• Paid parental leave.

• Open (uncapped) PTO.

• Hybrid work environment.

• Medical, health, and wellbeing offerings.

• Competitive compensation packages.

• Equal employment opportunities.

• Environment that promotes diversity and inclusion.