Vice President Program Management

Our mission to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world allows our employees to be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, creators and number crunchers: makers of things they love.  As we continue to grow, we are excited to add a Vice President of Program Management to our global team.   

OVERVIEW:  

As a Vice President of Program Management for Shark Product Development serve as the program leader to our teams in Needham US, London UK and China.    

The PM leader will maintain detailed views of the dependencies of all deliverables of an integrated connected product schedule. They will be able to rapidly and effectively communicate for impact complex issues to executives, highlighting risks and being able to connect the dots back to the overall program status. An important capability is the ability to spot early stage issues and act on them before they become big: react to smoke rather than fire.   

Here are some of the exciting things you’ll get to do:  

• You will provide program leadership for system integration on new product initiatives. This will include integrated program management of new product initiatives or services from conception through to release and management.  

• The Vice President of Program Management will make sure that work is understood, planned, delivered on time, and delivered with quality  

• The role requires strength in three fundamental aspects of product development:   

• understanding product strategy  

• driving program logistics and schedule  

• Lead a large cross-functional team of high-performing engineers to deliver the software and firmware required at all stages of new product development  

• Establish program milestones, drive alignment towards a common vision, and execute on strategic goals  

• Understand technical requirements, dependencies, and team capabilities, define risk mitigation strategies, identify and communicate risks to all stakeholders, and balance tradeoffs between time, resources, and quality  

• Facilitate teams operating at their most effective by translating concepts into program plans, clarifying priorities, coordinating engineering deliverables, and finding software engineering solutions to unanticipated issues  

• Know how and when to ship quality products and services  

• Work with product and engineering teams to keep programs moving forward using both qualitative and quantitative metrics to advance programs through the shipping cycle  

• Drive program consensus, influence, and rally teams to meet goals  

• Demonstrate a relentless sense of ownership for the success of a program  

• Act as the liaison between the cross-functional teams working on new programs  

   

REQUIRED ATTRIBUTES & SKILLS:  

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical, engineering or related business/management field highly desired  

• 10-15+ years direct Program Management leadership experience in a consumer goods company focusing on home appliances and related categories. 

• Driving all areas of new product development within program ownership  

• Assertive, confident, capable  

• Accountable to deliver all elements of the program, from product ideation to end-of-life  

• Able to cultivate and lead a high performing team that delivers results  

• Excellent written, verbal and communication skills. Experienced addressing C-Suite, Peer Functional Groups, Suppliers, and Customer audiences  

• Cross-functional leadership skills  

• Possess a strong bias to action and accountability  

• Intermediate/working level skills with MS Project (or similar), Excel, PPT and Visio  

• High energy, with a positive attitude  

• Detail oriented  

• Presentation skills – Must be proficient with PowerPoint and be comfortable developing and presenting to large groups including executive management either in person or over MS Teams.