Engineering Program Manager – SolidFire (4602)

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.

Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. 

You can rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting your data, business, and reputation. We bring together the industry’s best partners and technology to deliver services that help you maximize what you are getting from your infrastructure. Our collaborative approach, working as one team with one goal, means that you get a solution that is just right for you—on time and on budget. 

To support your global business, we provide highly-responsive support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, we’ll work with you to solve your problems and reach your goals.

Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

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Job Summary

Project (Design) Mgr: Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services. Coordinates departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering new or upgrading existing products. Monitors the project from initiation through delivery including planning and directing schedules and monitoring budget/spending. Organizes cross-functional activities, ensuring completion of the project i.e. product on schedule and within budget constraints.

Job Requirements

 * Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential.

 * Excellent analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and organizational skills are required.

 * Excellent knowledge of product lifecycle, tools, processes, and operations planning.

 * Ability to provide leadership in a team environment to meet aggressive goals and pre-defined metrics requirements.

 * Demonstrated experience working with hardware and software development engineers on complex projects.

 * Strong understanding of engineering principles and practices.

 * Program Management training or demonstrated experience.

 * Ability to work on complex issues where analysis situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

 * Ability to develop longer-range project plans and schedules to complete complex projects.Responsibility and Interaction:

Responsibility:

 * The tasks this individual is responsible for are often unstructured, have wide implications and there are multiple outcomes.

 * This individual will apply broad expertise or unique technical/industry knowledge in solving problems that are unique and extremely complex given time, budget and resource constraints.

 * Demonstrate leadership and vision in determining and driving strategy decisions. Interaction:

 * This individual must work effectively with Staff to Vice President level employees within the function, across functions and with external parties.

 * Limited supervision is provided, as this individual can operate, drive results, and set priorities independently.

 * The ideal candidate will be a proactive contributor and subject matter expert.

 * To be successful, this individual must demonstrate favorable results through leadership and influencing multiple individuals and groups.

 * Often acts as mentor or facilitator.

Education

Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.