Zebra Technology Corporation
Technical Hardware Program Manager, Advanced
Zebra Technology Corporation, Holtsville, New York, us, 00501
Remote Work: Hybrid
Overview At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.
Being a part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.
You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward‑thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about – locally and globally.
Come make an impact every day at Zebra.
Technical Hardware Program Manager, Advanced Serving as a key Hardware Program Manager for the Advanced Location Technologies (ALT) business unit, the Technical Hardware Program Manager, Advanced, is a senior technical development leader who operates across all levels of the company. This role is pivotal in driving strategic hardware initiatives and product creation, with a primary focus on championing and implementing established design processes to enhance efficiency and inspire innovation within the Business Unit.
This leader is responsible for guiding cross‑functional electro‑mechanical hardware‑based product teams through influence and expertise, ensuring tight coordination with Engineering and Product Management from initial concept through to deployment to manufacturing. Key responsibilities include meeting complex program goals for product performance, quality, and manufacturability. In close collaboration with Product Management and Engineering, they work to define product requirements, solidify business cases, author development plans and execute commitments.
Given our multitude of design and development partners, you will participate in negotiations involving Business Development, Finance, and Legal.
This role is a minimum of 3‑days per week in either our Holtsville, NY (Long Island) office or Mississauga, Ontario, Canada office.
Responsibilities
Drive execution of hardware product development inclusive of concept definition, requirements, architecture, validation test, and governance compliance to our Lifecycle Management framework.
Organize and present business, technical and program status to Senior Leadership using digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools.
Develop and manage program budgets, ensuring financial activities align with quarterly and annual metrics.
Engage in strategic partnerships with technology companies that are developing adjacent solution elements.
Independently engage additional resources as needed to address program obstacles and delays, taking into consideration schedule and budget, adjusting the project with minimal impact to the business.
Lead system integration planning, release management, and planning for demonstrations, proof of concepts and pilots.
Lead multiple moderately complex projects simultaneously or manage a large program with cross‑functional teams in numerous locations and time zones.
Translate customer problems into solutions requirements.
Build relationships and work across all relevant areas of the solution business including Sales, Services, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Operations and Support.
Work independently with business in defining proof of value and customer’s return on investment.
Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the business functions and processes in which the program is operating.
Motivate a project team to ensure solutions are reliable and of quality, in a highly collaborative fashion.
Demonstrate the ability to see cross‑functional impacts of decisions and project plans and execution.
Coordinate deliverables and project assets to assist the project team.
Anticipate and address obstacles or issues that are moderate to significant in severity and escalates complex issues to management for assistance.
Engage additional resources as needed to address obstacles or delays. Adjust the plan per management guidelines as delays or obstacles are experienced.
Demonstrate advanced understanding of development processes and product launch scope and activities.
Coaches or acts as escalation point for less senior program managers.
Support early stage go‑to‑market activities and transition to marketing.
Explore and understand competitive landscape in both product and business terms.
Initiate strategic partnerships with technology companies, including startups, that are developing adjacent new cutting‑edge solution elements.
Work closely with Portfolio Management to ensure strategic goals align and are represented in the innovation feature roadmap. Assist in the development of business plans, strategies and approaches to take advantage of business opportunities.
Partner with Zebra Ventures to identify entities that are added‑value to your business and solutions.
Lead the creation of cross‑functional workstreams and drive execution for sales enablement, development and deployment.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications
BS Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree, or related technical BS degree, with MS preferred.
Minimum 8+ years of experience in Engineering/Program management and Scrum Master experience for hardware products in fast paced environment.
Minimum 8+ years of product development with 4+ years being in program management.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in hardware product development for consumer or enterprise products (such as cell phones, wearables, tablets, laptops, IoT devices, etc.) highly desirable.
Strong strategic leadership and analytical skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Solid critical thinking and questioning skills.
Self‑motivated, results driven, manages risks, and thrives in an environment of uncertainty and continuous innovation.
Ability to drive definition and creation of solutions from skeleton use cases.
Past responsibility for multiple significant delivered-to‑market solutions in asset intelligence (Location Services, Machine Learning, Machine Vision).
Experience working independently and as part of a team to solve difficult technical, quality, cost, and schedule challenges; well versed in risk management practices.
Ability to translate customer problems into solution requirements, plan for demonstrations, proof of concepts and customer pilots, early‑stage go‑to‑market demonstrating proof of value.
Zebra is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at workplace.accommodations@zebra.com. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Know Your Rights:
https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf
Conozca sus Derechos:
https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRightsSp_10_20.pdf
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Zebra is a federal contractor and is committed to an alcohol and drug free workplace. As a result, all U.S. based employees are subject to the Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace Policy and Procedure.
Zebra Technologies is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We are also committed to giving people with disabilities the same opportunity to access our services and allowing them to benefit from the same services, in the same place and in a similar way as other clients. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and meeting our accessibility requirements under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and Ontario’s accessibility laws. In keeping with these commitments, for any applicant, employee or customer that needs accessibility assistance, kindly direct all inquiries to
workplace.acc@zebra.com .
Zebra Total Rewards includes more than just pay and is structured to meet the needs of our changing global business and evolving talent. We are committed to providing our employees with a benefits program that is comprehensive and competitive – including healthcare, wellness, inclusion networks, and continued learning and development offerings. We offer community service days, in addition to the traditional insurances, compensation, parental leave, employee assistance program and paid time off offerings depending on the country where you work.
Salary:
USD 136,100.00 – USD 204,100.00 Yearly
Salary offered will vary depending on your location, job‑related skills, knowledge, and experience. Additionally, all Zebra roles are eligible for cash incentive programs. For example, sales roles have additional opportunity to earn substantial variable compensation tied to quota achievement. In most other roles, the Zebra annual cash incentive program links Company and individual performance together. Some roles may also be eligible for long‑term incentive equity awards.
To protect candidates from falling victim to online fraudulent activity involving fake job postings and employment offers, please be aware our recruiters will always connect with you via @zebra.com email accounts. Applications are only accepted through our applicant tracking system and only accept personal identifying information through that system. Our Talent Acquisition team will not ask for you to provide personal identifying information via e‑mail or outside of the system. If you are a victim of identity theft contact your local police department.
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Overview At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.
Being a part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.
You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward‑thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about – locally and globally.
Come make an impact every day at Zebra.
Technical Hardware Program Manager, Advanced Serving as a key Hardware Program Manager for the Advanced Location Technologies (ALT) business unit, the Technical Hardware Program Manager, Advanced, is a senior technical development leader who operates across all levels of the company. This role is pivotal in driving strategic hardware initiatives and product creation, with a primary focus on championing and implementing established design processes to enhance efficiency and inspire innovation within the Business Unit.
This leader is responsible for guiding cross‑functional electro‑mechanical hardware‑based product teams through influence and expertise, ensuring tight coordination with Engineering and Product Management from initial concept through to deployment to manufacturing. Key responsibilities include meeting complex program goals for product performance, quality, and manufacturability. In close collaboration with Product Management and Engineering, they work to define product requirements, solidify business cases, author development plans and execute commitments.
Given our multitude of design and development partners, you will participate in negotiations involving Business Development, Finance, and Legal.
This role is a minimum of 3‑days per week in either our Holtsville, NY (Long Island) office or Mississauga, Ontario, Canada office.
Responsibilities
Drive execution of hardware product development inclusive of concept definition, requirements, architecture, validation test, and governance compliance to our Lifecycle Management framework.
Organize and present business, technical and program status to Senior Leadership using digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools.
Develop and manage program budgets, ensuring financial activities align with quarterly and annual metrics.
Engage in strategic partnerships with technology companies that are developing adjacent solution elements.
Independently engage additional resources as needed to address program obstacles and delays, taking into consideration schedule and budget, adjusting the project with minimal impact to the business.
Lead system integration planning, release management, and planning for demonstrations, proof of concepts and pilots.
Lead multiple moderately complex projects simultaneously or manage a large program with cross‑functional teams in numerous locations and time zones.
Translate customer problems into solutions requirements.
Build relationships and work across all relevant areas of the solution business including Sales, Services, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Operations and Support.
Work independently with business in defining proof of value and customer’s return on investment.
Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the business functions and processes in which the program is operating.
Motivate a project team to ensure solutions are reliable and of quality, in a highly collaborative fashion.
Demonstrate the ability to see cross‑functional impacts of decisions and project plans and execution.
Coordinate deliverables and project assets to assist the project team.
Anticipate and address obstacles or issues that are moderate to significant in severity and escalates complex issues to management for assistance.
Engage additional resources as needed to address obstacles or delays. Adjust the plan per management guidelines as delays or obstacles are experienced.
Demonstrate advanced understanding of development processes and product launch scope and activities.
Coaches or acts as escalation point for less senior program managers.
Support early stage go‑to‑market activities and transition to marketing.
Explore and understand competitive landscape in both product and business terms.
Initiate strategic partnerships with technology companies, including startups, that are developing adjacent new cutting‑edge solution elements.
Work closely with Portfolio Management to ensure strategic goals align and are represented in the innovation feature roadmap. Assist in the development of business plans, strategies and approaches to take advantage of business opportunities.
Partner with Zebra Ventures to identify entities that are added‑value to your business and solutions.
Lead the creation of cross‑functional workstreams and drive execution for sales enablement, development and deployment.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications
BS Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree, or related technical BS degree, with MS preferred.
Minimum 8+ years of experience in Engineering/Program management and Scrum Master experience for hardware products in fast paced environment.
Minimum 8+ years of product development with 4+ years being in program management.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in hardware product development for consumer or enterprise products (such as cell phones, wearables, tablets, laptops, IoT devices, etc.) highly desirable.
Strong strategic leadership and analytical skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Solid critical thinking and questioning skills.
Self‑motivated, results driven, manages risks, and thrives in an environment of uncertainty and continuous innovation.
Ability to drive definition and creation of solutions from skeleton use cases.
Past responsibility for multiple significant delivered-to‑market solutions in asset intelligence (Location Services, Machine Learning, Machine Vision).
Experience working independently and as part of a team to solve difficult technical, quality, cost, and schedule challenges; well versed in risk management practices.
Ability to translate customer problems into solution requirements, plan for demonstrations, proof of concepts and customer pilots, early‑stage go‑to‑market demonstrating proof of value.
Zebra is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at workplace.accommodations@zebra.com. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Know Your Rights:
https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf
Conozca sus Derechos:
https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRightsSp_10_20.pdf
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Zebra is a federal contractor and is committed to an alcohol and drug free workplace. As a result, all U.S. based employees are subject to the Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace Policy and Procedure.
Zebra Technologies is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We are also committed to giving people with disabilities the same opportunity to access our services and allowing them to benefit from the same services, in the same place and in a similar way as other clients. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and meeting our accessibility requirements under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and Ontario’s accessibility laws. In keeping with these commitments, for any applicant, employee or customer that needs accessibility assistance, kindly direct all inquiries to
workplace.acc@zebra.com .
Zebra Total Rewards includes more than just pay and is structured to meet the needs of our changing global business and evolving talent. We are committed to providing our employees with a benefits program that is comprehensive and competitive – including healthcare, wellness, inclusion networks, and continued learning and development offerings. We offer community service days, in addition to the traditional insurances, compensation, parental leave, employee assistance program and paid time off offerings depending on the country where you work.
Salary:
USD 136,100.00 – USD 204,100.00 Yearly
Salary offered will vary depending on your location, job‑related skills, knowledge, and experience. Additionally, all Zebra roles are eligible for cash incentive programs. For example, sales roles have additional opportunity to earn substantial variable compensation tied to quota achievement. In most other roles, the Zebra annual cash incentive program links Company and individual performance together. Some roles may also be eligible for long‑term incentive equity awards.
To protect candidates from falling victim to online fraudulent activity involving fake job postings and employment offers, please be aware our recruiters will always connect with you via @zebra.com email accounts. Applications are only accepted through our applicant tracking system and only accept personal identifying information through that system. Our Talent Acquisition team will not ask for you to provide personal identifying information via e‑mail or outside of the system. If you are a victim of identity theft contact your local police department.
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