Technical Program Manager at 1000 KLA Corporation — Milpitas, CA

Company Overview

Group/Division

• Lead programs with cutting edge technology in optics, sensor, sources, and image acquisition and processing.
• Drive technical program development in semi-conductor capital equipment.
• Responsible for the product from proving business case to design, development, implementation, continuous improvement, and sustaining support.
• Identify and manage program and technical risks throughout the life cycle of the product. Establish and actively manage mitigation plans to reduce and retire risks.
• Drive technology prototyping, problem solving and risk retirement of in-house development and at vendors.
• Drive requirements for design improvements and customer focused features per defined timelines.
• System engineering and or engineering domain experience developing products.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, service, marketing, and customer to create productive working relationships.
• Ensure programs objectives are delivered on schedule and within budget.
• Experience developing detailed project schedules, tracking, and monitoring milestones to ensure on-time release by holding functional engineering leaders accountable.
• Direct management and management through influence of a diverse team.
• Diverse audience communication and presentation skills with professional temperament in challenging situations.
• Continued improvement and enhancements of critical subsystems and components.
• Manage customer expectations working with cross disciplinary teams to ensure performance and reliability targets.
• Ability to manage seamlessly a portfolio of products and define priorities.
• Ability to identify and develop talent to create future leaders.

Minimum Qualifications

• The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of engineering experience in technical program manager role with both technical and business development responsibilities.
• Track record of delivering products on-schedule.
• Candidate must have subject matter expertise in one or more areas - advanced sensors, optics, or sources.  System level experience with broad understanding of component technologies is also acceptable.
• Ability to drive program schedules, COGS, value-based pricing, and market share.
• Innovative ways to create features that add value and optimize schedule while not impacting performance.
• Creative problem solver with a proven track record of solving complex technical issues.
• Understand and apply Systems Engineering principles in product development, sustaining, and improvements.
• Candidate should have engineering expertise that is deep in at least one area and broad across other engineering disciplines and ability to quickly learn new information.
• Must have strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, accountability, awareness of critical priorities, ability to manage ambiguity, effective communication & presentation skills including C level.
• Resilience in handling challenging situations, need to be self-driven, hardworking, detail oriented, with a can-do attitude and a critical thinker.
• Ability to prioritize project demands, motivate, delegate, and empower cross-functional team.
• Experience in semiconductor manufacturing and a proven success and track record in leading multidisciplinary teams to successfully launch and/or manage transition of a capital equipment product is a plus.
• Work with Engineering organization to orient the team by addressing schedule, establishing priorities, and presenting changes through regular meetings.
• Work with the service and manufacturing organizations to establish and meet requirements for production ramping and lifetime maintenance.
• Own the optimization of ROI for the product.
• Work closely with Marketing & Sales teams, understand business opportunities, customer use cases, and market trends.
• Directly engage with customers along with Marketing & Sales teams, drive customer adoptions of tools and features/options.
• Provide guidance or help in roadmap, business, and market aspects for related products at KLA.

Base Pay Range: $195,600.00 - $332,500.00 Annually

Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA