Engineering Program Manager

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

As a Program Manager you will work with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to drive hardware product development, release to manufacturing, and sustain the product in manufacturing. You will spend ~75% of your time working in the NPI process and 25% in Manufacturing. Strong leadership, communications, and team-building skills are essential.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities:

• Lead a cross-functional team from HW, SW, Central, and Diagnostic engineering, manufacturing, product management, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market.
• Based on the information presented you must be able to predict how delivery slips or quality issues in one function will affect others on the team. Anticipate the impact and prepare contingency plans.
• Create a master schedule that captures and inter-connects the key functional deliverables as defined by the product development lifecycle and ensures the team delivers. Drive and lead development milestone checkpoints.
• Drive, coordinate, and monitor Engineering programs including scheduling, planning,
• product and project cost analysis, early access, & first customer shipment.
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution ensuring issues are identified, owned and
• resolved. Ensure issues are escalated to the appropriate functional leaders.
• Identify and implement product development process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of program management, design engineering, and manufacturing experience in the electronics hardware development environment.
• Exceptional project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills.
• Significant working knowledge of hardware development.
• Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, develop and implement new processes.
• Experience interfacing with product management, internal engineering team, CM’s
• Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders.
• Education: BSEE/ME/IE degree or equivalent. MBA, PMP desirable

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Additional Information

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $121,000 to $187,000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location.

The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. Employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, income protection and a Group Retirement Savings Plan. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location. 

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.