Leading Product Development Manager

2 days ago


Chula Vista, California, United States Jobot Full time

We are seeking an experienced Product Development Manager to join our team at Jobot. In this role, you will be responsible for leading cross-functional teams in the development of new products from concept to launch.

About the Role:
  • Salary: $100,000 - $135,000 per year
  • This is a direct hire opportunity with full benefits and a competitive salary range.

Job Description:

The Senior Product Development Manager has overall responsibility for planning, coordinating and executing new product development projects. The role requires strong leadership skills, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with customers, international engineering teams, and production facilities.

The successful candidate must be able to handle complex projects as well as multiple projects simultaneously. A senior PM demonstrates leadership internally and with customers and provides technical leadership to the team and project. They mentor, train, and assist other members of their teams in technically difficult situations and drive difficult issues to resolution, all while keeping the project stakeholders up to date on project status and forecasted completion dates.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Schedule Management: Generate a detailed schedule for new product development projects.
  2. Risk Management: Work with project team to identify risks and enact mitigation plans.
  3. Customer Interaction: Heavy customer interactions to clearly determine the project definition and objectives.
  4. Technical Leadership: Works with the technical team to design and test the new product.
  5. Quality Assurance: Complies with all Quality System Procedures and Work Instructions.
  6. Communication: Facilitates communication between functions, within affiliates, and customers generally through the product development life cycle.
  7. Resource Allocation: Forecasts resource needs and works with the Engineering Department's management group across all affiliates to align resources with project tasks.
  8. Materials Management: Materials management throughout the development process, pilot run, and into production startup.
  9. Project Champion: Serves as overall champion for driving the project to meet its objectives.
  10. Documentation: Manage all project documentation as required by the Product Development Process.
  11. Project Updates: Publishes regular and timely project status updates.
  12. Budget Management: Generates, tracks, and manages project budget, including resource hours, development costs, and unit costs. Provides regular updates forecasting remaining project expenses.
  13. Customer Communication: Assumes the primary communication role with the customer for all development-related aspects of the project. Works in coordination and supports the Account Manager for customer pricing, development charges, and business relationship issues.
  14. Costing: Leads costing effort while supporting quoting activities of new business opportunities.
  15. Time Management: Makes good use of time and is able to set priorities to meet organizational and departmental goals.
  16. Collaboration: Accepts responsibility and identifies when additional authorization is required to resolve an issue by including management or others when appropriate.
  17. Mentorship: Mentors less experienced Project Managers, assisting them with technical problems; training them on correct project management methods; sharing knowledge and encouraging job and skill growth.
  18. Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None - except under special assignments within the development team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a scientific discipline (i.e. Engineering); with a minimum of five years of related work experience.
  • Knowledge of Engineering Product Development.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Proven leadership skills.
  • Time sensitive (quickly responsive)
  • Able to work well with all levels of employees and customers.
  • Professional in tact, manner, and action.
  • Appropriate balance between project supervision and coordination skills as well as technical engineering skills.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office


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