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Your Role
We’re looking for a Director of Manufacturing and Program Delivery to lead our Technical Program Management and Product Realization teams within the Hardware Business Unit. You’ll be a working leader responsible for optimizing our global operational processes and ensuring we deliver high-quality hardware at scale.
In this role, you’ll:
- Drive process excellence. You’ll establish and run our New Product Introduction (NPI) process, developing the templates and tools needed to mature our hardware business operations.
- Develop manufacturing relationships. You’ll partner with our strategic sourcing leaders to manage ODM and JDM relationships, ensuring we have the right technical requirements in our business contracts for successful development.
- Lead a global team. You’ll empower a team of Technical Program Managers and Product Realization Leads, focusing on their career growth and technical development while fostering a healthy team culture.
- Optimize delivery. By partnering with our Hardware Senior Scrum Master, you’ll align hardware and software schedules to support seamless, interdependent program delivery. You’ll also help us connect with the software programs developed by other areas of the business to deliver value to our customers.
Our priority is to hire someone for this role who lives near our office in Nebraska, but we're also open to remote candidates who live in the following states: AL, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WI, WY.
Must-Haves
- An experienced leader. You have 10+ years of hardware experience with at least five years spent formally leading direct reports and managing their performance and development.
- Expert in NPI. You have a proven track record of using New Product Introduction processes to bring physical products to market in an Agile environment.
- A strategic problem-solver. You can link complex business systems and tools to product development goals, and you’re comfortable presenting program risks and status to senior executives.
- Manufacturing savvy. You’re experienced in working with ODM/JDM partnerships and understand how to navigate the business terms and contracts required for global manufacturing.
Nice-to-Haves
- Advanced education. A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Operations is great, but an MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
- Continuous improvement certified. If you hold a Lean Manufacturing certification or a Six Sigma Green/Black Belt, we’d love to hear about it.
- Technical tool fluency. Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools, Jira and Smartsheets will help you hit the ground running.
- Global perspective. You’ve managed geographically diverse teams and are comfortable with domestic and international travel (up to 20%) to stay connected with our partners.
Our Role
- Champion work-life harmony. We’ll give you the flexibility you need in your work life (e.g., flexible vacation time, company-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) days, remote work options and more) so you can enjoy your personal life too.
- Guarantee autonomy. We have an open, honest culture and we trust our people from day one. Your team will support you, but you’ll own your work and have the agency to try new ideas.
- Encourage career growth. We’re lifelong learners who encourage professional development. We’ll give you tons of resources and opportunities to keep growing.
- Provide an environment to help you succeed. We've invested in our offices, designing incredible spaces with our employees in mind. But whether you’re at the office or working remotely, we’ll provide you the tech stack and hardware to do your best work.
- Support your mental and physical health. We care about our employees’ wellbeing. Our Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups and fitness partner Peerfit have you covered.
- Cover your medicalinsurance. We have multiple plans to pick from to ensure you’ll have the coverage you (and your dependents) want, including vision, dental, fertility healthcare and family forming benefits.
- Contribute to your 401(K). Yep, that’s free money. We’ll match up to 4% of your own contribution.
Compensation
Inclusion at Hudl
Hudl is an equal opportunity employer. Through our actions, behaviors and attitude, we’ll create an environment where everyone, no matter their differences, feels like they belong.
We offer resources to ensure our employees feel safe bringing their authentic selves to work, including employee resource groups and communities. But we recognize there’s ongoing work to be done, which is why we track our efforts and commitments in annual inclusion reports.
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