Engineering Program Manager, Acacia (onsite)

Technical Engineering Program Manager

Join the Acacia team, which takes pride in providing and fostering a collaborative environment to ensure success and personal growth. The Acacia Communications team designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G, 1T+ bit speeds, and beyond, fiber optic transmission markets deployed in hyperscale and webscale data centers. We also service Metro, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul telecommunication networks. You will collaborate with our Sales and Support teams (SAE's), supporting our tier 1 customers as a liaison between the customer and our entire development and operations teams.

As a Technical Engineering Program Manager, you will be working very closely with the Acacia SAE, Sales, Engineering, and operations teams on a variety of product delivery tracks. You will thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment while taking the time to build relationships and drive consensus. You are curious and seek to understand Optical Network Technology and markets, ranging from technical tradeoffs to business drivers and your team members perspectives and challenges. You are courageous and call out issues you see, collaborating to find solutions. You are dedicated and drive issues to closure, rolling up your sleeves from day one. You are dedicated to continuous improvement, always striving to enhance and optimize outcomes. You are typically the most organized person in the room and coupled with your communication skills, you excel at bringing people together in a shared understanding.

Key Responsibilities :

• Support, track and manage complex program execution, multi-functional coordination, and inter / intra team communications to deliver outstanding, high quality program outcomes.
• Clearly communicate, articulate, and in some cases negotiate customer requirements and expectations for traceable and executable results.
• Work closely with Acacia Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Product Management teams to define project scope, objectives, deliverables and timelines.
• Lead the product's release plans and set customer expectations on delivery of new products and / or new product features.
• Bring the right people together to identify risks and dependencies, define and adjust plans to mitigate and manage accordingly.
• Monitor program progress and effectively communicate status, updates to both internal and external teams.
• Coordinate and lead activities with customer, integration, verification and quality teams, to ensure products meet functional and performance specifications in Cisco and other 3rd party platforms.
• Drive day-to-day program activities to meet overall program objectives
• Resolve conflicts by focusing on shared purpose and mutual understanding
• Drive retrospectives and measurable process improvement efforts

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada :

The starting salary range posted for this position is $134,300.00 to $195,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and / or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies :