R&D Operating Mgr

Overview

Business Environment

Responsibilities

• Own planning, tracking, and execution of software releases for PCIe, CXL, and NVMe Protocol Analyzer & Exerciser programs.
• Define project scopes, objectives, deliverables, and timelines in alignment with product and architecture teams.
• Develop detailed schedules, milestone plans, dependency tracking, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead execution checkpoints, release readiness reviews, and cross-team program updates.
• Stay aligned with PCI-SIG specifications, compliance updates, and ecosystem developments.
• Manage day-to-day operations for protocol software programs.
• Drive improvements in execution discipline, documentation quality, and operational workflows.
• Manage external vendor and contractor engineering resources, including planning, tracking, and quality oversight.
• Coordinate with architecture, FPGA/hardware, validation, system engineering, product management, and product planning teams.
• Work closely with Product Planning to gather requirements and ensure feature definition closures.
• Proactively engage with Field teams and customers to gather feedback and understand requests.
• Prepare high-quality reports, updates, and dashboards for leadership.
• Establish, track, and communicate KPIs across productivity, milestones, and quality.

Required Qualifications

• 7–14 years of experience in program/project/operations management.
• Experience in complex software or system engineering programs.
• Understanding of PCIe, CXL, NVMe, or related interconnect protocols.
• Experience managing internal and vendor/contractor engineering teams.
• Strong skills in planning, tracking, risk management, and execution governance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with FPGA-based systems, protocol tools, exercisers/analyzers.
• Familiarity with PCIe Gen6/Gen7, CXL 2.0/3.0, NVMe 2.0.
• Exposure to PCI-SIG working groups or compliance ecosystems.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• PM certifications such as PMP or CSM.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong organizational skills and disciplined execution.
• Ability to bring clarity and structure to complex programs.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and strong ownership mindset.