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Overview:

At Zebra, we extend the edge of possibility by shaping the future of work on the front line—reinventing how businesses run and moving society forward.

We are a community of changemakers, innovators and doers who come together to deliver a performance edge to the front line of business. We develop new technologies and create new solutions with partners to help organizations act with greater visibility, connectivity, and intelligence—delivering better experiences for workers and those they serve.

Being a part of Zebra means being seen, heard, valued, and respected as you define your path to a fulfilling career. Here, you'll have opportunities to learn and lead at a leading company, and you can channel your skills towards causes that you and the Zebra community care about, locally, and globally.

Together, we've only begun to define the edge of what's possible—for our people, our customers, and the world.

Technical Program Manager is responsible for leading a cross functional team of Systems and SW Engineers, Test Engineers, Operations, etc. from initial concept to deployment. Meets complex program goals for product performance, quality goals, regulatory compliance requirements, cost, schedule and development budget. Responsible for working with Product Management, Marketing, and Experience Designers to define the product, solidify the business case, and author the product and experience specifications. Given our multitude of design and development partners, you will participate with negotiations involving Business Development and Legal

Responsibilities:

• Help define requirements with PdM and work with Eng to scope what is needed with respect to technology. TPM should then help drive the gaps identified in technology, to closure. This will provide a more accurate scope of a program.

• The ability to make a “big picture” technical decision by digging into the tradeoffs and compromises along with performance and costs.

• The ability to ask technical questions to probe and understand the underlying risks or issues that may impact other parts of the system.

• Provide guidance when reviewing issues reported during the product HW and SW validation.

• Drive benchmarking activities of the competitive products vs Zebra and be able to articulate the shortcomings of the product and drive the team to take action to close the gaps.

• Drive front and back-end lesson learned

• Integral part of the voice of the customer and should have the ab ility to translate customer problems into solution requirements.

• Lead technical design discussion across functional teams.

• Will be responsible for the execution of multiple moderate to large scope projects.

• Programs will be complex in nature with cross-functional teams in multiple locations

• Responsible for all aspects of program planning and execution fully autonomously

• Organizes cross-functional activities, ensuring program completion, i.e., product on schedule and within budget constraints. Owns regular meeting coordination, facilitation, and documentation of progress.

• Proactively identifies cross-functional impacts of decisions, project plans, and execution.

• Balances scope, schedule, and budget considerations to adjust the project w/minimal impact to the business. Understands the business objectives of the business unit and program.

• Assumes self and indirect project team’s accountability for program success against the objectives.

• Drive execution of solutions inclusive of concept definition, requirements validation, architecture specification, and governance compliance to our Application Lifecycle Management framework.

• Leads system integration planning, release management, and planning for demonstrations, proof of concepts and pilots.

• Organizes and presents business, technical and program reviews/status to Senior Leadership using digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools

• Prepare and influentially present status updates and other deliverables to senior level audiences

• Independently engages additional resources as needed to address obstacles/delays.

• Proactively provides recommendations for issue resolution. Adjusts the plan as delays/obstacles are experienced.

• Establishes operational objectives and delegates assignments to achieve business results

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of all PM techniques. Utilizes PM tools & techniques in scheduling & staffing plans with an understanding of task duration and dependencies.

• Develops comprehensive risk management plans.

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of development processes and product launch scope and activities.

• Develop and protect intellectual property; be well versed with IP fundamentals.

• Team leadership for scaled Agile cross-functional innovation teams. Contribute to and promote the development of agile skillset and capabilities within Zebra. Execute multiple limited scope projects simultaneously or a large program with senior manager’s guidance utilizing modern project management methodologies to ensure maximum project effectiveness

• Independently coordinates deliverables and project assets to assist the project team. Personally, anticipates and addresses obstacles or issues that are moderate to significant in severity and escalates complex issues to management for assistance. Independently engages additional resources as needed to address obstacles or delays. Adjusts the plan per management guidelines as delays or obstacles are experienced.

• Independently building relationships and working across all relevant areas of the solution business including Sales, Services, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Support.

• Demonstrates ability to navigate complex problems and overcome ambiguity with limited manager oversight

• anager oversight

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree, or related fields with 8 + years Engineering/Program management and Scrum Master experience for products in fast paced environment. Advanced degree preferred.

• Experience with hardware product development and developing programs from concept to production.

  Key Skills and Competencies:

• Strong strategic leadership and analytical skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Solid critical thinking and questioning skills

• Self-motivated, results driven, manages risks, and thrives in an environment of uncertainty and continuous innovation. Able to drive definition and creation of solutions from skeleton use cases

• Past responsibility for multiple significant delivered-to market solutions in asset intelligence (Location Services, o Machine Learning, Machine Vision)

• Experience with software development best practices including Scaled Agile, TDD and Continuous Integration; a track record of applying these methodologies

• Experience with Cloud development and Software/Services development integration, as well as mobile application development for Android or iOS.

• Experience working independently and as part of a team to solve difficult technical, quality, cost, and schedule challenges; well versed in risk management practices

  Zebra is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability and protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at workplace.accommodations@zebra.com. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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Zebra Total Rewards includes more than just pay and is structured to meet the needs of our changing global business and evolving talent. We are committed to providing our employees with a benefits program that is comprehensive and competitive – including healthcare, wellness, inclusion networks, and continued learning and development offerings. We offer community service days, in addition to the traditional insurances, compensation, parental leave, employee assistance program and paid time off offerings depending on the country where you work.

Salary: USD 133000.00 - USD 199400.00 Yearly

Salary offered will vary depending on your location, job-related skills, knowledge, and experience.

Additionally, all Zebra roles are eligible for cash incentive programs. For example, sales roles have additional opportunity to earn substantial variable compensation tied to quota achievement. In most other roles, the Zebra annual cash incentive program links Company and individual performance together. Some roles may also be eligible for long-term incentive equity awards.

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