Location: Bangalore

Experience: 5–10 Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 1 Month

Engagement: Turnkey / Engineering Services

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to drive the end-to-end execution of customer ASIC/VLSI engineering projects. The role involves planning, resource coordination, milestone tracking, customer communication, risk management, and ensuring timely delivery of project commitments.

Key Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end project execution from project kickoff to delivery and closure.
- Understand customer SOW, scope, milestones, deliverables, and priorities and convert them into an execution plan.
- Plan and coordinate engineering resources across multiple workstreams.
- Work closely with RTL, DFT, Verification, STA, Physical Design, FPGA, Firmware, and other engineering teams as applicable.
- Track project progress, milestones, deliverables, effort, and resource utilization.
- Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and schedule deviations.
- Drive closure of technical and execution blockers with engineering leads.
- Coordinate dependencies between customer teams and internal engineering teams.
- Act as the key interface between the customer and internal project teams for execution-related matters.
- Conduct regular project reviews and provide explicit status, risks, action items, and recovery plans.




- Manage customer feedback, changing priorities, and scope-related discussions.
- Ensure deliverables are completed on time and meet agreed quality expectations.
- Escalate critical risks, delays, and resource constraints to management in a timely manner.

Requirements

- 5–10 years of experience in ASIC/VLSI/semiconductor engineering with program/project execution experience.
- Strong understanding of the ASIC/SoC development lifecycle.
- Good exposure to one or more areas such as RTL, DFT, Verification, STA, Physical Design, FPGA, or Firmware.
- Strong project planning, tracking, and execution skills.
- Excellent stakeholder and customer management skills.
- Strong ownership, follow-up, problem-solving, and escalation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities simultaneously.
- Experience with Jira, Excel, PowerPoint, and project tracking/reporting tools.
- Good communication and presentation skills.

Preferred

- Experience managing customer-facing semiconductor engineering projects.
- Experience with turnkey engineering services / staff augmentation models.
- Experience coordinating distributed engineering teams.
- Agile/Scrum project management experience.
- PMP/Prince2 or equivalent certification is an advantage.

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