# Hardware Development Project Manager

**Company**: Cricut
**Location**: South Jordan, UT
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cricut makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything.

As a Hardware Project Manager at Cricut you will interface with all functions necessary to bring highly reliable, best in class, consumer products to market. The primary focus of this position is to plan, facilitate and integrate the development of products within the hardware engineering team and with our manufacturing partners while coordinating with other functional teams to deliver an optimal user experience.

Responsibilities:

- Manage complex electro-mechanical product development projects

- Work as the technical and programmatic focal point and facilitator for development activities

- Prepare and manage project budgets and schedules

- Highlight issues well in advance and leads efforts to develop and implement alternative actions to overcome the issues and maintain the schedule

- Prepare and maintain Issues/Action Item database

- Lead the team in working through complex issues

- Maintain a system's view of the project to identify and manage risks

- Ensure that management and stakeholders are notified of any potential schedule impacts

- Facilitate regular status meetings with both domestic and international teams

- Ensure seamless communication with other functional areas (SW, Product Mgmt, etc.)

- Ensure that all projects are completed in a timely manner

- Coordinate testing activities with engineers and the quality department

- Ensure product performance meets engineering and product specifications through testing and inspection

- Coordinate and manage supplier and contract manufacturing activities to deliver on project objectives

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering strongly preferred

- Working knowledge of software/firmware and some programming background

- Familiar with electronics with the ability to read and understand electrical schematics and wiring diagrams

- 2+ years in project management-related to product development

- Strong communication skills, team work and interpersonal skills

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

- Ability to utilize various technologies and tools to effectively manage projects and provide clear and concise communications to teams and stakeholders

- Adept at Microsoft Project, MS Excel

- Proficiency in Minitab highly desirable

- The ability to understand and apply statistical process control methods is highly desirable including Cpk's, T-Tests, X-Bar/R charts, DOE's, etc.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

- Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

- 401(k) match

- Generous PTO

- Tuition reimbursement

- Yearly lifestyle stipend

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- electro-mechanical product development
- hardware engineering
- manufacturing
- Microsoft Project
- MS Excel
- Minitab
- statistical process control

### Nice to have
- software/firmware
- programming
- electronics
- electrical schematics
- wiring diagrams

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