Description
As a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, you will lead multiple teams and managers responsible for developing complex, high-performance networking hardware, directly impacting product roadmap execution, business results, and long-term platform strategy.
You will provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for multiple hardware engineering teams designing electrical and electronic subsystems, integrated circuitry, and platform solutions.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage headcount, budgets, schedules, and deliverables across multiple concurrent programs
- Drive execution from architecture alignment through mass production, ensuring quality, reliability, and cost targets are achieved
- Partner closely with program management, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, architecture leaders, and executives to communicate status, escalate risks, and influence strategic decisions
- Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology direction, organizational capability, and long-term investment strategy
- Lead cross-organizational execution, enabling alignment across engineering, operations, and external partners
- Manage relationships with outsourced development partners and suppliers, setting clear expectations around quality, cost, delivery, and accountability
- Proactively identify process improvements, efficiency gains, and cost-reduction opportunities across teams and programs
- Provide overall people-care leadership, including hiring, talent development, performance management, succession planning, and organizational design
- Foster a strong culture of engineering rigor, accountability, mentorship, and continuous improvement across the organization
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline; advanced degree preferred
- Typically, 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years of people management, preferably managing managers and senior technical staff
- Proven ability to apply expert-level technical knowledge to guide teams solving complex hardware and system-level challenges
- Strong background in hardware design, validation, and product development lifecycles, enabling credible technical leadership
- Advanced leadership skills in coaching, team building, conflict resolution, and performance management
- Demonstrated success managing human capital across geographies, driving capability growth and consistent execution
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to balance technical excellence, cost, schedule, and risk
- Exceptional communication skills, able to engage and influence engineers, peers, and executive stakeholders
- Comfortable operating in high-ambiguity, high-impact environments, with strong prioritization and decision-making skills