# Hardware Project Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,100.00 to $196,500.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The hardware engineering group at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era. As a Hardware Project Manager, you will lead end-to-end hardware project development from initial concept through customer release.

Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end hardware project development from initial concept through customer release, defining clear priorities, breakthroughs, and comprehensive execution plans.

- Orchestrate projects by aligning hardware and software engineering, product management, and operations teams to ensure cohesive delivery.

- Proactively monitor project health, identify risks and dependencies, and drive timely issue resolution through actionable recommendations to partners.

- Champion continuous process improvements, governance frameworks, and the integration of automation and AI-enabled tools to enhance operational efficiency.

- Manage financial integrity and resource allocation, ensuring that budgets are tracked accurately and projects remain within scope and on schedule.

- Facilitate seamless collaboration between internal teams, manufacturing partners, and external suppliers while providing transparent status updates to leadership.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering with 5+ years of experience or a master’s degree in engineering with 3+ years of experience in technical hardware project management or hardware/product development

- Experience applying Jira and Confluence to track project dependencies, risks, and issue resolution.

- Experience handling end-to-end projects including budget oversight, schedule management, and breakthrough tracking.

- Experience in advanced spreadsheet management, including the use of data modeling and visualization to track project metrics.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience implementing AI-powered tools or workflows to improve operational efficiency or project delivery speed.

- Demonstrated experience with Design Verification Testing (DVT) processes within hardware development lifecycles

- In-depth knowledge of hardware manufacturing environments and production workflows

- Background in supply chain operations or procurement strategies for complex hardware programs

- Current project management certification (e.g., PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2)

- Proven ability to navigate and influence outcomes in a highly matrixed, globally distributed organization

- Experience balancing rapid program execution with long-term operational and quality priorities

- Familiarity with managing cross-functional dependencies in fast-paced engineering environments

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Jira
- Confluence
- hardware project management
- budget oversight
- schedule management
- spreadsheet management
- data modeling
- visualization

### Nice to have
- AI-powered tools
- Design Verification Testing (DVT)
- hardware manufacturing environments
- supply chain operations
- procurement strategies
- project management certification
- cross-functional dependencies

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