Associate Program Manager

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and a leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, our innovative microinverter technology revolutionized solar power, making it a safer, more reliable, and scalable energy source. Today, the Enphase Energy System enables users to make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the most successful and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with more than 80 million products shipped across 160 countries.

Join our dynamic teams designing and developing next-gen energy technologies and help drive a sustainable future

This role at Enphase requires working onsite 3 days a week, with plans to transition back to a full 5 day in office schedule over time.

About the Role

Enphase is looking for a dynamic, experienced Program Manager to help drive some of our Micro-Inverter projects. You will lead program management efforts between cross-functional teams – Product Management, SW/FW Engineering, HW Engineering, Manufacturing, QA team and deliver the project on-time, within budget and quality.

In this position, you will develop, manage, and drive the end-to-end execution of HW, SW/FW throughout the product development lifecycle and delivery stages. We are looking for someone who is flexible and can respond quickly, energetically, and enthusiastically to changes.

- Ensure product hardware, software and firmware requirements are clearly defined
- Break down complex software/hardware issues into simple tasks
- Develop and oversee comprehensive project plans
- Identify and handle program cross-functional dependencies between teams
- Communicate development milestones, project schedules and status updates and drive alignment across the organization and between teams
- Coordinate with teams to identify, prioritize and track risks to schedule and product quality
- Drive software / firmware factory readiness in support of hardware builds
- Coordinate multiple validation plans across teams
- Understand engineering issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key partners for decision-making
- Grasp complex technical topics and abstract key issues and risks into an actionable
- Synthesize large amounts of data into a clear story and communicate to partners and organizations at all levels
- Maintain an orientation toward teamwork and collaboration
- Provide regular program status updates and communicate escalations as needed to executive team

Who You Are:

You are a highly engaged and self-driven project professional with incredible sense of ownership with the ability to drive project with minimal supervision. You have proven experience of managing both large complex projects and programs, budgets and justifying resource needs to senior. Able to think strategically and execute methodically with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment. You have excellent communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills that will enable you to earn trust at all levels and across geographies. Ability to facilitate meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions to push execution and alignment on organizational initiatives. Recognize the importance and are proficient in executing key areas of change management.

Requirements

- BTech/MTech in Engineering (Mech/Electrical/Electronics) with 6-8 years of total relevant experience
- PMP, CSM, SaFE or similar certifications preferred. MBA will be an added plus
- 4+ years of proven experience as a Program Manager in a Product company managing Product development and delivering high quality HW/Embedded products, consistently on-time.
- Experience working in cost reduction projects would be added plus.
- Experience using project management, task, and ticketing software; Planview, Atlassian, Jira, MS Project, or similar
- Experience using collaboration and team management applications; Microsoft Teams, Slack, SharePoint or similar
- Understanding of HW/FW/SW development processes and test validation including HW manufacturing support. Strong software development background
- Track record of shipping products and managing them through the entire product life cycle
- Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles/Agile development models
- Remain calm and flexible in times of ambiguity
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with diverse teams and interact, influence, collaborate, and negotiate effectively at all levels of management.
- Ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems, conflicts
- Serve as the point of contact between multiple internal and external teams
- Should possess excellent co-ordination skills.