Company Generac Power Systems
Name Engineering Project Manager, Firmware
Req # 64076
Employment Type Full Time
Shift 1st
Generac Clean Energy is dedicated to delivering revolutionary Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for our residential customers to improve energy reliability and grid independence. Our software and firmware teams enable these systems to provide a seamless battery backup system for our customers.
As an Agile Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for product initiatives, delivering new features on aggressive timelines to support key product launch dates. The candidate will show outstanding technical and organizational skills coordinating many different software and firmware teams, ensuring their success through assessing requirements, identifying risks, managing development schedules, and communicating clearly with project stakeholders.
- Establish and manage programs feature baseline, scheduling, critical path, and technology risk areas for execution.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies across the software, firmware, and hardware organizations.
- Build up customer context and relationships to identify software gaps, risks, and opportunities.
- Identify tactical (exercise operational excellence) and creative ways to overcome obstacles while meeting deadlines despite setbacks.
- Own key relationships with stakeholders to ensure we are on track to deliver the right features when needed.
- Keep engineering team organized, motivated, and focused on our goals, always keeping the customer first.
- Drive initiatives that allow us to be key differentiators in this market segment, competing with other industry leaders.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in an Engineering, Computer Science field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience working in an organizational role such as Product or Program management.
- Experience with Agile development practices, specifically using JIRA and git as tools
- Must be able to understand complex integrated systems and their dependencies.
- Strong organizational skills along with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and shift priorities according to business needs.
- Easily and confidently communicate with executive management.
- Comfortably able to read C code to understand what it does.
- Desired to have experience in program management of embedded software compliant to formal safety certification processes such as UL1998 or similar