Project Manager, Hardware Development

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 while coordinating with other functional teams to deliver an optimal user experience. You will be responsible for managing and communicating progress against the established cost, schedule and product experience goals to management and stakeholders. This position is more than tracking schedules and maintaining issue lists. You will be an integral part of the development team, helping the team to select system architecture, work through issues and solve problems. This will require taking a systems integration approach to product development, ensuring that all parts are thoroughly integrated, tested and proven to meet the product requirements.To be successful you will be a high performer with a rare and specific skill set who will thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment. Your ability to think critically, lead through intellect, deliver quickly, and to partner across a wide variety of functions at Cricut to drive change in a complex setting will be essential to the rollout of our offerings to the market.tl;dr: You are responsible for organizing all the engineering resources to deliver the developed product. Period. Within the cost-targets, meeting all our requirements, etc. We are seeking someone who relishes this kind of role and really is hungry to do this.ResponsibilitiesManage complex electro-mechanical product development projectsSupport the team and the system architect through system architecture decisionsWork as the technical and programmatic focal point and facilitator for development activities.Prepares and manages real-time management of the project schedule as well.Collaborate with the finance team on project-based cost-accounting.Highlights issues well in advance and leads efforts to develop and implement alternative actions to overcome the issues and maintain the schedule.Prepares and maintains Issues/Action Item database. Leads the team in working through complex issuesMaintains a system’s view of the project to identify and manage risksEnsure that management and stakeholders are notified of any potential schedule impactsFacilitate regular status meetings with both domestic and international teams.Ensure seamless communication with other functional areas (SW, Product Mgmt, etc.)Collaborate with other functional leaders on cross-platform deliverables actively ensuring different workstreams are aligned.Ensure that all projects are completed in a timely mannerCoordinate testing activities with engineers and the quality departmentEnsure product performance meets engineering and product specificationsCoordinate and manage supplier and contract manufacturing activities to deliver on project objectives. Includes regular travel to Asia as needed (at least 4x/yr)Qualifications