New Product Introduction - Engineering Director
About The Position
Arista is seeking a new product leader to work on our leading-edge products. This is a critical role, ensuring that Arista products are managed throughout their lifecycle to meet customer driven requirements, and support revenue, reliability, manufacturability, testability, sustainability and supportability goals. You will work with an experienced internal cross-disciplinary team, including product management, demand planning, product development, supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics. Externally you will help foster a strong network of technology and supply chain partners. We are looking for a hands-on leader, interested in being part of a world-class organization while building a strong functional team. Strong communications, problem solving, and communication skills are essential.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering. MS/MBA is highly desirable
- 10+ years of combined new product introduction, manufacturing, operations, and program management experience with data center or enterprise equipment.
- Direct experience in product development highly desirable
- Direct experience delivering data center and/or enterprise products to market while meeting performance, cost, schedule, and DFx objectives
- Experience interfacing with product management, product development and sales
- Experience working and negotiating with external partners
- Significant working knowledge of hardware and software development processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication. Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences, and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Direct experience working with external customers desirable
Responsibilities
- Accountable for the overall product lifecycle of all Arista products, from concept commit to manufacturing readiness to value engineering to portfolio management.
- Lead a cross-functional team from product development, manufacturing, product management, contract manufacturing partners, ODM/JDM partners, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market.
- Drive effectiveness and efficiency of our lifecycle management process, including all checkpoints
- Facilitate new product releases: performance, cost, quality and delivery objectives
- Assure appropriate risk assessments and mitigation plans are in place
- Lead efforts around capacity planning and capex roll out
- Monitor products to assure they are meeting cost objectives
- Monitor products to assure quality metrics are being met, including production yields and RMAs
- Manage products throughout their lifecycle, including post-production monitoring, continuous improvement, portfolio rationalization, value engineering and end-of-life processes.
- Define and implement product development process improvement initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
