Summary

Celestica is looking for a Senior Hardware Technical Program Manager to lead some of our most complex and visible hardware programs. You will operate across strategy and execution setting program direction, aligning global organizations, managing business performance, and creating the governance and clarity required to deliver accelerated-compute and AI-enabled systems for demanding customers.

This is an onsite position is our San Jose, CA office.  4x a week in office is required.  Friday is typically our work from home day.

Detailed Description

What you’ll do

• Set program direction: Own high-visibility, high-complexity hardware programs or portfolios spanning multiple products, sites, customers, and technical or organizational workstreams.
• Lead at executive altitude: Translate business strategy and customer commitments into an executable program strategy, governance model, investment plan, and measurable outcomes.
• Orchestrate the system: Direct global core teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, manufacturing, and customer organizations; align interdependent projects to one integrated outcome.
• Drive business performance: Own program objectives across cost, quality, schedule, features, fulfillment/continuity of supply, solution delivery, and customer-specific needs; forecast actuals against plan and quote.
• Lead through ambiguity: Surface systemic risks, frame trade-offs, make recommendations, and drive corrective action on issues that cross organizational or functional boundaries.
• Shape the organization: Lead company-wide, cross-functional, or complex process and business-strategy initiatives that improve how hardware programs are planned and delivered.
• Represent Celestica: Present program status, decisions, risks, financial impacts, and recovery plans to business leaders and customers; communicate with clarity and credibility.
• Grow capability: Coach program core-team members, identify development opportunities, and serve as a recognized go-to expert across multiple program-management disciplines.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

What you bring

• Enterprise-scale leadership: A track record of delivering complex, multi-stream hardware or systems programs with significant customer, technology, organizational, or financial impact.
• Technical and business judgment: Strong working knowledge of accelerated compute, AI, server systems, or related technologies, paired with the ability to connect technical choices to business outcomes.
• Strategic program management: Expertise in program architecture, governance, integrated planning, resource and capacity alignment, financial management, risk/issue leadership, and change control.
• Executive influence: Confidence presenting to and influencing segment/LOB leaders, senior stakeholders, and customers; able to drive decisions in situations without clear authority.
• Organizational leadership: Experience leading global teams, coordinating across sites, and building alignment across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, and customer organizations.
• Thought leadership: Recognized expertise in three or more program-management capabilities, with a history of improving processes and developing other leaders.

Why this role matters

Your leadership will extend beyond a single schedule. You will shape how Celestica plans, governs, and delivers complex hardware programs strengthening customer confidence, improving business outcomes, and raising the capability of the broader program-management community.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. 
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Salary

The stated range includes Base Salary and target Short-Term Incentive (STI) compensation only. A comprehensive benefits package is offered in addition to this range.

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

$141,000-221,000

The range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including but not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Typical Experience

• Typically 14+ years of relevant experience in technical program management, hardware engineering, systems engineering, operations, or a related field.
• Industry recognition, deep expertise in complex hardware delivery, and experience leading strategic or enterprise-wide initiatives are strong differentiators.

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

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