Program Manager (Huntsville)

LHH Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Program Manager at our defense manufacturing client in Huntsville, AL. Our Client is a global leader in modular, high performance, open architecture, standards-based rugged embedded computing for the most demanding applications in defense and industry. Their products and solutions are found in high-profile military/aerospace sea, land and air programs, plus commercial and industrial organizations in which rugged reliability is mission critical.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Owns and maintains the product strategy for RF/DSP and FPGA solutions within the overall product system

- Develops long-range roadmaps aligned to industry trends and customer need.

- Conducts competitive analysis across relevant form factors.

- Authors business cases and requirements for new products.

- Leads kickoff process for new NPD launches.

- Oversees performance of the multiproduct portfolio.

- Interfaces with customers, sales, and partners.

- Supports secure customer engagements.

- Provides technical presentations, Marketing, collateral and training.

- Partners with engineering, operations, and leadership.

Education and Experience:

- Bachelors degree in engineering, from an accredited college or university (Masters preferred).

- 7+ years in RF, DSP, FPGA, or embedded defense markets.

- Product management or technical leadership experience preferred.

Qualifications:

- Ability to build and justify multi-year business cases to the Abaco leadership team.

- Experience making system level RF tradeoffs (noise figure, SFDR, intermodulation, dynamic range) and understanding how those tradeoffs propagate from antenna through data conversion and DSP

- Experience in managing relationships with customers and suppliers and interfacing with leadership within the company.

- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts.

- Experience with product concept definition and NPI launches.

- Has translated RF and DSP theory into real hardware or FPGA implementations and understands where practical systems diverge from ideal models.

- Experience with embedded electronics and/or software.

- Familiarity writing requirements with Military Standards.

- Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers.

- Ability to create positive outcomes in an influential leadership position without direct reports.

- Strong oral, written, interpersonal, and customer communication skills.

- Self-starter, inclusive, highly motivated individual.

PLEASE NOTE: Abaco is a Department of Defense (DoD) supplier and as such employees may work with or be exposed to export controlled information and/or information that has been designated as classified information. This information may only be seen or handled by US citizens or qualified permanent residents or those with proper clearances.

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M-F; 8-5 CST

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