Project Manager

At UEI you will be part of a world class team that is working to innovate and revolutionize the meaning of ‘wireless control’. Whether it’s via chips, software licenses or turnkey products, we are continuing to reinvent how consumers interact with devices and services in their home.

Each day we make the connected home smarter, easier to connect and use, and more sustainable. We delight our Fortune 100 customers such as Comcast, Apple, Samsung, Google, Vivint and Daikin with ground breaking wireless technology solutions such as advanced, voice-enabled remote controls, cloud control solutions, extreme low power Bluetooth silicon with energy harvesting capabilities, smart thermostats and sensors and many other IoT solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects concurrently at various stages of development, ensuring they meet strategic goals and project objectives.
• Develop an understanding of the universal remote control, hospitality, security, and home automation markets to effectively support customer and project requirements.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, dependencies, budgets, resource allocation plans, risk and mitigation plans for each assigned project in Project Portfolio Management software (KeyedIn).
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive decisions, resolve issues, and maintain alignment among engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and customers.
• Monitor and document each assigned project’s progress and track key performance indicators (KPIs) in KeyedIn.
• Prepare and present executive-level project status, key risks, mitigation plans, and recovery plans to leadership and customers.
• Motivate project teams to meet or exceed project objectives.
• Drive project execution through proactive management of schedules, critical paths, risks, dependencies, and action items.
• Manage the development of turnkey products from concept through mass production based on customer requirements.
• Manage alternate part qualifications, factory transfers, engineering change requests.
• Collaborate effectively with global teams across North America, Europe, and Asia, with flexibility to support meetings across multiple time zones.
• Work with Project Managers in Asia, Mexico to coordinate manufacturing deliverables.
• Work with functional managers to ensure resource allocation to provide timely delivery of multiple concurrent development projects.
• Manage, maintain and service key OEM accounts and relationships.
• Process and Development
• Identify and implement project and systematic improvements for increased execution efficiency.
• Align processes with the right software systems and confirm that processes are secured into systems, workflows, etc.

Qualifications / skills

• 10+ years of overall industry experience with minimum 5+ years of Project Management Experience.
• Experience managing electronics or embedded hardware products.
• Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Experience working with OEM/ODM or manufacturing environments.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English.
• Experience leading global cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Successful execution of at least three projects in the past is preferred.
• Knowledge and experience managing projects with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies is required.

Education, Licenses & Certification

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s (4-Year) degree in Electrical, Electronics or Software Engineering is required.
• A Project Management Professional (PMP) or PgMP certification from PMI is highly desirable, not required.

Universal Electronics Inc. (NASDAQ: UEIC) is the worldwide leader in universal control and sensing technologies for the smart home. Its broad portfolio of patents includes QuickSet® software that utilizes the world’s most complete knowledge graph to detect and interact with thousands of entertainment and smart home devices. The company designs, develops, and manufactures innovative products that are used by the world’s leading brands in the audio, video, subscription broadcasting, connected home, home energy management, and mobile device markets. UEI’s many first-to-market innovations have helped transform the home entertainment control, home security, and home energy management and sensing industries.

Universal Electronics Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are proud of our diverse workforce and we believe having diverse teams that everyone brings their whole self to work everyday is key to all of our success. We welcome all people of different experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and abilities.