ThinkPad Offering Team Project Manager

Position Overview:

• The ThinkPad Offering Team Project Manager is responsible for leading the cross-functional development and delivery of ThinkPad products throughout the entire product lifecycle. This role combines the technical aspects of product development with the business responsibilities of managing a product program, requiring strong leadership, project management, and decision-making skills. The role is accountable for delivering products on schedule, within project expense and product cost targets, while meeting customer expectations and business objectives. The successful candidate will support multiple product generations simultaneously, including products currently in market, next-generation products in development, and future products in early planning. Due to collaboration with global teams, occasional early morning and evening meetings may be required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional Offering Core Teams through product planning, definition, development, qualification, launch, and post-launch support.
• Translate customer needs, market requirements, technology capabilities, and business objectives into optimized product definitions.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, master schedules, resource plans, budgets, and project commitments.
• Coordinate activities across hardware engineering, software engineering, marketing, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, services, and external partners.
• Manage project scope, schedule, cost, project expense, product quality, and overall execution.
• Identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and manage issues, changes, and dependencies throughout the product lifecycle.
• Lead product scope discussions, investment reviews, development checkpoints, and executive status updates.
• Make informed trade-off decisions involving product features, schedule, cost, quality, and resource allocation.
• Monitor project performance using key metrics and communicate progress to executive leadership.
• Drive product launch readiness, including manufacturing transition, supply readiness, quality execution, and production ramp.
• Support continuous improvement efforts by monitoring product performance after launch and responding to changing business and market conditions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Two or more years of project management or product development experience.
• Experience supporting hardware and/or software product development.