NPI Operations Manager

Who You’ll Work With

Arista is seeking an NPI Operations Manager.  This is a critical role, ensuring that Arista customer driven programs complete milestone deliverables to meet the customer’s needs and prevent delays to their internal development and deployment programs. As an NPI Operations Manager you will work with an experienced internal cross-disciplinary team, contract manufacturers, and strategic partners to drive hardware product development, release to manufacturing, and sustain the product in manufacturing. In this role,  your time will be divided between driving the NPI process and supporting Manufacturing. You will lead the cross-functional team through prototype build and evaluation cycles, phase gate reviews, through release to mass production. Strong leadership, communications, problem solving, and communication skills are essential. 

What You’ll Do

• Accountable for readiness of NPI manufacturing and production ramp.
• Lead a cross-functional team from engineering, Validation, Manufacturing, Product Management, Contract manufacturing partners, ODM/JDM partners, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market.
• Own and facilitate weekly cross-functional NPI team meetings.
• Manage prototype build readiness, progress, and completion with internal stakeholders and NPI and Production contract manufacturer (CM) sites
• Monitor MFG yields and drive resolution of defects during NPI builds
• Create prototype build schedules that capture and interconnect the key functional deliverables as defined by the product development lifecycle and ensure the team stays on track to meet program milestones.  
• Provide MFG readiness status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation plans for weekly hardware program reviews and updates
• Prepare for and facilitate NPI cross-functional phase gate review meetings
• Drive, coordinate, and monitor NPI and sustaining programs including scheduling, planning, product and project cost analysis, early access, & first customer shipment.
• Identify program risks and drive mitigation plans across cross functional teams
• Define and implement product development process improvement initiatives.