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Sonos Technical Program Manager in Shenzhen, China
At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.
Sonos is on a journey to be the most sought after audio brand in the world. Our brand experience is changing the way people listen to music, and our job is to bring this experience to every modern music lover around the Globe.
High Level Overview:
We are looking for a seasoned technical manufacturing process leader who can guide a team through the development of mechanical manufacturing processes such as painting, CNC, molding, surface treatment, liquid-adhesive dispensing, and sub-assembly. This is a high visibility leadership function at Sonos that will play an instrumental role in delivering the mechanical parts and sub-assemblies with the best technical solution for quality, schedule and cost.
It is expected that the TPM will be a:
• Technical Lead – Lead the technical discussion for mechanical manufacturing processes while guiding the team towards solutions.
• Coordinator – Coordinate cross-functional teams as one team through planning, solutions, and decision making.
• Program Manager– Manage the mechanical manufacturing process development per project schedule and budget.
• Decision Maker – Align the team and make leadership decisions as necessary.
Key Responsibilities:
• For challenging / unique feature requests, coordinate the R&D exploration of which processes to evaluate, how they will be evaluated, additional refinement activity, and clearly communicate the results and next steps to the cross functional team
• Report project status to the project operations leadership, specifically to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager and Engineering Program Manager
• Align a cross-functional team on achieving the industrial design intent, product design purpose, and product design intent through each prototype build/trial run to mass production. This cross-functional team includes Industrial Design, Product Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Color Materials & Finishes, Global Supply Manager, Supply Base Engineering, and Supplier Quality Manager.
• Coordinate the local factory and supplier teams to deliver the mechanical parts for each build / investigation.
• Set the expectations for Sonos specifications, quality requirements, and schedule to the suppliers and deliver qualified parts per plan.
The Ideal Candidate:
• BS degree or above in Engineering and Management, with 3+ years related work experience.
• More than 2 years’ experience as a technical lead or program manager in an international company.
• Strong communication skills in the global work environment.
• Deep understanding and experience with high volume mechanical product manufacturing
methodology and implementation.
• Diverse experience managing suppliers with different process capabilities.
• Proficient with the use of DFM, GD&T, SPC, DOE and other Six Sigma techniques.
• Fluency in Mandarin and English in verbal and written.
Extra Points:
• Hands-on experience developing other secondary processes such as sub-assembly, painting, gluing.
• Additional experience with product design, automation, and quality management is a plus.
• Engineering program management background
• Six Sigma certification.
Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.
Sonos is a sound experience company. We connect millions of listeners all around the world to the content they want, where and how they want it. Since inventing multiroom wireless audio in 2005, we have continuously innovated the listening experience, designing hardware and software that celebrates sound, empowers our customers, and brings the home to life. Our team is made up of passionate players united by a culture of respect, transparency, collaboration, and ownership who want to inspire the world to listen better.
Having been distributed from the start, we’ve long since been accustomed to having close teammates in entirely different locations and time zones. We ground ourselves in these four principles while working as distributed teams:
Role Location: Some roles require an office while others may be done remotely. Leaders make this decision based on business rationale, role requirements and team needs.
Travel: Some work is better done in person. Teams should meet together in person at critical moments to move work forward.
Meeting Norms: We use our time to drive OKRs and run the business. We normalize asynchronous collaboration and focused work. We give feedback and help each other improve when norms are not followed.
Flexibility: Flexibility done well fuels impact, not hinders it. Teams flex to support one another and employees flex to deliver for the team or business. We flex both ways to drive impact.
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