Hardware Product Development Project Manager

  • Full-time
  • Department: Product and Hardware Engineering

Company Description

About

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Overview

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At Cricut®, we believe that we’re all born makers. When we built our first cutting machine, we saw the potential for a simple yet powerful tool to completely transform the way people craft, design, and DIY. Since then, we continue to innovate with new machines, platforms, materials, and tools, but that’s just what we do. Who we are is a bustling worldwide community, a means for connection, and an outlet for unbridled creativity. Join us as we place the power of handmade into the hands of ALL.

Life

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Our company is made up of A+ human beings. We ask tough questions, entertain ideas outside of our own, and work together to make something bigger than ourselves. With Cricut® growing in China, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, as well as Europe and South America, we’re on an unstoppable roll, satisfying that innate creative itch around the world. We train, develop, and celebrate great work with hallway high fives and promotions within. We also throw the world’s best Halloween party.

Enjoy incredible perks.

We take care of our team. From outstanding medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits, to pet insurance, 401K match, life insurance, incentive programs, paid time off, on-site massages, phenomenal work-life balance, and employee discounts, we offer the best benefits package in the DIY consumer electronics industry. Period.

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Job Description

As a Hardware Project Manager at Cricut you will interface with all functions necessary to bring highly reliable, best in class, consumer products to market.  The primary focus of this position is to plan, facilitate and integrate the development of products within the hardware engineering team while coordinating with other functional teams to deliver an optimal user experience.  You will be responsible for managing and communicating progress against the established cost, schedule and product experience goals to management and stakeholders.  This position is more than tracking schedules and maintaining issue lists. You will be an integral part of the development team, helping the team to select system architecture, work through issues and solve problems.  This will require taking a systems integration approach to product development, ensuring that all parts are thoroughly integrated, tested and proven to meet the product requirements.

 

To be successful you will be a high performer with a rare and specific skill set who will thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment. Your ability to think critically, lead through intellect, deliver quickly, and to partner across a wide variety of functions at Cricut to drive change in a complex setting will be essential to the rollout of our offerings to the market.

Qualifications

  • The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering strongly preferred.  They will have a working knowledge of software/firmware and some programming background.  They will also be familiar with electronics with the ability to read and understand electrical schematics and wiring diagrams.
  • 5+ years in project management related to product development
  • Strong communication skills, team work and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to utilize various technologies and tools to effectively manage projects and provide clear and concise communications to teams and stakeholders
  • Adept at Microsoft Project, MS Excel.  Proficiency in Minitab highly desirable
  • The ability to understand and apply statistical process control methods is highly desirable including Cpk’s, T-Tests, X-Bar/R charts, DOE’s, etc.

Responsibilities 

  • Manage complex electro-mechanical product development projects
  • Lead the team through system architecture decisions
  • Work as the technical and programmatic focal point and facilitator for development activities.
  • Prepares and manages project budgets and schedules. 
  • Highlights issues well in advance and leads efforts to develop and implement alternative actions to overcome the issues and maintain the schedule.
  • Prepares and maintains Issues/Action Item database. 
  • Leads the team in working through complex issues
  • Maintains a system’s view of the project to identify and manage risks
  • Ensure that management and stakeholders are notified of any potential schedule impacts
  • Facilitate regular status meetings with both domestic and international teams.
  • Ensure seamless communication with other functional areas (SW, Product Mgmt, etc.)
  • Ensure that all projects are completed in a timely manner
  • Coordinate testing activities with engineers and the quality department
  • Ensure product performance meets engineering and product specifications
  • Coordinate and manage supplier and contract manufacturing activities to deliver on project objectives.  Includes regular travel to Asia as needed (at least 4x/yr)

Additional Information

What to Do Next: Please attach your resume including links to your portfolio where applicable. If you want to show your super powers in other ways – include that information too. You can be sure that Cricut® is an employer who values individuality, equality and diversity, so tell us what you’re all about. If you are a Maker or a DIY enthusiast, whether you think you are a good one or not, we would love to hear about it when you send us your information!

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