Senior Manager, Device Program Management

Senior Manager, Device Program Management

Company Name: PRADCO Inc.

Location:

Birmingham, AL, US, 35242

Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Moultrie ( ) is the leader in game feeders and cellular camera innovation, building products used by hunters, property owners, and others for real‑time remote monitoring.

We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsessing about the details, and going the extra mile to show our users we love them. Moultrie is customer‑driven – hardware, software, marketing, and customer success teams collaborate to deliver a quality user experience.

We are guided by the following principles: Customer Obsession.;
Excellence is the Standard.;
Bias for Action.;
Act Boldly.;
Deliver Results.;
Hire and Develop the Best.;
Be Curious and Learn.;
Win as a Team

We're looking for a technically grounded Senior Manager, Program Management - Device to lead end-to-end program execution for consumer devices — spanning mobile imaging systems, IoT, and smart home products. You'll build and lead a team of Program Managers and own overall program health across Hardware, Electrical, Firmware, Image Quality, and Reliability work streams.

This role serves as the primary bridge between executive leadership and cross-functional engineering teams, driving alignment on scope, schedule, risk, and milestone readiness from concept through mass production.

Lead & Develop a High-Performing PM Team

• Directly manage Program Managers covering hardware, electrical, firmware, image quality, and reliability disciplines
• Set clear goals, coach for growth, conduct performance reviews, and develop PM career paths
• Build team capability through process improvements, playbooks, and structured lessons‑learned integration

Drive Program Execution

• Own the master program schedule integrating all functional work streams across HW, EE, FW, IQ, and Reliability
• Establish and enforce milestone gates with clear entry/exit criteria across all hardware build phases (EVT, DVT, PVT, MP)
• Resolve cross-functional dependencies, resource conflicts, and schedule tradeoffs with speed and clarity
• Lead executive-level program reviews presenting status, risks, and mitigation strategies

Product Management Partnership

• Engage during early‑phase development to co‑develop program schedules, cost frameworks, and resource plans grounded in engineering reality
• Lead governance of feature lock milestones (Feature Concept Lock, Feature Definition Lock, Feature Freeze) to align scope before development begins
• Partner with Product Management to evaluate feature trade‑offs balancing schedule, cost, and technical risk

App & Cloud Software Coordination

• Define cross‑functional interdependencies and integration milestones across device, app, and cloud teams
• Ensure firmware milestones (FC/PC/SC) are mapped against app and cloud software readiness to prevent integration bottlenecks
• Drive regular cross‑team integration syncs and elevate unresolved dependency conflicts with clear impact assessments

Hardware, Mechanical & Electrical Development

• Track mechanical milestones through design freeze, tooling kick‑off, and tool pull cycles; monitor DFM reviews, GD&T compliance, and CMM validation
• Govern EE development milestones from schematic review through PCB/PCBA fabrication and maintain ECO/ECN discipline
• Coordinate prototype planning, part procurement, and factory readiness with Device and Hardware PMs

Firmware, Image Quality & Communications

• Partner with the Firmware PM to govern FC, PC, and SC milestones tightly integrated with hardware build schedules
• Oversee IQ milestones across camera and imaging systems through IQ alpha/beta/gold sign‑off
• Govern cellular (FCC, PTCRB, carrier acceptance), Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi, and other LAN integration milestones and certifications

Reliability & Qualification

• Govern reliability test planning covering environmental stress, mechanical durability, MTBF validation, and regulatory certification (FCC, CE, UL, RoHS)
• Track all reliability findings to closure with clear ownership and committed ETAs

Experience

• 10+ years in program management within consumer electronics; direct experience shipping smartphones,…