Manager, Products Introduction

About The Role

The Manager, New Products Introduction (NPI) leads the Texas NPI team in delivering technical maturity and operational readiness to launch stable, high-quality products at ZT's Texas manufacturing facility. As ZT expands its manufacturing footprint, this role is responsible for replicating the operational structure and execution rigor of our established NPI organization within the Texas plant—overseeing the successful planning, execution, and optimization of parallel product launches across ZT's portfolio of hyperscale server, storage, and AI GPU compute solutions.

Reporting into NPI leadership, you will build, mentor, and direct the Texas NPI engineering and technical program management team while serving as the key leadership interface between the TX NPI team and our global NPI organization. In this role, you will lead and collaborate in efforts to establish a unified, global NPI roadmap that comprehensively plans and integrates new product introductions across ZT's global campus network.

You will continuously adapt, improve, and contribute to global NPI standards, frameworks, and management systems—ensuring local factory launch plans reflect operational excellence, reduced time-to-market, and uncompromised quality. As an engineering manager, you will serve as a key thought partner and facilitator across plant operations, engineering, customer management, and executive leadership. You will translate complex business and launch challenges into structured projects, establish analytical work streams, and invest in the long-term professional development of the Texas NPI team.

Translate business problems into structured projects that you will lead in end-to-end delivery against key objectives, from hypothesis development to final deliverables.

Act as a thought partner and subject matter expert to refine ideas, generate hypotheses, and analyze data to formulate solutions.

Apply engineering and operational expertise to contribute effectively to team endeavors.

Lead analytical work streams—develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct analyses and solve critical business issues with minimal oversight from functional leaders.

Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability to challenge the status quo and manage key senior stakeholders across plant management, customer operations, and global engineering.

Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performance team of NPI technical program managers and engineers in Texas to manage complex projects, technical initiatives, and identify innovative solutions.

Invest in the professional development of the team including coaching, performance reviews, and long-term career guidance.

Lead the Texas NPI team in establishing a local operational structure parallel to the NJ NPI model, driving local technical maturity, pre-production build execution, and factory readiness for mass production.

Serve as the key technical and managerial interface between the Texas NPI team and our global NPI organization, driving cross-site alignment, bi-directional communication, and shared operational accountability.

Lead and collaborate on efforts to establish a unified, global NPI roadmap that comprehensively plans, schedules, and balances NPI programs across ZT's global manufacturing footprint.

Adapt, improve, and contribute to our global NPI standards, management systems, and best practices, embedding proven launch frameworks into the Texas facility while surfacing recommendations to optimize tools, CRE cycles, and workflows.

Consistently challenge and reduce time-to-market (TTM) lead times by ensuring appropriate balanced risks are built into time plans, while identifying waste, line bottlenecks, and…