Overview
Keysight is a mission-critical design enablement partner for organizations solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. With deep engineering expertise and leading design, emulation, and test solutions, our ~16,800 employees help customers in over 100 countries accelerate innovation across communications, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence markets. Learn more about what we do.
At Keysight, people come together to explore new ideas, challenge what's possible, and advance the technologies defining the future. Here, you'll find opportunities to do your best work, take your career further, and thrive in an award-winning culture. Learn more about our benefits.
Responsibilities
The Wireless IST team is seeking a proactive Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead complex, cross-functional hardware programs from concept through customer delivery in a fast-moving environment with high customer expectations. You will own the end-to-end Keysight program for a leading global technology customer whose priorities can evolve quickly and who expects speed, adaptability, and clear communication from its partners.
You will lead through engineering managers and program managers across functions and work directly with the customer to drive schedules, risks, communication, and alignment across R&D, IST, manufacturing, supply chain, support, and customer teams. You will deliver integrated systems that meet stringent performance and qualification requirements, building structure where processes, templates, or governance are still being developed without slowing execution.
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership and Execution
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution across R&D, IST, manufacturing, supply chain, support, and customer teams.
- Serve as the primary program interface to the customer TPM, internal leadership, and engineering organizations.
- Align cross-functional leaders on requirements, priorities, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and milestones, and drive accountability for customer commitments.
- Listen closely across teams and the customer, clarify implied concerns, connect information to surface risks and dependencies early, and track past decisions and commitments to maintain alignment.
Scheduling Risk and Documentation
- Maintain the integrated master schedule, critical path, dependencies, and resource plan.
- Maintain a risk register with clear owners, mitigation plans, and closure timelines.
- Keep program documentation, including statement of work (SOW) deliverables, plans, reports, action logs, and decision records, current and accessible.
- Coordinate development, integration, validation, manufacturing readiness, and customer deployment.
Reporting and Communication
- Deliver weekly internal status updates covering progress, risks, issues, decisions, and next steps.
- Provide monthly program reports for leadership and the customer covering milestones, critical path status, forecasted dates, accomplishments, and risks with mitigation plans.
- Develop executive-ready dashboards and presentations, and communicate issues with root causes, impacts, and recovery plans.
Customer Engagement
- Partner closely with customer TPMs to clarify requirements, review progress, and address escalations.
- Facilitate program reviews, milestone checkpoints, demonstrations, and acceptance activities.
- Build trust through proactive communication and expectation management so commitments are realistic, documented, aligned with internal schedules, and consistently met.
Process and Governance
- Establish lightweight program governance for milestone reviews, risk management, escalation, and change control, adding structure where it helps teams move faster or avoid surprises.
- Drive continuous improvement of processes, tools, and reporting, and support portfolio planning and cross-program coordination.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 5–8+ years of experience in technical program management or engineering leadership.
- Demonstrated success leading complex hardware, software, or integrated system programs.
- Proven success in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, ideally supporting a demanding enterprise or hyperscale customer, including building processes from the ground up.
- Exceptional listening, synthesis, and recall skills, with the ability to interpret explicit and implied concerns, draw sound conclusions, and accurately track decisions and commitments.
- Excellent organizational, problem-solving, risk management, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong understanding of product development lifecycles, system integration, validation, and manufacturing readiness, with experience across R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and aggressive schedules.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, or similar tools.
- PMP certification or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications
- Customer-facing leadership experience, including executive-level communication, reporting, and escalation management.
- Experience in high-tech industries such as wireless, satellite, networking, or test and measurement.
Success Measures
- On-time delivery of customer milestones, commitments, and deliverables.
- Clear, timely documentation and reporting.
- Effective management of risks, issues, scope changes, and resource constraints.
- Strong cross-functional alignment and customer satisfaction.
- Predictable execution, with risks surfaced early and commitments kept accurate.
Compensation and Employment Information
Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed above.
Note: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region
US Employees may be eligible for the following benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision
- Health Savings Account
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life, Accident, Disability insurance
- Business Travel Accident and Business Travel Health
- 401(k) Plan
- Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays
- Paid Family Leave
- Discounts, Perks
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Adoption Assistance
- ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
Careers Privacy Statement
Keysight is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Santa Rosa, CA Pay Range: MIN $149,850.00 - MAX $249,750.00
This position requires access to certain goods, software, technology, or technical data subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these laws and regulations, U.S. persons (which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees) working for Keysight can access export-controlled items without authorization from the U.S. government. For any individual who is not a U.S. person, Keysight may need authorization from the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Commerce, or other appropriate federal agency before the individual can access export-controlled items. Employment in this position for non-U.S. persons is contingent on Keysight’s ability to obtain any required government authorizations.
Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed above.
Note: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region
US Employees may be eligible for the following benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision
- Health Savings Account
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life, Accident, Disability insurance
- Business Travel Accident and Business Travel Health
- 401(k) Plan
- Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays
- Paid Family Leave
- Discounts, Perks
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Adoption Assistance
- ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
Careers Privacy StatementKeysight is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
