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Salary: USD 122,000 - 166,000 / annual
Arista Networks is seeking a Product Operations Manager to own the complete lifecycle of product families from program commitment through manufacturing readiness, value engineering, and portfolio management. This is a hands-on leadership role managing cross-functional teams spanning product development, manufacturing, product management, supply chain, logistics, and external partners including ODMs and contract manufacturers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Accountable for overall product lifecycle management, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and business objectives around revenue, reliability, manufacturability, testability, sustainability, and supportability
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver products to market on schedule and within cost targets
- Coordinate with technology and manufacturing partners on prototype delivery and material readiness
- Drive manufacturability, testability, reliability, sustainability, and supportability initiatives
- Ensure new product release objectives are met across performance, cost, quality, and lead time
- Validate product readiness at all checkpoints and identify/mitigate program risks
- Partner with NPI engineers on capacity planning and capex deployment
- Conduct post-project assessments after each release to drive continuous improvement
- Monitor quality metrics including production yields and RMAs
- Track cost performance and manage products through post-production, continuous improvement, portfolio rationalization, value engineering, and end-of-life phases
- Define and implement product improvement initiatives in partnership with engineering
You will work with an experienced internal cross-disciplinary team and foster strong relationships with external technology and supply chain partners. Strong communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills are essential.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering (required)
- 3+ years of direct engineering experience in fabrication and manufacturing of electronic products (required)
- MS/MBA and PMP certification (highly desirable)
- Combined new product introduction, operations, and program management experience (highly desirable)
- Direct experience in engineering product development, product management, and working with external partners (desirable)
- Experience negotiating with external partners and engaging with sales/customers (desirable)
- Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences
- Local candidates preferred
