Senior Program Manager, MCU

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Semiconductor Program Manager to lead new microcontroller (MCU) chip development programs for automotive, industrial, server, and data center applications. This role drives execution from early product definition through mass production, aligning cross-functional teams, schedules, risks, and decisions to bring complex semiconductor products to market.

Ideal Candidate

A semiconductor program leader who turns product goals into executable plans, drives global team alignment, and brings MCU products from concept to market.

Technical Domain and Target Products
•    MCU-based semiconductor products for automotive, industrial, server, and data center applications, developed from early product definition through engineering, validation, production readiness, and mass production launch.
•    Programs involving silicon development, firmware, software enablement, validation, product marketing, operations, and customer or application requirements.

Key Responsibilities
•    Drive MCU program execution across product definition, engineering development, validation, production readiness, and mass production launch.
•    Build and maintain integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and risk mitigation plans to keep programs on track.
•    Serve as the central program leader across silicon, firmware, software, validation, marketing, operations, and business teams across regions.
•    Provide timely stakeholder updates covering schedule status, risks, financial assumptions, decisions needed, and recovery actions.
•    Lead structured development reviews and decision checkpoints to maintain execution discipline and cross-functional alignment.
 

Qualifications

•    Experience managing complex semiconductor, MCU, or embedded systems development programs across hardware, firmware, software, validation, product, and operations teams.
•    Ability to manage schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, stakeholder communication, and global cross-functional execution.
•    Strong communicator with the planning, organization, and problem-solving skills needed to lead complex technical programs.
•    Ability to develop project financial information, including development cost, cost of goods sold, return on investment, and related business case inputs for semiconductor programs.
•    Self-driven and comfortable leading technical programs with shifting priorities, complex dependencies, and fast-paced execution demands.
•    Proficiency in program scheduling, milestone tracking, risk management, executive communication, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Jira.
•    Business level English AND Japanese language ability.

Additional Information

ルネサスは、「To Make Our Lives Easier（人々の暮らしをより豊かで快適にする）」というPurposeのもと、組込み半導体ソリューションを提供するグローバル企業です。世界30か国以上で活躍する21,000人を超えるエンジニアや課題解決のプロフェッショナルとともに、自動車、産業、インフラ、IoT分野における世界最先端のテクノロジー開発に携わり、より安全で、健康的で、環境にやさしく、スマートな未来の実現に貢献しています。 

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