Program Director - Technical Program Management

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The Company Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health. We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us. Meet the team : A successful Program Director of Technical Program Manage ment will need to be regarded by their peers and management as a motivating and engaging leader for team members from engineering and non-engineering functional backgrounds regardless of the reporting relationships, be a very strong communicator, and have a track record of making strategic decisions and pushing their teams to answer tough questions with and without consensus . The Program Di rector will need to have proven experience driving programmatic and technical data-driven decisions on complex programs with hardware , firmware, and systems integration elements , and solid domain expertise that can be applied directly to or be transferrable to the Continuous Biosensing Monitoring space. Additionally, an effective Program Director will possess the acumen needed to exercise good judgement in the best interest of the business and resolve disconnects between competing priorities by balancing multiple stakeholder needs and desires . Where you come in : You will lead a Core Team in developing and design transferring a major new hardware platform its initial development program and its future development projects after launch . You will lead product development activities that are complex and multi-disciplinary activities involving mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electrochemistry, sensor development, firmware engineering, algorithm development, and their integration together and with software (mobile application, web-based applications, cloud data). You and your product development team will deliver next generation biosensing platforms through feasibility, development, integration, verification, validation, commercial readiness, and work with Product Core Teams on ensuring successful product launches. You will define the program scope, gain cross-functional alignment, and lead activities across Commercial, Operations, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Clinical, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, and R&D teams delivering business-critical programs . You will establish the program vision, direction, and structure to the cross-functional and cross-disciplinary core teams. This includes controlling scope, aligning product roadmaps, and driving their cross functional delivery. You will regularly communicate strategy, recommendations, external platform impacts, and program updates to functional and executive leadership, driving management decisions when needed. You are responsible for creating and maintaining a culture of accountability and collaboration within your Core Team s by ensuring mutual accountability, removing organizational barriers to success , ensuring and facilitating excellent communication, and resolving conflict promptly. You will develop and mentor core team members and serve as an advisor regarding planning, milestones, tasking, risk burn-down, and conflict resolution. You will aid in evaluating and providing candid feedback directly to these core team members and their managers, including for their mid-year and annual performance reviews. You may manage one or more technical program managers ensuring functional excellence within our team. What makes you successful: Demonstrated successful leadership of complex multi-year flagship programs that deliver new technologies from feasibility, through development, V&V, design transfer, regulatory filings and product launches , with strong technical leadership, cross-functional leadership, and financial accountability. Technical expertise across at least one of the following engineering disciplines: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electrochemistry, bio-sensing, firmwa