Senior Staff, Program Manager

Responsibilities

• New Product Introduction (NPI) Program Execution (30%)
• Build and maintain integrated program schedules across Engineering, Design, Operations, and Quality; proactively identify critical path risks and drive mitigation actions.
• Lead NPI readiness reviews and gate reviews with cross-functional and executive stakeholders, ensuring clear go/no-go criteria and decision ownership.
• Coordinate resource planning across multi-site engineering teams to meet program commitments under competing priorities.
• Track and report program health metrics to senior leadership, with structured status communication and escalation protocols.
• Own the NPI process framework end-to-end, including process documentation, stage gate definitions, and cross-functional sign-off requirements; serve as the accountability anchor ensuring alignment between Engineering execution and QA standards at every phase of the product lifecycle.
• Production Issue Resolution & CAR Support (20%)
• Serve as program lead for high-severity production issues, coordinating rapid cross-functional response across Test & Product Engineering, Design, Quality, and Operations.
• Drive Corrective Action Report (CAR) processes from initiation through closure, ensuring root cause identification is technically sound and preventive actions are implemented and verified.
• Maintain accountability for issue resolution timelines; escalate blockers and resource constraints early to minimize customer and yield impact.
• Establish and maintain structured issue tracking and post-mortem reporting practices across the Back End Engineering organization.
• Interface with foundry and OSAT partners on production excursions and process-related escapes.
• Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management (20%)
• Act as a primary interface between Back End Engineering and business unit product management, design engineering, operations, and quality assurance teams.
• Facilitate alignment across organizational boundaries on scope, schedule, and technical trade-offs - translating engineering complexity into business-relevant decisions.
• Build strong working relationships across all global locations; adapt communication style effectively across cultural and functional contexts.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level program updates, including C-suite quarterly business reviews; communicate risk, status, and decisions with clarity and confidence.
• Champion a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement within and across the teams you support.
• Foundry & OSAT Management (30%)
• Work through Test & Product Engineering, Design Engineering, and Quality leads to execute deliverables across both port and NPI programs; maintain clear ownership boundaries and escalation paths across the technical team.
• Build and maintain integrated schedules with clear milestones, resource dependencies, and go/no-go criteria across all active foundry and OSAT programs; proactively surface risks to engineering and business unit leadership.
• Align NPI engineering tester r

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Additional Information

Location: Burlington, Canada Our Team: Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and industrial equipment. As our future market opportunities have increased in recent years, we have continued to invest in disruptive analog platforms and have created innovative new solutions for a wide range of leading-edge products. Semtech's Global Back End Engineering team is a world-class organization of innovative engineers who enable the success of our entire semiconductor portfolio through cutting-edge test solutions and methodologies. We are the technical backbone that ensures every Semtech product meets the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance. Our team spans multiple sites globally and serves as the center of excellence for back end innovation, working closely with all business units to deliver breakthrough products. Job Summary: We are looking for a Sr. Staff Program Manager to join the Global Back End Engineering team in Burlington, Ontario. In this high-impact role, you will be the connective tissue between Engineering, Product, Operations, Quality, and our foundry and test house partners - ensuring that new products launch on schedule, that production issues are resolved with urgency and rigor, and that corrective actions drive lasting improvements across the portfolio. This is a technically grounded program management role in a fast-paced semiconductor environment. You will be expected to understand the engineering context, not just the schedule, and to lead with credibility across multi-functional and multi-site teams.

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