Program Manager

Avanciers is seeking a highly skilledQuick Turn Program Managerfor an exciting opportunity with one of our Fortune 500 clients, based inSanta Clara, CA.Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.Role: Quick Turn Program Manager Location: Santa Clara, CA (Onsite) Employment Type: Full-Time Key responsibilities Intake & triage: qualify requests (business need, urgency, constraints), define scope/options, and align on priority. Rapid planning: build tight execution plans (milestones, owners, critical path), set success criteria, and establish change control. Cross-functional execution: coordinate engineering, test/validation, manufacturing/ops, supply chain, labs, and support to meet dates. Risk/issue management: run daily/near-daily war rooms, remove blockers, drive fast escalation, track actions to closure. Build/release readiness: ensure required reviews, validation, and sign-offs happen without unnecessary delay; manage cut-lines. Communication: provide crisp status (what changed, impact, next steps), executive summaries, and stakeholder alignment. Post-mortems & improvements: capture lessons learned, improve quick-turn playbooks, templates, and operational cadence. Typical qualifications 5+ years (varies by level) in program/project management for hardware, software, or systems. Demonstrated success delivering time-critical programs under ambiguity. Strong skills in scheduling, dependency management, and prioritization (critical path, tradeoffs). Comfortable leading incident-style execution (war room cadence, escalations, action tracking). Familiarity with common tools (e.g., Jira/ADO, Confluence, Smartsheet/MS Project) and basic metrics/reporting. xywuqvp Excellent stakeholder management; ability to drive decisions with incomplete data.