Product Engineer

General Information

Req #

WD00067393

Career area:

Hardware Engineering

Country/Region:

United States of America

State:

North Carolina

City:

Morrisville

Date:

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Working time:

Full-time

Additional Locations:

• United States of America

• North Carolina

• Morrisville

Why Work at Lenovo

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success as the world's largest PC company by further expanding into growth areas that fuel the advancement of 'New IT' technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence) including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services.

This transformation together with Lenovo's world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

Description and Requirements

Who You'll Work With:

IDG (Intelligent Device Group) - The IDG at Lenovo houses our PC and Smart Devices. We combine investment in high-growth segments (workstations, gaming, visuals, thin and light devices) with new innovation in the smart device categories and continue to explore new opportunities across AR/VR, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), security and as-a-service solutions.

The Product Engineer works cooperatively within a professional competitiveness, design for cost, and product cost analysis team, responsible for evaluating our Lenovo and competitor's products, to identify and influence costs and product design.

This role provides leadership and independent influence into the product, development, and procurement teams to achieve leading cost competitiveness on Lenovo products.

• Monitors and understands product lines and roadmaps for Lenovo and competitor's products.

• This position has team members who reside in Morrisville, NC US, Shenzhen, China, and Beijing, China, and works directly with management in the US, China, and Japan.

• This is a highly visible position within the Lenovo organization with regular executive interaction.

• Provides leadership within a highly skilled engineering team, maintaining expertise in the following related areas of product competitiveness and cost, specifically but not limited to:

• New Product Budget Setting, Competitor Analysis Reports, Design to Cost, Competitor Selection, "Out of Box" Analysis, "Should Cost" Estimates, Competitor First Look, establish the Competitive Cost Indices, Commodity Costs

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• Minimum Experience: 5 years

• Program management and communication skills.

• Dedication to continuous improvement

• PC or related industry experience

• Familiar with PC architecture; CPU/chipset and performance, thermal, etc

• Ability and willingness to be involved in all details of team responsibilities, including resource scheduling, budget development and management, supplier negotiation, executive presentations, ordering and management of equipment, and negotiations with stakeholders.

• Ability to plan projects, allocate resources, manage equipment availability, implement and improve processes, coordinate, report and communicate at all levels within and outside the organization.

• Interpersonal skills. Influencer.

• Practical knowledge of agile based program management, tools, and methodologies

• Experience working in a global company

• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.

• Excellent skills in standard Microsoft Office products, particularly PowerPoint and Excel

• Travel as necessary to support teams and interface with BU's- about 20%

• Confidence to be a leader that can drive both within the team and throughout PCSD with both direct and indirect control.

Preferred requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering field

• Extensive knowledge of PC industry, architecture, technology trends, product design and manufacturing

• Fluency in Chinese is not required, but could provide benefit.

• Comfortable with autonomy within a small team

• Cost Engineering and management experience

• PC product management experience including market segments, product positioning

• Knowledge of electronics development, manufacturing processes, material selection, electronics procurement

• Strong experience with agile tools, preferably Jira

• Skilled in Microsoft Excel, data analytics, automation, and statistics

• PMP certification

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.

Additional Locations:

• United States of America

• North Carolina

• Morrisville

• United States of America

• United States of America

• North Carolina

• United States of America

• North Carolina

• Morrisville