Senior Software Project Manager
- Hybrid
- Full Time
About the role
We are seeking an experienced Technical Senior Software Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams in delivering innovative new products. Reporting to the Product R&D PMO, you will drive software project execution from concept through delivery, ensuring alignment across stakeholders, managing priorities, mitigating risks, and enabling teams to achieve successful business and customer outcomes. This role requires strong leadership, collaboration, and project management expertise to coordinate work across engineering, operations, compliance, and business functions within a dynamic product development environment.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
Project Leadership & Execution
- Lead the development and maintenance of integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, and risk-management activities.
- Coordinate cross-functional execution across software engineering, hardware engineering, operations, compliance, quality, and business teams.
- Facilitate project meetings, establish clear agendas, drive decisions, and ensure completion of action items.
- Lead milestone readiness reviews and align stakeholders on requirements, deliverables, and project objectives.
- Monitor project scope, schedule, costs, and resources, identifying variances and driving corrective actions when necessary.
Risk Management & Issue Anticipation
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, constraints, and potential delivery challenges.
- Partner with stakeholders to develop mitigation strategies and escalation plans.
- Analyze project workstreams to uncover bottlenecks and coordinate resolution activities.
- Lead recovery planning for unexpected events while maintaining focus on customer and business priorities.
- Conduct root-cause analyses and ensure effective implementation of corrective actions.
Communication & Collaboration
- Deliver clear, concise project communications, status updates, and executive reports.
- Build alignment across functions, organizational levels, and global teams.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that promotes transparency, accountability, and constructive problem-solving.
- Support effective decision-making by ensuring stakeholders have timely and relevant project information.
Process & Continuous Improvement
- Facilitate project retrospectives and apply lessons learned to future initiatives.
- Champion New Product Development (NPD) processes, tools, templates, and best practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve project execution, organizational effectiveness, and product-development outcomes.
- Promote consistency and continuous improvement across project management practices.
Who You Are:
You communicate effectively in both individual and group settings, adapting your approach to different audiences and organizational levels. You anticipate risks and challenges, evaluate their potential impact, and take proactive steps to address them. You build productive relationships across functions, cultures, geographies, and levels of the organization while fostering collaboration and trust. You establish clear expectations, promote accountability, and consistently follow through on commitments to deliver results that align with customer requirements and business objectives.
For This Role, You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Minimum 5 years of Experience leading technical projects within the test and measurement industry, electronics industry, or a related technology environment.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams through structured project execution.
- Proficiency with project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Jira, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong communication, planning, organizational, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience working within matrixed organizations and collaborating across global teams.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining focus on quality, schedule, and customer needs.
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:
- PMP certification or an equivalent project management credential.
- Experience leading integrated hardware, software, and firmware product-development programs.
- Knowledge of Agile, Hybrid Agile, Lean Product Development, or related methodologies.
- Experience driving process improvements within new product development environments.
- Familiarity with procurement and project-funding processes, including purchase orders (POs) and appropriation/acquisition requests (ARs).
- Experience supporting technical product development from concept through commercialization.
- Experience with NI products and Semiconductor software domain.
Our Culture and Commitment To You:
At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.
We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance plans, Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.