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From the invention of flash memory to today’s breakthrough BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology, KIOXIA continues to pioneer innovative memory, SSD and software solutions that enrich people's lives and expand society's horizons. The company's innovative BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, SSDs, automotive, and data centers.\n KIOXIA America is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the SSD Business Unit Program Management Office (PMO). This senior individual-contributor role will provide program leadership for the organization’s most complex, high-impact, and strategically important SSD initiatives from product definition through development, qualification, high-volume manufacturing, customer readiness, sustaining, and end of life.\nThe Principal TPM will be based within KIOXIA America and serve as a senior program integration leader between the U.S. subsidiary and KIOXIA’s global headquarters in Japan, bringing together Engineering, Firmware, Validation, Quality & Reliability, Product Line Management, Technical Product Management, Customer Technical Support, Business Development, Operations, and other stakeholders. The role is accountable for driving execution across organizational boundaries, including integrated schedules, critical paths, cross-program dependencies, strategic risks, decisions, actions, and executive escalation.\nThe successful candidate will combine deep SSD technical knowledge with exceptional program and organizational leadership. They will operate with a high degree of autonomy in ambiguous environments, anticipate systemic issues and dependencies, understand how decisions across hardware, firmware, NAND, controller/ASIC, validation, qualification, manufacturing, and customer enablement affect the broader product portfolio, and influence senior and executive leaders to drive predictable business outcomes.\nResponsibilities\nOwn end-to-end execution of the most complex and strategically important SSD programs, potentially spanning multiple products, customers, development teams, and product generations.\nServe as a senior cross-functional program leader, establishing alignment on objectives, priorities, execution strategy, success criteria, lifecycle gates, and exit criteria.\nBuild and govern integrated program schedules covering key milestones, critical paths, cross-program dependencies, qualification, customer readiness, and manufacturing deliverables.\nAnticipate systemic risks and dependencies across programs; drive mitigation and recovery strategies before they materially affect customers or business commitments.\nLead resolution of highly complex technical and business tradeoffs involving scope, architecture, resources, quality, schedule, customer requirements, and business priorities.\nEstablish effective Core Team operating mechanisms focused on program health, critical decisions, actions, risks, dependencies, and escalations rather than functional status reporting.\nDrive accountability across functional and organizational boundaries for agreed deliverables, milestones, decisions, actions, and boundary agreements.\nProvide clear, fact-based program assessments, recommendations, and decision frameworks to senior and executive leadership.\nCoordinate effectively between KIOXIA America and KIOXIA’s global headquarters in Japan, influencing senior stakeholders across organizations, geographies, disciplines, and time zones.\nDrive product development and qualification readiness across SSD builds, firmware maturity, validation, issue resolution, manufacturing, and customer qualification dependencies.\nResolve ambiguous blockers and drive high-impact decisions to closure with clear owners, dates, rationale, and measurable outcomes.\nPartner with PMO, engineering, and product leadership to define and evolve program governance, lifecycle/gate processes, integrated planning, dashboards, decision mechanisms, and portfolio execution practices.\nIdentify systemic execution gaps across the SSD portfolio and lead cross-organizational improvements that increase delivery predictability, execution efficiency, and transparency.\nMentor technical program managers and cross-functional leaders, establishing best practices and raising program-management capability across the organization.\nChampion data-driven program management and automation to improve program visibility, identify emerging schedule or risk changes, and reduce manual status reporting.\nCapture and institutionalize lessons learned, ensuring improvements extend beyond an individual program and strengthen future product execution.\n15+ years of experience in complex hardware/software product development, semiconductor, storage, memory, or an equivalent technical product environment.\nExtensive technical program or project leadership experience delivering large, highly complex, business-critical product development and New Product Introduction programs.\nDemonstrated experience leading programs spanning multiple organizations, technical disciplines, product dependencies, and senior stakeholders.\nExpert ability to build and govern integrated schedules, critical paths, cross-program dependencies, risk portfolios, milestones, and recovery strategies.\nDeep understanding of SSD architecture and development, including controller/ASIC, NAND, DRAM, firmware, hardware, validation, qualification, reliability, manufacturing, and customer enablement.\nDemonstrated ability to influence senior and executive stakeholders and lead highly matrixed organizations without direct reporting authority.\nProven ability to frame and drive difficult decisions, resolve significant ambiguity, and balance technical, customer, business, resource, quality, and schedule tradeoffs.\nStrong systems thinking and analytical problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify patterns and systemic risks across programs rather than addressing issues only at the individual-project level.\nExceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level program assessment, recommendations, decision framing, and escalation.\nExperience working with geographically distributed teams; experience coordinating between a U.S. organization and global headquarters in Japan is highly valued.\nExperience with modern program tracking, analytics, and dashboard tools such as Jira and Power BI or equivalent platforms.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDirect experience leading enterprise or data-center SSD product development and qualification programs of significant scale and complexity.\nExperience with SSD New Product Introduction, development build planning, qualification, transition to high-volume manufacturing, and customer deployment.\nDeep familiarity with semiconductor product lifecycles and vertically integrated development environments.\nExperience defining and scaling PMO operating mechanisms, governance, lifecycle gates, portfolio planning, and executive reporting across an organization.\nDemonstrated ability to mentor senior program managers and influence execution practices across multiple teams or programs.\nTrack record of identifying systemic organizational or execution challenges and leading durable cross-functional improvements.\nAbility to use data-driven automation and reporting to surface exceptions, schedule movement, cross-program dependencies, and emerging risks.\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or 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