New Product Introduction - Engineering Director at AristaNetworks

Who You’ll Work With Arista is seeking a new product leader to work on our leading-edge products.  This is a critical role, ensuring that Arista products are managed throughout their lifecycle to meet customer driven requirements, and support revenue, reliability, manufacturability, testability, sustainability and supportability goals.  You will work with an experienced internal cross-disciplinary team, including product management, demand planning, product development, supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics. Externally you will help foster a strong network of technology and supply chain partners.  We are looking for a hands-on leader, interested in being part of a world-class organization while building a strong functional team.  Strong communications, problem solving, and communication skills are essential.  What You’ll Do • Accountable for the overall product lifecycle of all Arista products, from concept commit to manufacturing readiness to value engineering to portfolio management.   • Lead a cross-functional team from product development, manufacturing, product management, contract manufacturing partners, ODM/JDM partners, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market. • Drive effectiveness and efficiency of our lifecycle management process, including all checkpoints • Facilitate new product releases: performance, cost, quality and delivery objectives • Assure appropriate risk assessments and mitigation plans are in place • Lead efforts around capacity planning and capex roll out • Monitor products to assure they are meeting cost objectives • Monitor products to assure quality metrics are being met, including production yields and RMAs • Manage products throughout their lifecycle, including post-production monitoring, continuous improvement, portfolio rationalization, value engineering and end-of-life processes.  • Define and implement product development process improvement initiatives.