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Senior Program Manager- Server Hardware

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Req ID
J2444964
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Category
Design Services Group
Posted
03/31/2026
Time Type
Full Time

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

How will you make an impact? –

Jabil is seeking a Program Manager focused on our Server line of business. This role is a senior individual contributor position within the Intelligent Infrastructure Division, directly supporting transformative growth through earlystage opportunity leadership and crossfunctional program ownership. As an Early Engagement Program Manager, you will independently lead complex, highvisibility early engagement programs, owning outcomes from opportunity qualification and RFP execution through business award and transition to execution teams. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, providing seniorlevel program leadership, driving decisions, and ensuring alignment across engineering, supply chain, sales, finance, and operations.

This role requires strong judgment, executive communication skills, and the ability to anticipate risk, manage tradeoffs, and influence outcomes without direct authority, ensuring programs are positioned for successful execution and longterm customer and business value.

***This position will be on-site at our Austin, TX.

What will you do? –

  • Own early engagement programs endtoend, serving as the primary point of accountability for scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, and crossfunctional alignment from opportunity intake through business award

  • Provide regular, executiveready program updates to senior leadership and stakeholders, clearly articulating risks, blockers, tradeoffs, and recommended actions

  • Lead complex, multiworkstream programs, reconciling technical, commercial, and operational inputs to enable timely and informed decisionmaking

  • Act as a senior liaison across crossfunctional teams, partnering closely with engineering, sales, supply chain, finance, and manufacturing to assess feasibility and resolve ambiguity

  • Drive decision forums and escalations, ensuring issues are surfaced early with clear options, impacts, and recommendations

  • Establish and maintain program governance, including milestones, executive reviews, documentation, and readiness criteria for gate transitions

  • Support RFP strategy and execution, coordinating inputs, timelines, and deliverables to ensure commitments are aligned, achievable, and clearly communicated

  • Identify and communicate opportunities to simplify, standardize, or better align work across teams, improving early engagement effectiveness and scalability

  • Mentor and guide lessexperienced program managers, providing leadership through influence, best practices, and example

How will you get here? -

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field is required

Experience:

  • 10–14+ years of progressive program or project management experience in engineering, manufacturing, or technology environments

  • Demonstrated success leading complex, crossfunctional programs with significant technical and business scope

  • Strong understanding of program management disciplines, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and critical path management

  • Experience presenting program status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership

  • Working knowledge of server hardware platforms and server lifecycle development

  • Experience supporting RFPs through business award, including crossfunctional coordination and executive readiness

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

  • Operates with high autonomy and accountability in ambiguous, fastpaced environments

  • Strong analytical and systems thinking skills; able to connect technical, commercial, and operational considerations

  • Proven ability to influence without authority across global, crossfunctional organizations

  • Clear, concise communicator capable of tailoring messages for technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders

  • Proactive risk manager who anticipates issues early and drives resolution before downstream impact

  • Strong ownership mindset with a track record of delivering results

  • Familiar with stagegate / PLCM governance and executive review processes

  • Collaborative, selfmotivated, and continuousimprovement oriented

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent

  • Experience operating as a lead or senior program manager on multiple concurrent programs

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