Senior Director, Package Design Engineering

The Sr. Director, Technical Program Management will lead a global technical program management organization responsible for driving execution of strategic AI/Datacenter Infrastructure Power package engineering and new product introduction (NPI) programs. This leader will partner closely with Package Engineering Directors, Power product group partners—especially Design, Application, and Marketing teams—Product, Reliability, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and key OSAT/CM partners to ensure programs meet committed schedules, quality and reliability objectives, and production readiness requirements. The role will establish strong program governance, identify and escalate critical risks early, and lead cross-functional technical task forces to resolve development challenges that threaten quality, reliability, yield, manufacturability, or schedule.  The organization will also provide technical program management leadership at key OSATs, ensuring consistent execution, issue escalation, and alignment between Renesas development teams and external assembly partners.  KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  Lead the global Technical Program Management (TPM) organization supporting AI/Datacenter Infrastructure Power NPI and package engineering programs.  Partner with Package Engineering Directors who lead technical package development programs, providing program-level execution leadership, governance, and accountability.  Establish and drive end-to-end NPI program plans, milestones, critical paths, resource alignment, risk management, and executive reporting to ensure committed schedules are achieved.  Create a disciplined program management operating model covering development, qualification, customer requirements, production readiness, ramp, and transition to volume manufacturing.  Proactively identify technical, quality, reliability, supply, manufacturing, and schedule risks; establish mitigation plans and escalate critical issues with clear recommendations and decision points.  Lead cross-functional technical task forces for major development challenges, particularly issues affecting quality, reliability, yield, manufacturability, qualification, or NPI schedule.  Drive structured problem solving and closure of critical issues using data-driven methods, root-cause analysis, risk assessment, and clearly defined corrective/preventive actions.  Coordinate closely with Package Engineering, Power product group partners—especially Design, Application, and Marketing teams—Product Engineering, Reliability, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and other functional leaders to remove execution barriers and maintain program momentum.  Establish program dashboards and management systems that provide transparent visibility to milestones, critical path activities, risks, issues, action owners, and recovery plans.  Lead…