Technology Chief of Staff for Governance and Technical Program Management - Gresham, OR, United States

Originally posted 7 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role provides strategic leadership for Technology Development governance, portfolio management, financial planning, resource allocation, and selected technology-development programs. It develops, implements, and continuously improves the governance framework used to manage semiconductor technology-development activities from technology roadmap creation through Manufacturing Release and Ramp.

What you'll do

• Lead development, deployment, and continuous improvement of the Technology Development governance framework.
• Provide Technology Development budgeting, forecasting, allocation, and investment-planning processes.
• Lead selected technology-development programs from innovation and pathfinding through Qualification and Manufacturing Release.
• Support development of technology roadmaps that align technology investments with product strategy and business objectives.
• Prepare executive reviews, portfolio reviews, roadmap updates, investment reviews, and operational assessments.
• Identify organizational gaps, conflicting priorities, resource constraints, and execution risks and facilitate timely resolution.

What you'll need

• Engineering degree in a semiconductor-related technical discipline.
• Semiconductor experience in technology development, process engineering, device engineering, reliability, manufacturing, packaging, IP development, or product development.
• Demonstrated experience developing governance processes, operating models, management systems, or organizational frameworks for engineering or technology-development organizations.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor-development lifecycles, Technology Maturity, qualification, manufacturing transfer, and product-release processes.
• Strong understanding of corporate financial systems, budgeting processes, allocation methodologies, capital-planning practices, financial forecasting, and project accounting.
• Experience working directly with Finance organizations to manage development budgets, allocations, forecasts, and capital planning.

Nice to have

• Experience with power semiconductors, high-voltage, isolation, BCD, mixed-signal, SiC, GaN, or related technologies.
• Experience serving as a technology program manager, Engineering Technology Owner (ETO), process integration engineer, device engineer, reliability leader, or technical project leader.
• Working knowledge of Technology Development governance, Technology Maturity, approval processes, manufacturing readiness, and portfolio-management practices.
• Experience with AGILE PLM, Jira, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Excel, and executive-reporting tools.

Skills: governance framework, technology roadmap, program leadership, financial planning, resource allocation