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Hardware Program Management

Career Explorer · Procurement, Supply Chain & Manufacturing · Hardware Program

Manager

Individual contributor route

Technical or professional depth, without managing people.

This family has no individual-contributor ladder.

Management route

Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.

  1. Supervisor / Team Lead, Hardware ProgramM0Optional frontline layer
  2. Manager, Hardware ProgramM1
  3. Senior Manager, Hardware ProgramM2
  4. Director, Hardware ProgramM3
  5. Senior Director, Hardware ProgramM4
  6. AVP / Head of Hardware ProgramM5Optional executive layer
  7. Vice President, Hardware ProgramM6
  8. Senior Vice President, Hardware ProgramM7

Source: SFIA; PMI; Microsoft Careers