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.
- Supervisor / Team Lead, Hardware ProgramM0Optional frontline layer
- Manager, Hardware ProgramM1
- Senior Manager, Hardware ProgramM2
- Director, Hardware ProgramM3
- Senior Director, Hardware ProgramM4
- AVP / Head of Hardware ProgramM5Optional executive layer
- Vice President, Hardware ProgramM6
- Senior Vice President, Hardware ProgramM7
Source: SFIA; PMI; Microsoft Careers