Chief of Staff, Nuro Driver

Strategic Program Leadership

• Lead high-priority strategic programs across Nuro Driver, including initiatives tied to autonomy product maturity, partner readiness, deployment milestones, and commercialization.
• Create structure around ambiguous technical and business problems, turning broad goals into clear workstreams, owners, timelines, risks, and decision points.
• Drive cross-organizational initiatives involving Nuro Driver, AI Platform, Vehicle Platform & Hardware, Safety, Operations, Legal, Finance, and People.
• Partner with technical leaders to identify critical paths, resolve dependencies, unblock progress, and escalate issues with the right context and urgency.
• Ensure complex initiatives move from discussion to decision to execution, with clear accountability and follow-through.

Autonomy Product & Partner Execution

• Support strategic partner initiatives by coordinating across technical, product, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Help define the right forums, processes, and artifacts to align partner expectations with Nuro Driver’s roadmap and execution plans.
• Identify gaps between partner requirements, internal technical readiness, and deployment milestones, then drive the work needed to close them.

VP of Nuro Driver Proxy & Executive Support

• Operate as a trusted proxy for the VP of Nuro Driver in key forums, helping drive decisions, clarify priorities, and ensure follow-through.
• Act as a strategic filter for the VP, ensuring leadership time and organizational energy are focused on the highest-impact initiatives.
• Prepare executive-level narratives, updates, and materials for company leadership, Board meetings, partner discussions, planning forums, and strategic reviews.
• Provide insight into organizational execution, leadership effectiveness, operating gaps, and priority tradeoffs.
• Represent the VP’s priorities with clarity and judgment while knowing when to escalate, align, or drive independently.

Nuro Driver Operating Cadence

• Improve Nuro Driver’s operating cadence across planning, decision-making, communication, and execution.
• Facilitate leadership meetings, technical reviews, milestone reviews, offsites, and cross-functional operating forums.
• Drive clear communication and reporting across all levels of the organization, including leadership updates, all-hands, planning reviews, and company-level forums.
• Proactively identify execution risks, organizational gaps, and cross-functional dependencies before they become blockers.
• Help the organization operate with sharper priorities, faster decision-making, and stronger accountability.

People & Organizational Initiatives

• Partner with the People Team and Nuro Driver leadership on recruiting, onboarding, performance, talent reviews, engagement, learning and development, and retention initiatives.
• Support organizational design and operating model work as Nuro Driver scales across autonomy, embedded software, controls, calibration, systems, validation, and commercial milestones.
• Help reinforce a high-performance technical culture centered on ownership, speed, quality, accountability, and clear decision-making.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management, business operations, product/program management, engineering operations, management consulting, corporate strategy, or a related field.
• Experience working closely with engineering teams, ideally in robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, controls, calibration, systems engineering, AI, automotive, or another complex product development environment.
• Track record of driving complex, high-impact programs across multiple teams, senior stakeholders, and ambiguous problem spaces, proactively creating structure and turning strategy into rigorous execution in fast-moving environments.
• Ability to quickly understand technical and product context, identify what matters, and translate complexity into clear, actionable decisions and communication, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable acting as a proxy for senior engineering leadership: representing priorities, building trust across technical and non-technical partners (engineering, product, operations, finance, legal, people, and executive teams), driving alignment, and influencing without direct authority.
• Experience preparing materials for executive audiences, partner discussions, Board meetings, or senior leadership forums.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience supporting customer-facing or partner-facing technical programs.
• Experience managing stakeholders across multiple offices, companies, and time zones.
• MBA, experience working at a top consulting firm, or similar experience.
• Fluency in using AI tools.

Compensation

Base pay range: $193930 - $291150 (depends on experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills). Eligible for annual performance bonus, equity, and competitive benefits package.