Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager - Autonomy Operations

Responsibilities

• Partner with a wide range of department managers to translate the top-down corporate strategy and milestones into detailed technical roadmaps, timelines, and deliverables
• Influence key decisions working cross-functionally across engineering, product, operations, and strategy to reach the right outcomes, ensuring all PUDO stakeholders function as a cohesive structure
• Establish standard reports to provide concise and effective communications to key stakeholders on program status, issues/risks, and accomplishments
• Define, develop, and track new KPIs and other methods to measure performance that best translate progress towards goals
• Ensure program goals are aligned with business objectives; build and sustain momentum among cross-functional TPMs and workstreams towards delivering on time and on target, bringing order, structure, and rhythm to program execution
• Maintain a strong technical understanding of our vehicle platforms, software lifecycle, safety clearance process, and test operations, with the ability to deeply understand complex technical programs while maintaining a clear end-to-end perspective

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in engineering, program management, or management consulting with a focus on product development
• Success in leading complex cross-functional technical programs from start to finish
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity and enabling teams to perform in this environment
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to manage complex cross-functional and leadership communications effectively
• Proficiency with Jira for structuring program plans that reflect progress without need for manual processing

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with autonomous vehicles or other complex, safety-critical systems
• Experience with developing from scratch and scaling engineering or operational processes
• Experience in a high-growth company
• Experience using Gen AI tools for program management, dashboarding and scripting