# Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager - Autonomy Operations

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $186k – $284k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Jira, Technical Program Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Kpi Development, Roadmap Planning, Autonomous Vehicles, Safety-Critical Systems, Program Execution, Stakeholder Communication
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> Lead cross-functional technical programs for Zoox's autonomous vehicle platforms, focusing on PUDO workstreams. Drive planning, execution, KPI tracking, and stakeholder alignment for robotaxi development and operations.

## Job Description

## 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

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