Senior Staff Product and Program Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Partner tightly with software and firmware engineering leaders to drive successful planning and delivery of software for hardware/software integration programs.
• Serve as a go-to resource for information and up-to-date status for relevant programs including facilitating regular executive program reviews.
• Develop detailed credible engineering plans for bringing up software to enable new hardware platforms, from conception to on-road.
• Partner with other TPMs and Product Managers (across hardware and software) to understand the company product roadmap and upcoming hardware programs requiring software support.
• Partner closely with Hardware Product and Engineering teams to inform future hardware architecture from the lens of software requirements and feasibility.
• Engage Vehicle Operations teams across all sites to help facilitate initial bring-up, testing, and eventually deployment of new hardware platforms.
• Be a conduit for feedback from first-line operations and reliability engineers to improve product capabilities and development processes.
• Help evolve and streamline approaches and processes for bringing up new hardware platforms in conjunction with the hardware, software, and operations teams.

Job requirements

• This role requires up to 25% travel in the US and to Europe as needed to collaborate with our hardware partners and other cross-functional teams.
• Minimum of 7 years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Product Manager, or Engineering Manager, in an autonomous systems, robotics, embedded systems, or software development environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Information Systems or a related area, or the equivalent in experience with evidence of exceptional ability preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust communication based on audience.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely with engineers.
• Strong experience in project management; practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and ability to apply them where best suited.
• Ability to work in one of our offices at least 3 days per week.