Technical Program Manager
- Foster City, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
Pay rate: $70-75/hr w2Description:
We have set the goal to provide our customers with a high quality product, while also delivering the highest level of safety while using our fully autonomous vehicles. You will work with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds in areas such hardware engineering, software, firmware, safety, systems engineering, product and operations to achieve our strategic and tactical milestones. You will support the Sensor Integration and Sensor Cleaning Programs, and work with the team to achieve cross-functional alignment, develop project schedules, identify milestones, flag risks and clearly communicate on-going progress.Responsibilities:
- Work with leaders to translate top down corporate strategy and milestones into detailed road maps, timelines and deliverables.
- Ensure every team understands what and when they need to deliver at all times.
- Support and manage regular meetings with agenda setting, note taking, and follow up actions. Establish standard reports to provide concise and effective communications to key stakeholders on program status, issues/risks, and accomplishments
- Support the AHE TPM team with the program management activities. This could include developing new KPIs and other methods to measure performance that best translate progress toward goals
- Ensure problems are transparent, risks are identified and properly assessed. Proactively ensure that risk mitigating actions are on-going
- Support key decisions to be made by working cross functionally to understand and develop options for action and then making recommendations
- BS or MS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in technical / engineering program management. 3+ years experience as an engineer in hardware product development.
- Reference and proven track record of managing complex cross functional programs end to end.
- Experience and ability to manage international suppliers.
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity and enabling teams to perform in this environment
- Ability to keep the big picture in focus while also providing clear, well-structured, and concise communications tailored to each appropriate audience.
- Strong ability to context switch between multiple topics simultaneously, and operate in dynamic and complex environments.
- Excellent communications, collaboration and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and detail-oriented.
- Experience with requirements management software (Polarion) and task tracking software (JIRA) preferred.
- Experience in Smartsheet, Lucidchart and gSuite/MS Suite
- Project Manager Professional certification (PMP) or equivalent
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, test platforms, simulation, and automotive or aerospace processes is highly desired