Senior Technical Program Manager, Reliability

Rivian•Palo Alto, CA

152d

About The Position

Reliability is at the core of Electric Adventure Vehicles. We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager with experience in bringing products from the early concept stages to production. This role requires close collaboration with design, validation, and manufacturing teams to ensure the reliability program is executed efficiently and delivers the most robust products. If you are driven by leading complex cross-functional programs and ensuring proactive risk mitigation to achieve world-class product reliability, then we are looking for you.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology field
4+ years of industry experience in a program management role focused on technical product development, with a strong background in reliability or related engineering disciplines.
Understanding of automotive engineering release processes.
Good knowledge of program management process and vehicle development timeline tools (e.g. Smartsheet).
Experience creating and implementing new program management processes.
Ability to work and communicate with cross functional teams.
Ability to effectively manage multiple projects.
A desire to contribute to a respectful, fun, inclusive and inspiring team culture.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end reliability program execution, focusing on all Rivian products, ensuring the Design for Reliability (DfR) process is integrated into the product development lifecycle from concept to production phases.
Work with a world-class team of reliability, design, and validation engineers to manage the schedule, resources, and technical deliverables required to achieve reliability targets.
Drive alignment and be the key liaison for the reliability development program across a diverse set of subject matters and development teams.
Develop, maintain, and drive the master schedule for the DfR program, ensuring all reliability milestones are met within the development process.
Drive the process for setting, cascading, and communicating Reliability requirements and targets for components, subsystems, and assemblies.
Program-manage and track the execution of our DFMEA programs, ensuring resulting reliable design choices and validation test improvements are implemented and tracked to closure.
Own the coordination and successful completion of the reliability section of all design reviews.
Oversee the development of reliability design guidelines and the application of reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement.
Assess, track, and clearly communicate reliability risk at each phase of the program, driving activities to successfully burn-down risk before SOP.