Senior Technical Program Manager, Reliability

Rivian • Palo Alto, CA

10h

About The Position

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever, building emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles and attracting curious, courageous individuals. The company constantly challenges what’s possible, reframing old problems and seeking new solutions in unknown areas. The team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. Reliability is central to Electric Adventure Vehicles. This role seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager experienced in bringing products from early concept to production. It requires close collaboration with design, validation, and manufacturing teams to ensure efficient execution of the reliability program and delivery of robust products. The ideal candidate is driven by leading complex cross-functional programs and ensuring proactive risk mitigation to achieve world-class product reliability.

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.

Benefits

• paid vacation
• paid sick leave
• competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance
• Rivian’s 401(k) Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior