About the position
The Tesla Bot team is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive designs of various mechanical parts and assemblies. This TPM will handle creating and managing subsystem program timelines, closely collaborating with design engineering teams to define scopes to meet goals and hit various milestones in a fast-paced environment. A champion of cost / quality / time impact matrix to make decisions easier for relevant stakeholders without compromising speed. You will be leading cross functional alignment meetings, helping translate requirements into actions for the mechanical engineers, providing insights into internal and external lead times to set realistic expectations, working alongside supply chain teams to procure samples for various builds, identifying gaps and driving SIE teams to achieve process improvements, supporting CAD /documentation releases for DFM and driving supplier lead times, etc. will be amongst the day-to-day tasks for this role.
Responsibilities
- Manage mechanical product development programs from end-to-end for Tesla robot, working closely with cross-functional teams including, but not limited to electrical Distribution, Mechanical, Sensing, Thermal, Test and Reliability, Sourcing, Supplier Industrialization, and New Product Introduction
- Motivate cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative and productive working environment
- Work collaboratively with engineering leads to set goals while tracking deliverables on timelines and otherwise, communicate and secure resources, align on strategies to meet program needs by making a judgement call on what maturity of parts should be delivered for what builds
- Find creative ways to mitigate program risks and meet the schedule despite setbacks
- Communicate engineering requirements between Supply Chain and purchasing to facilitate material planning, interface with sub-tier suppliers as and when needed to unblock sample builds
- Constantly evolve our processes towards increasing precision and dependability, while keeping the agility that has gotten Tesla where we are now
- Lead your teams with strength and confidence through rapid development cycles, changing requirements, and uncertainty
- Ability to work within a complex and fluid, fast-paced, demanding work environment
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of experience in technical program management or project leadership, preferably in a Mechanical / Mechatronics hardware development field
- Degree in Mechanical, Robotics, Materials Engineering or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with key program management tools like JIRA, Confluence, Thinkcell, PowerPoint
- Strong documentation (timelines, presentations, decision matrix etc.) and organizational skills, with the ability to drive progress on multiple tracks independently
- Ability to work cross functionally between engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance personnel with strong communicational skills
