Technical Program Manager - Software QA

Zoox•Foster City, CA

18h•$170,000 - $222,000

About The Position

Zoox has embarked on a highly ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for our cities. As a technical program manager, you will work cross-functionally with engineering leaders across software, hardware, vehicle engineering, and product to drive our corporate strategy into tactical and detailed road maps that facilitate effective execution at each stage of our growth curve. You will work with each engineering team to develop project schedules, identify milestones, flag risks, estimate budgets, and clearly communicate ongoing progress.

Requirements

BS or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
Minimum of 6 years in program management, software development, or software validation, with at least 2 years specifically in program management.
Experience in the SW development lifecycle and SW release process.
Familiarity with project management and issue tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheets, Lucid, and others.
Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Align with Product, Product SW, Autonomy, and other relevant teams on upcoming new feature changes, tracking requirements readiness and delivery as well as feature landing date for validation.
Coordinating internal test suite development and testing cadence as needed to validate new features as well as ensure continued quality on existing product SW.
Work with tester platform and operations teams to develop new test assets for automated validation, delivery timelines and test platform availability for validation across various platforms including the Robotaxi vehicle.
Oversee execution of validation cycles. Tracking and reporting results and driving resolution to failures, blocked test cases, and other challenges as they arise.
Present program status, risks, and challenges to company leadership.
Support multi-quarter forward planning at the team level including new initiatives, process improvements, and team goals aligning timing, resource readiness, dependencies, and other challenges.