Technical Program Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading transformational, multi-organization technical programs from 0-to-1 conception through public launch and scaled operations across hardware, embedded/onboard software, cloud/mobile platforms, and physical operations.
• Technical judgment equivalent to a senior/staff practicing engineer (L5+ SWE), including the ability to influence strategic technical direction, evaluate complex system architectures across onboard and offboard stacks, and broker high-stakes velocity-versus-quality decisions.
• A track record of structuring ambiguous, company-level initiatives into clear work breakdowns, milestones, and accountability frameworks while managing interdependent workstreams and guiding other TPMs.
• Deep experience in resource management, capacity forecasting, and financial/unit-economics modeling across large distributed engineering organizations (100+ engineers) without direct line authority.
• Experience navigating safety-critical, regulated, or hardware-software integrated consumer products where product readiness, verification and validation (V&V), and field operations must converge on strict release cadences.
• Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to influence VP/C-level leadership, align multidisciplinary leads across Engineering, Product, Legal, Safety, Operations, and OEM Partnerships, and drive organizational change.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive OEM platform programs, robotics, aerospace, or complex consumer hardware-software ecosystems with long hardware freeze lead times.
• A track record of taking a net-new business line or incubation program inside a scaled technology company from early prototype/fishfood to external customer pilot and commercial agreement.
• Familiarity with automotive regulatory and homologation frameworks (DMV, CPUC, NHTSA, FMVSS, multi-stage manufacturing), consumer auto insurance/underwriting, or physical fleet/depot operations.
• Experience mentoring, coordinating, and scaling a cohort of Technical Program Managers across multiple functional pillars, such as Onboard, Cloud/Mobile, Fleet, and Release/Safety.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead holistic, cross-organizational technical programs for New Product Programs initiatives.
• Own and drive end-to-end program structure, work breakdown, and master schedule across pillars; delegate sub-projects across domain TPMs while retaining accountability for the overall program and its interdependencies.
• Serve as a strategic technical partner to Product and Engineering leadership across TaaS, Fleet & Operations, Onboard Autonomy, Hardware, and Systems/Safety Engineering.
• Establish scalable operating frameworks, cross-organizational structures, and readiness playbooks to simplify interfaces across organizational boundaries.
• Travel occasionally between Bay Area offices, test facilities or depots, OEM partner sites, and expansion markets, about one week per quarter (~10%).

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Company benefits program