Technical Program Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• BS/MS Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years recent Program/Project Management experience driving the planning and execution of software engineering projects, and releasing commercial products
• Experience handling at least few successful releases with the short release cadence in a multifaceted environment
• A consistent track record of leading and optimally delivering medium to large programs and projects, process improvements
• Shown ability to evaluate and drive adoption of new and improved process workflows in medium to large organizations
• Previous experience & lived a life as a software developer or software QA engineer. Understand the pressures they are under, allowing you to more successfully lead them in projects as well as process.
• Experience with Jira and/or JAMA, to the point that you can comfortable guide an engineering team how to use these tools and execute in an Agile/scrum manner

Nice To Haves

• Experience with new product introduction and program managing research teams is a plus
• PMP, Scrum Master certification is a plus
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, autonomy software integration and machine learning
• Experience with start-ups and/or early-stage products
• Background with automotive SW development and QNX
• Experience working with operations and fleet management
• Background with Issue triaging and diagnosis.

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering team to come up with and handle project roadmaps, schedules, achievements and work you're doing as part of the development team.
• Coordinate release content and efforts with multiple program/engineering managers who own individual components.
• Balance risks and address problem that affects release scope, schedule and quality
• Work closely with the leadership team to help define measures of release quality using industry standards
• Establish metrics to assist with assessing the health of the release
• Guide the team on driving in accurate agile/scrum manner
• Assist in improving processes and procedures within the team.
• Help streamline day-to-day operations.
• Generate KPIs and metrics to measure progress and track trends.
• Be able to analyze the trends and drive improvements through them.
• Regularly communicate the program status and key issues to management and across teams within the organization

Benefits

• equity and benefits