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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related technical discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of experience in technical program management, software/controls engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of experience leading people, teams, or complex cross-functional programs; direct management experience is required for this role.
• Experience leading embedded software, controls, or firmware programs through development, integration, validation, release, and production or customer launch.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices, requirements management, issue tracking, release management, and engineering validation.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple interdependent programs and aligning technical teams to a common plan of record.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without relying solely on formal authority, resolve conflict constructively, and drive decisions among senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with changing priorities and tight deadlines.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.
• Automotive experience with embedded systems, power electronics, electric powertrain, charging, energy management, inverter controls, motor controls, or related vehicle systems.
• Technical understanding of power electronics embedded software and controls.
• Experience with vehicle development milestones, prototype builds, design validation, production validation, software feature maturity, and launch readiness.
• Experience working at the intersection of hardware and software, including hardware/software interface definition and integration planning.
• Experience creating or scaling TPM processes, dashboards, operating rhythms, or release-management systems across multiple teams or programs.
• Experience managing distributed or multi-site teams and collaborating with external suppliers or development partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the EPC software and controls TPM organization
• Directly manage, coach, and develop EPC software and controls Technical Program Managers; establish clear expectations for ownership, technical depth, communication, and follow-through.
• Define the team’s operating model, roles and responsibilities, coverage model, prioritization framework, and engagement model with software, controls, hardware, systems, test, quality, manufacturing, service, and vehicle program teams.
• Build a culture of technical curiosity, accountability, early risk identification, constructive escalation, and disciplined execution.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and career development for the TPM organization.
• Set a high bar for the quality of program plans, status reporting, decision records, risk management, and technical issue closure.
• Own portfolio planning and execution
• Own the integrated roadmap and plan of record for EPC embedded software and controls across power electronics, inverter embedded software, motor controls, FuSA, and vehicle integration.
• Translate product, vehicle, systems, and engineering objectives into executable program plans with milestones, dependencies, critical paths, resource assumptions, and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate planning across the software development lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, implementation, integration, calibration, verification, validation, release, launch, and sustaining activities.
• Establish predictable planning and review cadences that provide working teams and senior leadership with a clear view of progress, risks, decisions, and support needed.
• Balance competing priorities across new product introduction, platform development, sustaining engineering, field issues, technical debt, and future technology development.
• Ensure that software and controls plans remain aligned with hardware maturity, prototype and vehicle build timing, test-asset availability, feature maturity, and production-intent milestones.
• Drive technical program leadership
• Serve as a senior program leader and escalation point for complex EPC software and controls issues that cross organizational or product boundaries.
• Work with engineering leaders to break down ambiguous problems into clear deliverables, owners, decision points, and closure criteria.
• Drive early identification and active management of interfaces and dependencies, including power electronics, inverter embedded software, motor controls, FuSA, and vehicle and DCFC Charger integration.
• Partner with technical leads to ensure requirements, interfaces, assumptions, and acceptance criteria are sufficiently defined for execution.
• Challenge incomplete problem statements, unclear ownership, weak evidence, unrealistic timing, and unresolved cross-functional dependencies.
• Lead software release, integration, and validation readiness
• Establish and improve software and controls release planning, including branch strategy, feature maturity, release criteria, change control, sign-off expectations, and post-release follow-through.
• Align software and controls deliverables with system integration, bench, SIL/HIL, dyno, mule, vehicle, and production validation activities, as applicable.
• Partner with hardware TPMs and engineering teams to plan bring-up, prototype builds, integration events, test campaigns, and issue-resolution cycles.
• Ensure that launch-critical issues are contained, escalated with sufficient context, driven to root cause, and closed with validated corrective actions.
• Improve the connection between engineering execution and program objectives so that software teams understand what must be delivered, why it matters, and by when.
• Build scalable systems and operating mechanisms
• Create and maintain a single source of truth for EPC software and controls program status, including schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, issue health, and release readiness.
• Define standard templates, dashboards, review forums, and data-quality expectations across the TPM team.
• Improve the use of tools such as Jira, Confluence,and engineering/release systems to support transparent execution and effective decision-making.
• Establish mechanisms for capturing lessons learned and applying them to future programs, development processes, release practices, and team standards.
• Partner across the company
• Represent EPC software and controls in program reviews, technical reviews, launch governance, leadership reviews, and cross-functional escalation forums.
• Communicate clearly from working-level technical detail to executive-level summaries, making risks, options, recommendations, and decision asks easy to understand.
• Build trust by providing accurate status, surfacing bad news early, closing the loop on commitments, and keeping stakeholders aligned through changing conditions.
• Help define and continuously improve the interface between EPC and adjacent software, controls, hardware, charging, and vehicle-integration organizations.

Benefits

• paid vacation
• paid sick leave
• life insurance
• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• short-term disability insurance
• long-term disability insurance
• annual performance bonus
• equity awards
• 401(k) Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Program