Senior Technical Program Manager, SW Infrastructure

The Motional Technical Program Management team is seeking to hire an experienced Infrastructure TPM to help drive integrated software programs. This role requires strong collaboration and management across our infrastructure, systems, autonomy, embedded software, hardware, operations and testing teams in order to achieve program-level activities and milestones. We are seeking an individual who has experience in driving alignment across the organization with a heavy focus on infrastructure teams and understanding what’s required to deliver a driverless robotaxi. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of autonomous driving technology!

What You'll Do

• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful infrastructure program execution and team velocity across groups of cross-functional teams and across departments. Be an effective proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.
• Ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Proactively identify program risks and mitigations, working with teams to develop action plans and drive escalations to bring issues to closure
• Partner with engineering leaders to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones
• Perform value stream mapping to develop and implement processes which will improve organizational effectiveness.
• Track and communicate the progress of the team or group’s key programs. Define efficient processes for communicating group program status more broadly.
• Communicate to leadership in regular forums, contribute to executive deliverables, and provide your team’s analyses and recommendations in a clear and concise way that captures impact
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.

What We're Looking For

• Extensive demonstrated experience with software developer platforms, CI/CD pipeline, cloud applications, virtual tools, testing and simulation, and software release process.
• Extensive demonstrated experience with managing various stakeholder inputs at multiple levels
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor junior team members
• Minimum of 5 years experience in the robotics, autonomy, or embedded software domain areas. Knowledge of general autonomous system software and hardware including perception, simulation methods, and hardware
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics or a related technical field. 
• Strong written and oral communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse global team
• Strong teamwork, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced work environment across multiple time zones with a can-do attitude. 
• Ability to support conference calls in Asia business hours to coordinate program tasks with team in Singapore

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above - that’s okay! We encourage you to apply if you think this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and that you can deliver the results we need.

Because travel is an essential function of the job, Motional  currently requires those performing this role to be fully vaccinated. Anyone hired into this role should be vaccinated by their start date. Motional is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated where it is not an undue hardship to the Company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law