Staff Technical Program Manager
About Stack:
Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. Stack's autonomous technology incorporates cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies, empowering us to create innovative solutions that address the needs and challenges of the dynamic trucking transportation industry. With decades of experience creating and deploying real world systems for demanding environments, the Stack team is dedicated to developing an autonomous solution ecosystem tailored to the trucking industry's unique demands.
About the Role:
The Technical Program Management (TPM) staff is a dynamic and close-knit team with broad experience across robotics/AI including self-driving cars, government robotics, startups, and commercial robot deployments. Led by a former founder of a successful robotics company, our team is passionate about shaping the engineering process and execution of a world-class engineering organization. This is a chance to work with industry leaders to drive success in AI and autonomy advancements.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with technical leads to manage end to end workstreams for the tools and infrastructure that supports driverless operations and the core autonomy capabilities.
- Keep granular track of technical breakdown of activities scoped for each product milestone and maintain a cross functional roadmap of everything that needs to be accomplished to deliver to that product milestone.
- Develop a detailed tactical schedule as well as high level long term plans for the workstreams assigned balancing execution to the current priority needs while making progress towards the long term vision.
- Identify bottlenecks / limitations in team deliverables and partner closely with cross functional teams on any dependencies to architect solutions.
- Maintain and track risks as well as uncertainties and develop contingency plans to ensure the workstreams do not stall. Be prepared to handle multiple workstreams as part of your scope (adjusted by level hired).
- Constantly evaluate tradeoffs that need to be made in a resource constrained environment, and flag issues where a decision is required. Facilitate buy in across teams and make recommendations when needed to get the team out of a stalemate.
- Develop relationships with your cross functional stakeholders that will allow you to push pull on a technical path forward as needed through constructive discussion and brainstorming.
- Develop reporting proposals and report out on behalf of the workstreams assigned in various forums e.g. standups, exec reviews, all hands etc. Help the teams pull together relevant information needed to present to the broader org from time to time.
- Work with leadership on engineering process improvements.
Qualifications:
- Strong experience as a hands on engineer prior to becoming a TPM required in robotics, automotive, aerospace or technology domains.
- Strong understanding of complex safety critical systems integration in one or more domains mentioned above.
- Familiarity or past experience in autonomous robotic systems is preferred.
- Familiarity with standard TPM tooling like JIRA, Big Picture, Google Slides, Sheets or equivalent.
- Familiarity with typical HW and SW development lifecycles in a robotics environment is highly desirable.
- Excellent communication and teamwork.
- Hyper organized mindset with an acute focus on details required.
- Willingness to jump into an unknown area to solve problems and learn something new is desirable.
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