Senior Technical Project Manager

Company Overview

May Mobility makes communities more vibrant and livable with fleets of self-driving vehicles that bring safety, convenience, and comfort to short-distance travel. Built by a team with deep experience in transportation and AV, our vehicles provide a trusted option to driving, helping to reduce parking traffic, relieve congestion, and reduce accidents caused by human error. We’re hiring people who share our passion for building the future, today.

Opportunity and Role

The Sr. Technical Project Manager is a project management leader who leads projects and project and program management strategies and processes at May Mobility. This position is responsible for process definition in technical project management, and organizing and leading areas in project and engineering program management.

Responsibilities 

• Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, customer operations, finance, and strategy teams to scope, plan and track the project and program management processes. 
  
• Lead engineering program management to build tools and processes to identify risks and coordinate on-time and high quality product delivery. 
  
• Consolidate input from engineering, safety, legal, and business teams to produce and distribute project work plans; Requests for Procurement, Statements of Work, Program Plans, and Gantt charts. Must have the ability to lead the team with ownership of duties, along with follow up and corrections as needed. 
  
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose alternatives when necessary, ask questions that clarify priorities and look for process efficiencies.
  
• Proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, provide support to teams balancing competing priorities and drive results
  
• Build and maintain relationships with May Mobility’s partners, understand their needs and drive alignment with May Mobility’s product vision. 
  
• Coordinate and drive workshops with partners; build agenda, track progress and be responsible for outstanding items and next steps. Be a reliable problem solver with critical and creative thinking skills that drive the business forward. 
  
• Coordinate and communicate effectively between development and production teams.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of technical project management experience of large, cross-discipline and cross-company engineering projects 
  
• 5+ years experience working with highly complex mission-critical hardware & software products. This could mean you have worked on and launched ADAS, automotive electronic devices, aerospace hardware, or other products with complex software and hardware integration
  
• 3+ years in a leadership role within technical program/project management
  
• Experience in Agile development process
  
• Understanding of software and hardware development life cycles, integration processes, and test/validation complexity 
  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; various global audiences at all organization levels
  
• Master collaborator with ability to influence, motivate, and generate goodwill with teammates
  
• Experience building project plans
  
• Demonstrated direct impact through the design, development, and launch of exceptional products and programs
  
• The demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively, with increasing levels of responsibility
  
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, challenges and risks; ability to work closely with engineers
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working level knowledge of the autonomous vehicle industry
  
• Experience working with products requiring hardware production and assembly
• 10+ years of Project / Program management experience
  
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role
  
• Startup experience
  
• Green Belt or Black Belt certification in Six Sigma