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As a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for leading highly sophisticated and multi-functional technical programs, setting milestones, and driving execution to ensure successful on-time delivery. You will be driving planning and execution across the Department partnering with senior leaders in the org. TPMs are responsible for the “when” and the “how” of the program, and hold their teams accountable to deliver on engineering projects to achieve business objectives.
Drive the formulation and review of department roadmaps and objectives on a quarterly and monthly cadence
Drive planning frameworks that optimize work that should be agile vs planned
Partner with Technical Product Managers to turn requirements and technical specs into achievable implementation roadmaps, including planning timelines and landmarks and identifying cross-team dependencies
Work with Engineering Leaders (Managers, Directors, VPs) to ensure teams address a balanced assignment of critical initiatives, iterative improvements, and proactive engineering excellence investments. Support calculation of team capacity vs estimated workload, and ensure the team can deliver on their commitments
Ensure smooth execution of programs and continuously improve execution over time
Promote quality communication within the TPM group to efficiently complete, filter, and summarize reporting across the department to resolve, raise issues, and celebrate wins.
Lead and improve multi-functional planning and execution processes for other TPMs to follow and clarify the critical issue path for execution decisions
Responsible for instrumenting monitoring to measure group efficiency and effectiveness
Establish confidence from partner teams to continuously minimize distractions or conflicts and push groups to enhance their output.
Apply technical judgment in working with large, cross-functional engineering teams
Work with Technical Leads on design decisions, and chip in to the department design reviews to ensure we continue to raise our technical standards
8+ years of technical program management experience
Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar technical field
Track record of driving execution across large engineering org and driving teams toward the next level of difficulty
Experience leading sophisticated fast-paced safety-critical initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules
Effective at building consensus across different functions.
Self-motivation and passion to manage your teams, encourage standard methodologies and constantly improve
Interest in self-driving car technology and its impact on the world
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