Senior Technical Program Manager, Autonomous Driving Simulation

What you will do:

• Effectively communicates and collaborates with stakeholders and development teams.
• Owns project life cycles, leads project kick-off and close out activities.
• Develops and maintains project plans, in conjunction with the project team, to meet milestones and completion dates.
• Keeps project progress well monitored, proactively overcome project challenges and mitigate risks. Ensures project team members meet assigned project deliverables and deadlines. 
• Effectively manages project deliverable changes and determines their impact on related and interdependent tasks and projects.
• Leads project meetings with stakeholders to monitor and support the project’s ongoing progression. Provides project status reports to senior leadership.
• Provides and manages project related documentation.
• Outlines, documents and shares lessons-learned, and improves management skills for future projects.

What You Will Need: 

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
• 3+ years of combined experience in project management and relevant engineering work
• Exceptional interpersonal skills. Capable of listening and obtaining clarification, changing approach or method to best fit the situation. Able to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, understand and interpret stakeholder needs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Software development life cycle and Software Release cycle
• Experience creating and maintaining project plans, including: scope, schedules, resources and risks.
• Ability to maintain quality of execution throughout aggressive deadlines, changing priorities, and evolving operations, as common to fast-paced start-up environments.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to coordinate multiple tasks and support projects of varying complexity concurrently.
• Proven success with leading several small cross-functional teams, ensuring clear focus and direction, and delivering projects on schedule.

What Is Preferred: 

• Experience in automobile industry
• Experience in self driving related technologies
• Experience in simulation related technologies
• Experience using management tools and familiarity with SCRUM methodology

Our Benefits:

We take pride in providing a robust, well-rounded benefits package available to eligible employees. For this reason, we offer benefits for healthcare, tax savings, well-being, income protection, voluntary benefits and paid holidays such as...

• 100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for your spouse or domestic partner, your dependents, and you 
• Unlimited snacks, drinks, special treats, fruits, meals, and more available
• Monthly gym membership reimbursement
• Monthly team building budget
• Free Coursera enterprise account
• Annual tuition reimbursement 
• Employer-paid life insurance, long, and short term disability