Technical Project Manager
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PMP
Senior Technical Project Manager
May Mobility
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $152,000 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
SDLC
About the role
- Lead teams in addressing challenging problems within autonomous driving.
- Conduct in-depth, data-driven problem analysis.
- Clarify ambiguous requirements and prioritize competing technical tasks.
- Proactively assess and mitigate risks.
- Maintain detailed status tracking of projects.
- Foster effective cross-functional collaboration with teams including autonomy, vehicle engineering, software, product, finance, and operations.
- Scope, plan, and track autonomy projects, providing leadership in decision-making.
- Understand technical architectures, propose alternatives, clarify priorities, and identify process efficiencies.
- Proactively remove obstacles, identify communication/schedule gaps, support teams with competing priorities, and drive results.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners, aligning their needs with May Mobility's product vision.
- Guide autonomy engineering in developing tools and processes to identify risks and coordinate on-time, high-quality product delivery, with a focus on data-driven decisions.
- Consolidate input from various teams to produce and distribute project work plans, procurement requests, statements of work, program plans, and Gantt charts; lead teams without direct supervisory authority.
- Coordinate and facilitate workshops, managing agendas, tracking progress, and ensuring accountability for outstanding items.
- Provide regular, data-driven status updates on autonomy projects, including progress and risks.
- Ensure effective communication and coordination between development and production teams.
- Drive decisions based on data and champion the acquisition of necessary data for informed decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (Engineering, Computer Science, or a highly technical degree preferred).
- Minimum of 2+ years of experience as an engineer or in project management, including team management, planning, status updates, and risk management (experience in fast-paced research and development environments is advantageous).
- High level of initiative; enthusiastic about taking on challenges, even those outside core responsibilities, to ensure project success.
- Strong understanding of software and hardware development lifecycles, ML feature cycles, data infrastructure/pipelines, AI product development, integration processes, and test/validation complexity, with an emphasis on SDLC.
- Technical understanding of driving data and autonomy development.
- Ability to integrate data-driven insights with real-world experience for decision-making.
- Comprehensive understanding of autonomy systems and the downstream impact of their components.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to execute tasks to completion.
- Proactive project leadership, focusing on achieving results rather than merely managing task lists.
- Aptitude for clarifying and documenting complex requirements to facilitate efficient problem-solving.
- Clear and concise communication of technical concepts, including root cause analysis, technical challenges, solutions, and data-backed results.
- Effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Desirable: Working knowledge of the autonomous vehicle industry; prior project/program management experience; understanding of startup dynamics; previous experience with autonomy systems.
