Woven Planet

Staff Program Manager – Development Ecosystem

Woven Planet

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Palo Alto • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $161,000 - $264,500 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own and drive complex cross-functional Platform projects across simulation, validation, CI/CD, ML infrastructure, and visualization tools to provide a robust end-to-end development ecosystem, improve autonomy development efficiency, and shorten time-to-validation.
  • Define project scope, milestones, and success metrics for platform capabilities, explicitly tying them to developer productivity, iteration speed, test throughput, and safety validation timelines, and aligning outcomes with the broader autonomy roadmap.
  • Create and maintain an integrated project plan of record (sprint, quarter, year) that unifies platform team roadmaps into a single execution and risk-management view, with clear critical paths to autonomy feature readiness and validation gates.
  • Lead cross-functional planning and high-velocity execution across Simulation, Validation, Tools, and Infrastructure teams, proactively resolving dependencies and blockers that slow builds, tests, or validation, and driving timely, evidence-based decisions.
  • Drive transparency and accountability in the development ecosystem by clarifying ownership, interfaces, deliverables, and integration checkpoints, and by establishing governance cadences and reporting that highlight autonomy development efficiency, test capacity, and validation risk.
  • Identify and resolve systemic issues in the development workflow (e.g., flaky tests, bottlenecked simulation capacity, long triage loops), and continuously evolve Technical Project Management practices for platform work, including tooling, processes, and mentoring other TPMs focused on autonomy efficiency and validation outcomes.

Requirements

  • 10+ years program/project management experience within a software, automotive, aerospace, robotics, or mobility-related industry.
  • Knowledge of the AD/ADAS development ecosystem for in-vehicle and off-vehicle stack.
  • Proven track record of leading large projects to successful delivery spanning cross functional engineering organizations of 100+ stakeholders.
  • Experience driving technical projects in ambiguity, with only high level direction across distributed teams and diverse business cultures.
  • Experience with establishing and evolving projects operations and decision making structures adapting to team culture and operating constraints.
Benefits
  • Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage
  • A rewarding 401k program
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Family planning and care benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementCI/CDML infrastructuresimulationvalidationrisk managementtechnical project managementagile methodologiescross-functional leadershipdata analysis
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingdecision makingcollaborationtransparencyaccountabilitymentoringadaptabilitystrategic thinking