Manager, Project Management Office
E4T SAC
PMP
Senior Technical Program Manager, Issue Management
Zoox
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $179,000 - $246,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- Drive company quarterly planning effort including getting leadership buy-in, defining planning deliverables with other functional program managers, and providing guidance and ongoing education on planning scope as well as interdependency and risk tracking
- Support the effort to build and scale Zoox-wide processes and tools to support the planning effort while maintaining a strong technical understanding of our vehicle platforms, software lifecycle, safety release process, and test operations.
- Drive issue management efforts to resolution, coordinating cross-functional teams to diagnose root causes, implement solutions, and develop preventive measures to minimize future occurrences
- Develop and maintain standard reports to provide concise and effective communications to key stakeholders on program status, issues/risks, dependencies, and accomplishments
- Comfortable leading in a gray space and enabling teams to deliver tangible results
- Propose key decisions working cross-functionally across engineering, operations, finance, and strategy and other teams to reach the right conclusions
- Define KPIs and other methods to measure metrics that best translate progress towards goals
- Interface with stakeholders and leadership and exercise judgment and discretion to develop solutions to remove obstacles and redefine approaches.
Requirements
- BS or MS degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in engineering, program management, or management consulting with a focus on process rollouts and product launches
- Success in driving complex SW/HW integration processes and optimizations, and leading complex cross-functional programs end to end
- Proficient in tools or processes required to manage complex projects (i.e. Gantt charts, risk matrices, Smartsheet, JIRA, issue and ticket management, etc.)
- Excellent written, presentation and verbal communication skills are a must, ability to create visualizations of KPIs and program risks
