About this Senior Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure role at Motional
The Motional Technical Program Management team is seeking to hire an experienced Infrastructure TPM to help drive integrated software programs with a focus on cloud applications and developer platform engineering. This role requires strong collaboration and management across our infrastructure, systems, autonomy, embedded software, hardware, operations and testing teams in order to achieve program-level activities and milestones. We are seeking an individual who has experience in driving alignment across the organization with a heavy focus on infrastructure teams and understanding what’s required to deliver a driverless robotaxi. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of autonomous driving technology!
What You'll Do
- Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful infrastructure program execution and team velocity across groups of cross-functional teams and across departments. Be an effective proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.
- Ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.
- Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
- Proactively identify program risks and mitigations, working with teams to develop action plans and drive escalations to bring issues to closure
- Partner with engineering leaders to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones
- Perform value stream mapping to develop and implement processes which will improve organizational effectiveness.
- Track and communicate the progress of the team or group’s key programs. Define efficient processes for communicating group program status more broadly.
- Communicate to leadership in regular forums, contribute to executive deliverables, and provide your team’s analyses and recommendations in a clear and concise way that captures impact
- Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results proactively.
- Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.
What We're Looking For
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in technical program management or a related technical role, with experience driving cross-functional engineering programs.
- Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas: software developer platforms, cloud applications, API integrations, virtualization tools, CI/CD pipelines, testing and simulation infrastructure, or software release processes.
- Extensive demonstrated experience with managing various stakeholder inputs at multiple levels
- Strong written and oral communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse global team
- Strong teamwork, communication, and presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced work environment across multiple time zones with a can-do attitude.
Bonus Points:
- Knowledge of general autonomous system software and hardware, including perception, simulation methods, and hardware-in-the-loop.
- Previous experience working within the robotics, autonomy, or embedded software domain areas.
- Prior hands-on software engineering experience.
Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.
Our journey is always people first.
We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.
Higher purpose, greater impact.
We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.
Scale up, not starting up.
Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.
Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.
