About the Company
At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
Summary:
The Program Manager is responsible for supporting programs across departments at Torc to ensure successful delivery of program objectives. This role requires frequent engagement with stakeholders in various departments to align on the work and resolve or drive resolution of issues and risks. The role requires a high degree of skilled stakeholder engagement across all disciplines and levels of the organization, including frequent communication with leaders up to and including the C-suite. This role requires high judgement, capable of making independent decisions with little direction. This person should be a self-starter, curious, creative, solution-oriented, unafraid of ambiguity and able to work collaboratively across all levels of the organization to solve problems and drive clarity, learn and adapt from failure, and be motivated to tackle new topics and challenges.
What you'll do:
- Leads cross-functional teams to scope complex initiatives, across engineering, regulatory, operations, and safety
- Define goals and objectives that drive cross-functional teams to deliver on complex, highly-coupled initiatives.
- Drive the organization to successfully achieve program objectives and measures of success
- Clearly articulate status of program assignments through frequent updates, dashboards, and metrics and identifies, maps, tracks, and drives dependencies and risks to resolution
- Identify and drive process improvements for process issues impacting the program(s)
- Develop or improve Product Strategy alignment/communication processes to ensure cross-functional alignment between teams; communicate Product strategy and vision clearly to a variety of stakeholders across the entire company and externally
- Analyzes product milestones and ensures cross-functional work is planned and if approved, executed in order-to meet objective
- Identifies dependencies and drives dependency management between Technology and other Torc departments to enable successful completion of program objectives to deliver against the product roadmap
- Responsible for development of product growth and diversification; direct the identification, evaluation, and pursuit of new and existing target customers that translate into long-term growth and profitability
- Ensures clear understanding of dependencies between and across organizations at Torc and identifies and mitigates risks, issues, and opportunities toward program success
- Identifies and supports development of standards and processes to enable successful completion of programs.
- Monitors progress of program assignments against program objectives, communicating issues, risks, and mitigation plans with key stakeholders
- Defines and reports on key performance metrics to communicate status and issues including the creation of dashboards
- Engages all appropriate stakeholders to ensure all departments are focused on the highest priority business needs and works collaboratively across program management, technical program management, and product management teams to ensure a strong partnership
- Independent preparation and post-processing of meetings and workshops including organization, moderation, decision tracking, documentation of outcomes, as well as follow-up on actions
- Supports intake processes into Engineering from Torc internal and Torc external organizations and frequently writes of business narratives, status updates, and scoping documents
- Regular communication of program status, risks, and schedule updates to senior leadership, up to and including the executive leadership team, as well as out to a broad set of organization-wide stakeholders; and supports requests for engineering support for product demonstrations to ensure scope, requirements, and priorities are clear, and key stakeholders, and dependencies, are identified, communicated, and managed
- Sufficient technical depth to lead project scoping, understand internal dependencies, conduct cost estimation on programs, and develops and executes program management mechanisms to ensure alignment cross-functionally on objectives, decisions made, program milestones, risks & opportunities, and key input status tracking
What You need to succeed:
- BS+ 10+ years of experience, MS+ 7+ years of experience, or PHD+ 5+ years of experience
- Experienced with integrated scheduling and dependency mapping
- Experience in program management of autonomous systems or product development organization
- Experience in defining and implementing strategies and processes; experience in the interface between cross-functional teams
- Requires transportation to locations away from the site. Valid US Driver’s license with a safe driving record required. May travel occasionally to other sites. May have the opportunity for international travel requiring the ability to obtain a passport and appropriate documents
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to build trust and strong working relationships, effectively create and proofread documents and reports, and communicate to a diverse workforce
- Keen attention to detail to identify problems and processes that don’t comply with protocol
- Strong business insight and judgment, team orientation and collaborative style
Bonus Points:
- Critical/logical thinking to identify problems and provide solutions to ensure efficiency, safety, and quality
- Strong time management and organizational skills to plan, develop, coordinate resources, prioritize effectively, and maintain competing demands simultaneously with frequent interruptions and in a fast-paced environment
Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r
Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:
- A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- 401K plan with a 6% employer match
- Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
- Company-wide holiday office closures
- AD+D and Life Insurance
At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.
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