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Job Description
The Aurora Driver Operations Manager is responsible for leading technical program execution and operational readiness for autonomous vehicle fleet support, ensuring safety, efficiency, and scalability across complex field operations and stakeholder coordination.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate high-level engineering goals into prioritized field missions and scheduling strategies
- Ensure on-time completion of technical activities, including field operations, hardware readiness, and documentation
- Configure and deploy fleet support infrastructure for scalability and resilience
- Diagnose depot workflows and define tooling and automation needs to improve operational maturity
- Manage operating budget, resource forecasting, and strategic investments for field execution
- Coordinate handoff processes across regions and stakeholders to prevent systemic blockers
- Oversee safety, compliance, and regulatory adherence in depot operations and vendor performance
- Respond to emergent operations, incidents, and urgent scheduling needs
- Provide leadership, coaching, and performance feedback to operations teams
- Communicate operational status, risks, and strategic initiatives to leadership and stakeholders
Requirements
- 7 years of experience in high-complexity dispatch, mission control, or technical fleet operations within a technology execution context.
- 3 years of formal people management or significant program leadership experience with a proven record of driving operational excellence and leading high-performing teams.
- Exceptional strategic critical thinking and the proven ability to make sound, command decisions and take definitive initiative under extreme ambiguity.
- Strong judgment and communication skills, especially when communicating operational risks and strategic status to executive audiences in high-pressure or time-sensitive situations.
- Advanced conflict resolution and stakeholder alignment experience, particularly across deeply technical and operational domains.
- Ability to maintain flexibility for day, night, and/or weekend work, often involving rapid deployment or response.
- Ability to participate in senior-level on-call response and incident management, potentially leading cross-functional response efforts.
- BA or BS degree in a relevant technical or management field such as Engineering, Operations Research, or Program Management.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range (not specified in the posting)
Work schedule flexibility including day, night, and weekend work
Opportunities for professional growth and development
Engagement in a mission-critical, innovative work environment
Participation in a safety-focused and compliance-oriented culture
Involvement in cutting-edge autonomous vehicle and robotics technology projects
Potential for cross-functional collaboration across engineering, hardware, software, and operations teams
Support for inclusion and diversity in the workplace
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