Job Description
The role involves managing cross-functional hardware and vehicle programs throughout their lifecycle, coordinating between engineering, manufacturing, legal, and other teams to ensure successful integration and deployment of Aurora's self-driving technology across various vehicle platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and be accountable for complex hardware and vehicle programs throughout their full product lifecycle.
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives by consolidating input from various teams including engineering, manufacturing, legal, safety, and operations.
- Solicit, aggregate, and track product and technical requirements to ensure alignment with company roadmap and customer satisfaction.
- Define, communicate, and monitor key performance indicators for integration programs at different maturity stages.
- Identify, report, and mitigate risks across multiple teams and program phases.
- Understand technical architectures and propose alternatives to address challenges or gaps.
- Remove obstacles and drive momentum by supporting teams and resolving communication or scheduling issues.
- Create reports and lead program meetings tailored to different audiences to ensure clarity and progress tracking.
- Proactively schedule discussions with cross-functional partners to resolve roadblocks and improve processes.
Requirements
- Experience in program management and operations of highly technical initiatives.
- Ability to break complex projects down to manageable milestones and deliver them in a successful and timely manner.
- Strong ability to communicate verbal and written succinctly and effectively to various global audiences at all levels, from line engineers to partners to C-level executives.
- Master collaborator with impeccable attention to detail and organization, ability to influence, motivate, and generate goodwill with teammates while juggling multiple projects at once.
- Experience building project plans and roadmaps with clear dependency management.
- Demonstrated direct impact through the design, development, and launch of exceptional products and programs.
- Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks, with the ability to work closely with engineers.
- Ability to manage and be accountable for complex hardware and vehicle programs through full product lifecycle at a large scale.
- Experience soliciting, aggregating, and tracking product and technical requirements for integrated vehicles to ensure alignment with high-level company roadmap and customer satisfaction.
- Ability to define, communicate, and track key performance indicators for integration programs at various stages of maturity across multiple functions and departments.
- Ability to identify, catalog, and report on risks to integration programs across multiple teams, and manage burndown of these risks through the program lifecycle.
- Ability to understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose alternatives when necessary.
- Proactive in removing obstacles to drive momentum and progress, identifying gaps in communication or schedule, and providing support to teams balancing competing priorities.
- Experience creating weekly reports and running programmatic meetings with appropriate level of detail for the respective audience.
- Proactively scheduling meetings or discussions with cross-functional partners to address roadblocks.
- Ability to suggest and implement process improvements to integration programs.
- Ability to work near an Aurora office, preferably in Mountain View, CA or Pittsburgh, PA, and willingness to travel.
- Physical ability to work in a hybrid environment with in-office presence at least 3 days per week.
Benefits & Perks
Base salary range of $181,000 to $262,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Hybrid work environment with in-office presence at least 3 days per week
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