Job Description
The role involves partnering with senior leadership to oversee and optimize the operations, strategy, and execution of Nuro's AI Platform organization, ensuring technical programs align with company goals and fostering cross-functional collaboration in a fast-paced, technically complex environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with leadership to define, operationalize, and improve organizational processes
- Drive execution of critical technical programs by managing dependencies and tracking milestones
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration and ensure alignment across technical and engineering teams
- Manage leadership meetings, reviews, and communications to maintain clarity and accountability
- Anticipate risks and develop proactive solutions across engineering and partner interfaces
- Align technical roadmap with business strategy to support autonomy development and commercialization
- Coordinate with teams to ensure AI Platform capabilities support external use cases and integrations
- Translate technical updates into executive insights and communicate with senior leadership
- Support talent planning, reviews, and engagement initiatives to foster a strong team culture
Requirements
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in engineering operations, consulting, product or program management, or technical leadership roles within large-scale software, AI, or infrastructure systems.
- Proven technical depth with the ability to engage meaningfully in discussions across software engineering areas.
- Experience in defining, operationalizing, and continuously improving organizational operating systems.
- Ability to drive execution on critical technical programs by identifying long-pole dependencies, unblocking progress, and tracking key milestones across data, infrastructure, and software systems.
- Experience managing leadership meetings, quarterly reviews, and cross-functional communications to maintain clarity, momentum, and accountability.
- Ability to anticipate risks and proactively drive solutions across engineering and partner interfaces.
- Experience serving as a thought partner to senior leadership on organization structure, strategic priorities, and resource allocation.
- Ability to help define and track critical milestones that tie AI Platform deliverables directly to company-level objectives and commercialization timelines.
- Experience driving alignment between technical roadmaps and business strategy to ensure AI Platform architecture and tools support autonomy development and customer success.
- Experience working with TPMs and functional leads to maintain clear visibility into critical-path deliverables and readiness checkpoints across infrastructure, data systems, and ML development.
- Ability to coordinate with commercial and partner teams to ensure AI Platform capabilities support external use cases and integrations.
- Experience translating technical updates into executive-ready insights and communications for senior leadership and Board audiences.
- Ability to partner with People and Recruiting teams to support headcount planning, talent reviews, and engagement initiatives.
- Strong communication and influence skills to translate between engineering and business contexts and align diverse teams around shared outcomes.
- Intrinsic motivation, bias for action, ownership, and ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, complex environments.
- A rigorous, problem-solving mindset, honed through disciplined thinking and years of technical or operational experience.
- Exceptional analytical judgment, capable of navigating ambiguity, identifying first-principles solutions, and driving clarity in complex decision spaces.
- Background in engineering, computer science, or another technically rigorous discipline (preferred).
- Experience in AI, autonomy, robotics, or large-scale software systems (preferred).
- Consulting or strategic operations experience, combining business strategy with technical problem-solving (preferred).
- Experience supporting senior technical or executive leaders in high-growth, technically complex organizations (preferred).
Benefits & Perks
Base salary range between $160,000 and $240,000 depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity options
Competitive benefits package
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