Principal Technical Program Manager, Agility Robotics
$202-316k
+ Equity + Annual Discretionary Bonus for eligible roles
More information about location
Robotic automation for the warehouse and logistics
Be an early applicant
Robotic automation for the warehouse and logistics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$202-316k
+ Equity + Annual Discretionary Bonus for eligible roles
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make businesses more productive and people's lives more fulfilling.
Role
Who you are
- This position requires a program management background and direct experience developing complex systems
- Your ability to understand the big picture of the project design and anticipate and plan dependencies is crucial
- Your ability to take large, complex projects, break them into manageable pieces, and deliver timely results is invaluable
- This position requires strong interpersonal skills essential to effectively interact with all teams, areas and levels of business
- 15+ years of direct hands-on experience working in a cross functional Technical Program Management role implementing complex integrated hardware/software products in the automotive, robotics, consumer electronics, or aerospace industries
- 8+ years of direct hands-on experience as a systems, hardware and/or software engineer working with complex and integrated hardware and software systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience. Advanced Degree preferred
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
- Strong hardware and software process development and implementation experience - including experience with both waterfall and Agile environments and how to bridge between waterfall and Agile
- Experience developing or working on an end-to-end robotics or automotive system
- Demonstrated proficiency in metrics, working through data sets, project forecasting, and scheduling
- Experience in projecting and managing project financial and operational impacts
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of relevant engineering environments, terminology, practices, language, and products, and possessing enough knowledge in robotics or similar development from concept through to commercialization. Manufacturing experience is advantageous
- Demonstrated ability and proven track in prioritizing and managing concurrent projects and project tracks of work
- Utilizes in daily practice process improvement skills throughout all efforts and projects, with timely project completions
- Working understanding of how to identify and project manage through complex regulatory and compliance requirements
- Highly motivated self-starter with a passion for excellence, and an emphasis on the need to work in sometimes fast paced environments
- Proven ability to influence cross functional team members to meet aggressive project plans while comfortably escalating risks and proposing mitigation solutions to senior leadership
- Demonstrated enterprise-level perspective across engineering, product, commercial, operations, and finance, with strong judgment around cross-functional tradeoffs and downstream impacts to program execution and product delivery
What the job involves
- Agility Robotics is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager with experience in building and launching V1 Products
- The role will interface across the enterprise with a cross-functional engineering, operations, commercial, and product team to develop complex robotics hardware paired with software for integration into the overall solutions
- You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams
- You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that haven’t been solved at scale before
- Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment
- We’ll need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: software, hardware,systems, product, commercial, finance, and operations
- Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact
- You will create and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but will also roll up your sleeves and contribute directly
- A Principal TPM anticipates bottlenecks, uses great judgment to make trade-offs, and balances the business needs with technical and operational constraints
- You will work with a team of experts and drive the team to successfully accomplish the following activities:
- Experience aligning cross functional workstreams together to provide a comprehensive program level view
- Experience in leading and presenting at senior leadership levels, and driving the discussion to convergence
- Drive complex cross-functional trades to balance and program level objectives across performance,cost, quality, and delivery timeline. Coordinate the work of and drive alignment with cross functional teams developing complex robotic systems and solutions
- Manage the development of complex hardware and software development as well as the operational processes to commercialize the new product
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams to evaluate scope and design changes by balancing short-term improvements and long-term solutions
- Create, foster and maintain effective working relationships with multi-organizational and multi-functional groups: including systems, hardware, software engineering teams as well as operations, product, commercial and external partners
- Continual mentoring, coaching and development of Sponsors, stakeholders, team members, business analysts and others throughout the project experience
- Continuous improvement and utilization of project reporting KPIs, OKRs and milestones
Our take
Agility Robotics was founded with the aim of empowering the blended workforce, where humans and human-movement-enabled robots work side by side. Though there’s still plenty of wariness about what workplace robots might mean for the future of the workforce, the amount of R&D and Venture Capital funding into the space – coupled with an acute labour shortage – suggests that there’s no holding it back.
The company, founded by a team of Robotics and Bioengineering academics, has hit the headlines a number of times in the last few years for the mobility and dexterity of its robots which can walk around, move packages, and unload trailers (as well as climb stairs and run a 5K). This ability to run could have a huge impact, as it opens up the potential not just to work in warehouses and factories, but to complete last-mile deliveries – an ambition that Agility Robotics has made public.
It's advancing humanoid robotics with its robot, Digit, already working in logistics and delivery. With partnerships like Schaeffler AG and a new production facility, Agility is scaling up operations. Digit's tasks, including package handling, and future plans for self-replication, position the company to address labor shortages. As it enhanced Digit's AI and safety features, Agility is preparing for a future where robots and humans work together, shaping the digital workforce.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
87% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2025
$400m
LATE VC
Oct 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $728m
Company benefits
- 100% Company Paid Disability, Life, Health, Dental & Vision Insurance (for AR employees)
- Employer Matched Retirement Plan
- Five Weeks of Paid Time Off Annually
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Relocation Assistance (for certain roles)
- Stock Options (for certain roles)
- A culture that encourages flexible work schedules
- A culture that embraces individuality and authenticity
Company HQ
Southeast Mill Creek, Salem, OR
Leadership
Peggy Johnson
(CEO)Joined Agility Robotics in 2024 as CEO. Prior to this, they were the CEO of Magic Leap. They also spent 6 years at Microsoft as an Executive Vice President of Business Development and 25 years at Qualcomm as an Executive Vice President of Global Market Development.
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