Program Manager, Platform Science
$87.2-128.5k
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Telematics & trucking fleet management platform
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Telematics & trucking fleet management platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$87.2-128.5k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To modernize enterprise trucking fleets to meet changing regulatory and consumer demands.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years proven experience in managing various types of projects/programs
- Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and methods
- Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders
- Outstanding leadership skills,organizational and stakeholder management skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Displays growth-mindset
- Excellent knowledge of Google Suite; working knowledge of program/project management software
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to see the big picture
- Excellent ability to manage multiple programs/projects simultaneously
- An excellent facilitator, amazing communicator, and skilled listener with a strong understanding of team dynamics
- Demonstrates ability to collaborate, influence, and negotiate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including C-level executives and business leaders
- Exhibit a positive can-do attitude and willingness to work in a hyper-growth environment; in other words, you can roll up your sleeves and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with Asana is a plus
- BSc/BA diploma in management or a relevant field is a plus
- PMP certification is a plus
- Travel Required on an as-needed basis
What the job involves
- The Program Manager role focuses on facilitating the successful delivery of external and internal programs
- A Program Manager is responsible for driving cross-functional alignment, ensuring on-time delivery, and maintaining strong customer relationships while managing multiple concurrent initiatives that directly impact our Company's future
- The Program Manager will play a key role in scaling program execution, improving processes, and ensuring high-quality outcomes across internal teams and customer-facing implementation
- The Program Manager is highly organized, articulate, and comfortable communicating at all levels of the organization
- Lead end-to-end program management for initiatives, from planning through execution and delivery
- Ability to lead through influence by proactively communicating with and guiding executive stakeholders, ensuring clarity on priorities, decision making and accountability across programs
- Partner cross-functionally; facilitate collaboration, teamwork, and communication to provide an excellent customer experience
- Formulate, organize, and monitor inter-connected activities to deliver against the project requirements, deadlines, and schedules
- Maintain effective day to day communications with the customer to remain aligned on project initiatives and milestones
- Manage dependencies, get ahead of risks, and surface information that will allow the teams to make sound strategic decisions and tradeoffs
- Prepare status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information to ensure progress is transparent and visible to leadership
- Establish effective project plans and ensure their execution
- Facilitate cross-functional meetings, ensuring clear communication and accountability
- Apply change, risk, and resource management to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget
- Support change management and adoption for new processes
- Conduct post-project evaluation and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
- Promote a trusting and safe environment that allows team members to engage in healthy debate and collaborative problem solving
- Provide peer mentorship
Our take
The American commercial fleet industry is experiencing some innovative changes, with tech startups aiming to resolve historic inefficiencies in route setting and capacity loading. Trucks of the future will require additional solutions for software management, driver displays, and network connectivity.
Platform Science develops trucking connectivity solutions that unify many modern improvements into a single platform. While the company develops its own tools, its unique selling point is its customisable dashboard, which unifies existing software stacks to bring everything together as an all-in-one logistics freight control centre.
Platform Science's product is highly regarded for improving the driving experience and is in use by major fleets including Schneider, Western Express and Velocity. It has raised significant growth capital which will accelerate its product development, and in 2025 acquired Trimble's global transportation telematics business units to expand its connected vehicle application platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2024
$125m
LATE VC
Feb 2022
$115m
SERIES C
Total funding: $359.9m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits (some plans for employees are 100% covered by Platform Science)
- Generous paid time off and company holidays
- 401k matching
- Investment in your professional growth in the company
- Wellness programs
- Life and disability insurance
- Six weeks of paid parental leave
Company HQ
University City, San Diego, CA
Leadership
Jack Kennedy
(CEO & Co-Founder)Jack served in the US Navy for 5 years before working at the Department of Defense and working in Management Consulting for HighPoint Associates. After roles at Fox Networks, News Corp, and Qualcomm, they founded Platform Science as CEO in January 2016.
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