Senior Staff Technical Program Management, Cruise
Systems & Safety
$194.2-285k
Self-driving vehicles
Job no longer available
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$194.2-285k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar technical field
- 10+ years of technical industry experience, including as a TPM or equivalent technical leader
- Clear evidence of shoring up multiple 0-1 processes that has had Org wide impact
- Proficient with Agile methodologies and JIRA-based program management tools and standard methodologies
- Experience improving and delivering reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and code reviews
- Track record of driving execution across large engineering organizations and driving teams towards the next level of difficulty
- Experience leading sophisticated, fast-paced critical initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules
- Experience building consensus across different functions and groups
- Self-motivation and passion for leading end-to-end programs, encouraging standard methodologies and discovering ways to improve constantly
- The ideal candidate is someone that can align multiple groups and teams towards unified goals and drive progress towards meeting our company objectives
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to lead highly technical, executive-level cross-functional programs within Cruise for our driverless vehicles!
- You will partner with engineering teams critical to Cruise’s mission in this role
- You will drive org wide impactful processes such as Cruise wide planning and change management processes
- This is a highly cross-functional role where you will work with partners across AD Tech, including Directors and VPs
- Drive the formulation and review of department roadmaps and objectives on a quarterly and ongoing cadence
- Partner with leaders across Product Management, Program Management, Engineering and Operations functions to document and monitor program requirements and turn these into engineering work plans with clear cross-team dependencies
- Work with Engineering leaders to ensure teams tackle a balanced assignment of critical initiatives and proactive engineering excellence investments and ensure teams don't become overburdened
- Ensure smooth execution of cross-dependent programs and continuously improve execution over time
- Drive Cruise wide planning and change management initiatives. Lead and improve planning and execution processes at the intersection of multiple departments
- Promote quality communication across departments to effectively execute and report progress, risks, and wins to an executive audience
- Responsible for instrumenting monitoring to measure group efficiency and effectiveness
- Be the point of contact for high visibility multi-functional workstreams by owning communication of team, initiative, and objective statuses to all partners, including senior management and executives
- Build systems to coordinate the proactive identification, tracking, and resolution of risks across multiple engineering organizations
- Coordinate with product and engineering management to measure progress towards our goals to ensure schedules are met, and wins are celebrated
- Use technical judgment in working with large, cross-engineering teams to track dependencies and risks effectively
- Serve as an embodiment of Cruise behaviors: Stay Safe, Own It, Stay Focused, Seek Truth, Work Together, Be Humble
- Support the growth of the team, act as a mentor, and support onboarding processes and career development
Our take
The taxi industry has seen dramatic changes through mobile vehicle-hailing apps such as Uber, but these services focus simply on ease-of-access to regular taxi services. The automotive industry has seen a vast range of innovations in recent years such as electric cars and self-driving capability, features that are currently not found in existing services.
Cruise brings self-driving autonomy and electric cars together into a taxi-hailing mobile application. In addition to these innovations, the service focuses on efficiency through ride-sharing as opposed to each ride providing a single trip. Whilst other taxi-hailing services will inevitably turn to electric self-driving vehicles, Cruise shows potential to stand out through its AI-fuelled focus on carpooling and fleet efficiency.
Cruise, which has been acquired by General Motors, has received an inordinate amount of funding, including from Honda and Microsoft, with Softbank investing over $2B to scale its technology. A sum of this came after Cruise launched a limited driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco. However, the company is now facing lawsuits from the city to limit its operations there after a series of accidents involving Cruise's vehicles.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$850m
LATE VC
Feb 2022
$1.3bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $9.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- One Medical membership
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays
- Paid parental, family care and medical leave
- Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise)
- Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
- CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Craig Glidden
(CEO (Not Founder))Is also currently the Executive Vice President of General Motors in its Legal wing.
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