Staff Technical Program Manager, Cruise

• Proven experience in technical program management, especially within the AV simulation and testing domain
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead and mentor a diverse team of world class TPMs
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and executive leadership
• 5+ years of technical program management experience
• Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar technical field
• Relentless pursuit of execution excellence, improvement of the engineering practice and
• Passionate about self-driving car technology and its impact on the world

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager to join our Robotics TPM team and support our growing Sim&Test engineering and TPM teams within the Cruise AIR department. The Sim&Test organization at Cruise is responsible for accelerating the AV development and testing by reducing reliance on road data and developing innovative simulation and testing environments
• As an L6 Technical Program Manager (TPM) within the Simulation and Test team at Cruise, you will play a critical role in driving the development, testing, and delivery of complex, large-scale systems. You will be responsible for running project timelines, resources, and scope across multiple teams, ensuring alignment among all partners, and driving projects efficiently
• This role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and critical thinking to innovate and drive the team towards achieving Cruise's goals and good understanding of the simulation environments at Cruise
• Drive the formulation and review of department roadmaps and objectives on a quarterly and monthly cadence
• Drive agile planning frameworks that optimize work that should be agile vs planned
• Partner with Technical Product Managers to turn requirements and technical specs into achievable implementation roadmaps, including planning timelines and landmarks and identifying cross-team dependencies
• Work with Engineering Managers to ensure teams take on a balanced assignment of critical initiatives, iterative improvements, and proactive engineering excellence investments. Support calculation of team capacity vs estimated workload, and ensure the team can deliver on their commitments
• Ensure smooth execution of programs and continuously improve execution over time
• Promote quality communication within the TPM group to efficiently execute, filter, and summarize reporting across the department to resolve, raise issues and celebrate wins
• Lead and improve multi-functional planning and execution processes for other TPMs to follow and clarify the escalation path for execution decisions
• Responsible for instrumenting monitoring to measure group efficiency and effectiveness
• Establish confidence from partner teams to continuously minimize distractions or conflicts and push groups to improve their output
• Use technical judgment in working with large, cross-functional engineering teams
• Work with Technical Leads on design decisions, and contribute to the department design reviews to ensure we continue to raise our technical standards