Technical Program Manager, Outrider
$110-140k
+ Equity package
Office located in Henderson, CO
Autonomous zero-emission yard operations
Be an early applicant
Autonomous zero-emission yard operations
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-140k
+ Equity package
Office located in Henderson, CO
101-200 employees
Company mission
To drive the rapid adoption of sustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- 3–5 years of Technical Program Management experience
- Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, automotive, industrial automation, aerospace, complex hardware/software products, or equivalent
- Experience with Agile and traditional development methodologies
- Experience coordinating hardware and software development simultaneously
- Strong technical acumen
- Excellent executive communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a flexible and complex technical environment
What the job involves
- Outrider is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional engineering programs supporting autonomous vehicle development and customer deployments
- The Technical Program Manager, Hardware serves as the operational leader responsible for aligning hardware, software, systems engineering, robotics, autonomy, product management, manufacturing, field operations, and safety teams around common program goals
- This role owns execution from concept through deployment, balancing competing priorities while proactively managing technical risk, dependencies, schedules, and stakeholder communication
- This position reports directly to the Director, Technical Program Management and Test Operations
- Lead cross-functional engineering programs from concept through deployment, ensuring successful delivery of technical milestones across software, hardware, systems, product, safety, manufacturing, and field operations
- Identify technical, operational, and schedule risks early, develop mitigation strategies, and drive resolution to keep programs on track
- Own program dependencies across engineering teams, proactively removing blockers and aligning priorities to maintain execution momentum
- Coordinate hardware prototype builds, software releases, integration activities, and validation efforts to ensure readiness for testing and customer deployments
- Partner with engineering and product leaders to define program plans, establish milestones, and drive accountability for deliverables
- Monitor program health through metrics, dashboards, and KPIs, providing clear and concise updates to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders
- Facilitate technical design reviews, program reviews, and cross-functional planning meetings, ensuring decisions, actions, and risks are documented and communicated effectively
- Develop and maintain integrated program schedules that align engineering execution with business priorities and customer commitments
- Drive continuous improvement of program management practices by standardizing planning processes, reporting, documentation, and execution frameworks
- Build scalable operating mechanisms that improve cross-functional collaboration, increase organizational efficiency, and support predictable engineering execution
- Serve as the central point of coordination across multiple technical teams, balancing competing priorities while maintaining focus on program objectives and delivery timelines
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and operational excellence by promoting proactive communication, ownership, and data-driven decision making
Our take
Logistics yards are complex and often chaotic settings, that present numerous hazards to human workers. Outrider supplies autonomous electric yard trucks to automate repetitive, manual, and hazardous tasks, removing humans from dangerous roles, and playing into the safety concerns of every yard manager.
The company is introducing the transformational technology required for large, logistics-dependent enterprises to keep pace with the changing times. With some 400,000 distribution yards across the US, the scale of this opportunity is huge, and Outrider has seen a lot of interest from the industry. By making its solutions electronic, it also caters to growing environmentally aware attitudes and protocols, tackling the immense carbon emissions generated by yard-operated diesel trucks.
As a leading technical innovator, Outrider consistently develops and releases new products and service updates. The company has secured significant investments, which are being used to enhance its portfolio of autonomy and safety technologies, support hiring efforts both domestically and internationally, and scale its yard automation solutions for large customers across various industries.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2024
$62m
SERIES D
Jan 2023
$73m
SERIES C
Total funding: $306m
Company benefits
- 100% Remote work set up, flexible work schedule (Flex time - off policy)
- Annual career development stipend to support and encourage your career growth
- Allowance for home office set up
- Business traveling in our headquarters in Denver, Colorado (3-4 times/year) to stay connected with the team
Company HQ
Golden, CO
Leadership
Andrew Smith
(CEO)They worked as a Consultant at Monitor Group and OTF Group for a combined 11 years, before founding ATDynamics in 2006. They joined XStream and Branch Technology in 2016, before founding Outrider as CEO in January 2018.
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