Technical Product Manager, II

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the team:

We are a team of customer centric, data driven, and adaptable Technical Product Managers (TPM). Our mission is to accelerate technological development, increase the quality of our internal products and services, and optimize resource efficiency. To accomplish this, we apply our leadership, product, and project management skills to bring people together across the company to accomplish Torc’s mission. We are looking for a TPM to own the end-to-end Data Delivery Product to accelerate our Machine Learning Development. This includes the tools to track, prioritize, and execute Data Collects and Delivery.

What you will do:

• As a TPM II, your focus is to ingest requirements and constraints from multiple organizations and create a unified and aligned dataset delivery strategy.

• Translate that single vision and strategy into high-level milestones and detailed execution timelines and deliverables quarter over quarter.

• Break down those high-level milestones and detailed execution timelines to prioritized backlogs for teams to execute against.

• Own the prioritization of dataset delivery to enable our Machine Learning operations

• Work with all leaders across the Technology Organization to align with our technical roadmap, manage resource allocation, and execution plans.

• Use your technical and project management expertise to identify and mitigate risks and unblock project execution by proactively managing cross-functional dependencies.

• Drive the development of solutions by clearly articulating the problem space and empowering engineering to design and implement innovative solutions.

• Document our internal customer’s user journeys and engage in recurrent discovery activities to identify pain points, and impediments in their workflows.

• Be the voice of your internal customers and represent their needs, wants, and pain-points across Torc.

• Drive planning and prioritization activities during the product and service life cycle, to ensure teams are always working on the highest priorities and constantly delivering impactful outcomes.

What You Will Need to Succeed

• Demonstrate competencies and technical proficiencies typically acquired through:

  • 5+ years of experience and Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related engineering field OR

  • 3+ years of experience and Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related engineering field

• Expertise in best-in-class project management practices

• Experience working with wide variety of stakeholders, including very technical engineers and fleet operations

• Understanding of Machine Learning Operations

• Understanding of platforms and component requirements to enable data collection efforts

• Experience with end-to-end product and/or service delivery

• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product

• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product

• Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r

Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:  

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees  

• 401K plan with a 6% employer match

• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start