Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform Milestones

Mission Summary:

Motional is seeking a Senior TPM to join our Platform Milestones team.  The qualified applicant will contribute directly to Motional's driverless future by overseeing the technical aspects of company-wide milestones through effective cross-functional leadership. This person will shape and lead future company milestones by collaborating with both technical and non-technical teams, ensuring a balance between company objectives, partnership goals, and technical feasibility.

As a key member of a collaborative team working closely with other Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and technical leaders across the organization, you will contribute to building comprehensive technical roadmaps, addressing program-wide risks, and developing schedules to achieve our company's overarching goals.

In your day-to-day responsibilities, you will focus on identifying gaps and risks throughout the entire program, actively driving risk mitigations and solution paths in collaboration with key stakeholders to maintain program alignment. You will provide clear and concise updates to both leadership and the working-level team to ensure organizational coherence.

Furthermore, you'll play a pivotal role at the forefront of industry breakthroughs, facilitating the development of fully autonomous vehicles across diverse operational domains. This dynamic role involves clarifying ambiguous objectives by fostering collaboration with cross-functional teams through an iterative process that yields impressive results.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborating cross-functionally to define the next company goals and objectives
• Setting priorities and coordinating between internal engineering teams and stakeholders to support development from concept through launch
• Managing day-to-day program execution, tracking progress against key milestones, and resolving blockers and inefficiencies
• Identifying risks and working with the team to develop action plans, proactively tracking issues until closure
• Communicating analyses and recommendations clearly and concisely to leadership and the team

What we're looking for:

• A problem solver comfortable discussing technical details with engineers and communicating synthesized summaries to a cross-functional audience
• Ownership mindset willing to proactively initiate actions to reduce barriers and make effective decisions
• Passion for quick learning and bringing clarity to ambiguous situations
• Someone who thrives on solving big problems by breaking them down into milestones and collaborating with a team to execute plans
• Willingness to initiate and maintain strategic relationships with stakeholders inside and outside the company

More specifically, our team is looking for a TPM with:

• A degree in Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of hands-on engineering experience (preferably in Systems, Robotics, Software, or Hardware disciplines)
• 3+ years of experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary technical programs with competing priorities (cost, schedule, feasibility)
• Creative problem-solving skills in fast-paced, dynamic environments
• Experience in hardware development (autonomous vehicles, consumer electronics, and/or robotics) and an understanding of software development life cycles/dependencies
• Experience in managing and driving overarching program-level deliverables, including leadership and partnership skills, and a strong sense of urgency and assertiveness
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Bonus Points:

• MS degree or related field
• Familiarity with AV development process
• Experience launching a product from idea to production

You will experience a fast paced working environment where you’ll be challenged to find new ways of working.  Your colleagues are eager for new ideas to address the challenging problems still remaining to be solved.  Our team is commercializing a world-class driverless system. The Motional team is behind some of the industry’s largest leaps forward in the last decade, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world’s first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world’s most-established public robotaxi fleet. Strategically formed by Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives.  We value diversity, equity, and inclusion and provide a supportive work environment that prioritizes collaboration, communication, and creativity. Our team members are committed to delivering high-quality results that make a real diff