We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work. 

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

The Infrastructure  team’s mission is to create an efficient, reliable and scalable foundation to accelerate the development, launch and expansion of autonomous technology. Infrastructure at Cruise builds the foundational enterprise, developer, site, and cloud technology and operations that Cruisers rely on every day. We enable robust, modern, reliable, and secure infrastructure that provides the innovation, insights, and efficiency for teams to meet Cruise’s near and long term goals.

TPM Planning

• Drive the formulation and review of team objectives and key results for quarterly and annual planning cycles.

• Develop and review detailed program plans, and also be adept at balancing them against short-term agile needs and risk management.

• Develop knowledge of technical systems to understand and handle dependencies between teams and systems.

TPM Execution

• Ensure smooth execution of programs, and improve execution and reporting processes over time.

• Understand the bigger picture and apply your technical expertise and organizational problem solving skills to prioritize and navigate blocking issues.

• Deliver high quality communications to efficiently summarize, resolve, raise issues, and celebrate wins.

• Build strong working relationships with partner teams to facilitate collaboration. 

• Apply critical thinking to scope and lead ambitious programs.
   

TPM Delivery

• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to ensure that acceptance criteria have been met, and that projects are completed and delivered on schedule.

• Validate non-functional requirements such as latency, performance, scalability, and resource cost.

Day-to-day TPM responsibilities:

• Drive multiple cross-org engineering programs

• Partner closely with engineering and product teams

• Communicate with stakeholders 

• Refine processes & tools used by your team and others

What you must have:

• 8+ years of TPM experience in fast-paced technology company

• Ability and interest in operating in environments that have some ambiguity

• Experience and ability to influence without authority across engineering teams 

• Experience leading critical engineering initiatives that span multiple teams, which often have conflicting priorities and schedules

• Excellent program management skills and experience 

• Excellent verbal and written communications

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• University degree in Computer Science, or 2+ years of experience in software development or QA or infrastructure

• Familiarity with project management tools for ticketing, planning, drawing, presentations

• An analytical and curious nature

• An interest in solving problems collaboratively
   

The salary range for this position is $155,000 - $228,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
• 401(k) Cruise matching program 
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