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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.

About the Role:

• Cruise is looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead highly technical, executive level cross-functional programs within Cruise for our driverless vehicles! 
• In this role, you will partner with engineering teams critical to Cruise’s mission
• The ideal candidate is someone that can align multiple groups and teams towards unified goals and drive progress towards meeting our company objectives
• You will lead intra and inter-department cross-functional dependencies and relationships
• This is a highly cross-functional role where you will be working with partners from across AV Tech including Directors and VPs

What you’ll be doing:

Planning

• Partner with leaders across Product Management, Program Management, and Engineering functions to document and supervise program requirements, and turn these into engineering work plans with clear cross-team dependencies
• Drive the formulation and review of department roadmaps and objectives on a quarterly and ongoing cadence
• Work with Engineering leaders to ensure teams address a balanced assignment of critical initiatives and proactive engineering excellence investments and ensure teams don't become overburdened

Execution

• Ensure smooth execution of cross dependent programs and continuously improve execution over time
• Ensure consistent delivery of critical projects that meet the companies objectives, identifying and removing organizational barriers to execution
• Promote quality communication across departments to effectively complete and report progress, risks, and wins to an executive audience
• Lead and improve planning and execution processes at the intersection of multiple departments
• 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 increase their output

Technical

• ​​Be the point of contact for high visibility multi-functional workstreams by owning communication of team, initiative, and objective statuses to all partners, including senior management and executives
• Build systems to coordinate the proactive identification, tracking, and resolution of risks across multiple engineering organizations
• Define and maintain a work breakdown structure and balance agile project management methodologies with overarching company program schedules
• Coordinate with product and engineering management to measure progress towards our goals to ensure schedules are met and wins are celebrated
• Use technical judgment in working with large, cross engineering teams to track dependencies and risks effectively
• Ability to apply technical software or hardware development knowledge to collaborate closely with engineers and/or scientists to transform prototypes into shippable features

Leadership

• Serve as an embodiment of Cruise behaviors: Stay Safe, Own It, Stay Focused, Seek Truth, Work Together, Be Humble
• Support the growth of the team, act as a mentor, and support onboarding processes and career development

What you must have:

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar technical field
• 7+ years of technical industry experience, including as a Technical Program Manager or equivalent technical leader
• Proficient with Agile methodologies and JIRA based program management tools and standard methodologies
• Experience improving and delivering reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing and code reviews
• Track record