Senior Technical Program Manager

What we do 

The Technical Program Management Office (PMO) oversees the planning, execution, and delivery of technical projects within the Symbotic Products and Innovation Organization. The PMO establishes and implements the processes, standards, and methodologies for project management of NPI projects to support on-going innovations and solution/product deployments. The team ensures alignment with business objectives, manages key risks/issues, and coordinates resources to ensure successful project outcomes.  The technical PMO team is responsible for handling reporting, communication, and stakeholder management across company functions and up through organization leadership. Technical PMs work closely with product and engineering teams to define project scope, schedule, and budget. The team is actively involved throughout the entire project lifecycle collaborating with teams to ensure successful technology insertion, deployment into production, and overall sustainment support.  

What you’ll do 

• Lead multidisciplinary teams to bring new products from concept through implementation, delivery, and support  

• Work closely with engineering managers and leaders, product managers/owners, to ensure rapid execution and on time, high quality delivery of complex projects. Interact with and motivate talented engineering teams across multiple locations, harness their high energy to deliver high quality products 

• Manage robotic/automation projects that enable back-of-store space to be automated inventory management and fulfillment centers. 

• Manage technical development, integration and deployment for large-scale automation and robot systems from design to production deployment; manage engineering deliverables across multi-disciplinary engineering teams (software, mechanical, electrical, industrial and embedded controls). 

• Foster a culture focused on transparency, speed of decision-making, and a synchronized partnership within product teams  

• Facilitate the resolution of issues, risks, and challenges that surface through development lifecycle including NPD/R&D process, production deployment and sustainment  

• Manage cross-functional issue tracking to identify problems, track root-cause and corrective action plans; provide issue status across engineering teams and leadership  

• Ensure Symbotic’s Product Development Process is followed, coach teams in executing the NPD process and best practices  

• Lean-focused, continual improvement of new standards, processes and procedures that streamline interactions and communication across teams