Senior Technical Product Manager (m/f/d)

<p><strong>About the Company</strong></p> <p>At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.</p> <p>A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. <a href="https://torc.ai/daimler-testing-automated-trucks-public/">Now a part of the Daimler family</a>, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.</p> <p>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.</p><p><strong>Meet the Team:</strong> </p> <p>This team is looking for someone with the combined technical and management experience to create the next generation of on-road autonomous driving technology, meeting customer needs as effectively and efficiently as possible. Works closely with cross-functional teams to define actionable work plans to achieve product milestones, integrate plans with organizational leaders, obtain feedback from stakeholders, and maintain a backlog of work that reflects end-user requirements and company objectives. Owns the product development plan across relevant engineering teams, represents the plan to executive management, and serves as a subject matter expert.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do</strong>: </p> <ul> <li>Act as key financial and logistical liaison and/or resource between management to either: business unit, large department, or work group. Works with management team(s) to identify, develop and implement<br/>strategic plans to achieve goals. Implements actions for improvement and practical solutions as approved by management.</li> <li>Accountable for ensuring consistent delivery of critical projects that meet the company's objectives, coordinating efforts and resources, identifying, and removing organizational barriers to execution as the internal representative of the customer to the engineering organization. Responsible for analyzing and communicating product initiatives to development teams, leadership, and other stakeholders. Break down the product initiatives into department-level quarterly plans.</li> <li>Analyze top-level product requirements to develop associated department-level plans for components that advance the virtual driver product towards commercial launch.</li> <li>Create strong working relationships and maintain effective communication across all product development teams, informing others of new features and release timelines, and soliciting frequent feedback from stakeholders for action.</li> <li>Build trust and strong working relationships with the technical subject matter experts and principal engineers that steward the technical roadmap.</li> <li>Consult with relevant technical experts and synthesize their input with your own technical and industry knowledge to create and define a balanced product development backlog which drives teams towards the<br/>most cost-effective path to commercial launch.</li> <li>Cohesively and succinctly present quarterly departmental plans based on cross-functional dependencies for evaluation and approval by engineering leadership at the executive level.<br/></li> <li>Represent product development plans, showcase recent development efforts in regular reviews, and synthesize changes in urgency to resolve product issues within the applicable department.<br/></li> <li>Partner with engineering leadership to define timelines/milestones, identify/mitigate risks, recommend resource allocation, track progress, resolve dependencies, and resolve bottlenecks.<br/></li> <li>Set clear, actionable development team workloads that deliver epic acceptance criteria that cleanly support initiative-level acceptance criteria, delegate tasks and set deadlines.<br/></li> <li>Monitor epic status and report metrics for management recognition. Clarify metrics and measurable goals to identify work, clarify urgency and importance, follow-up and verify solutions/results, measure success,<br/>review for continuous improvement and effective time management.<br/></li> <li>Provide candid and constructive feedback to development team members that maximizes team goals and individual employee potential. Report any issues of concern to managers.<br/></li> <li>Create a motivating and inspiring development team environment with an open communication culture. Act proactively to ensure smooth development team operations and effective collaboration.<br/></li> <li>Drive a culture of continuous improvement. Identify process gaps and/or new areas of focus for continuously improving engineering planning, communication, and execution.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll need to Succeed:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through: <ul> <li>BS+ 10+ years of experience, MS+ 7+ years of experience, or P