Technical Program Management Lead - HPE

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Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all.  As an integral part of the Hardware Product Engineering team - which includes design, integration, and validation of Aurora’s Hardware - the Technical Program Management Lead is responsible for executing a broad range of planning, tracking, and management tasks to deliver Aurora’s key hardware developments. 

The HPE-TPM leader must be a relentless organizer and excellent cross-functional leader across multiple teams internal and external to Aurora. This position requires technical understanding of areas such as electrical, mechanical, embedded, optical, integration, reliability, and manufacturing. This role directly manages the HPE-TPM team, which is responsible for supporting complex, multi-disciplinary developments from concept to product. The HPE-TPM leader will collaborate closely with department leadership, engineers, program managers, New Product Introduction, and suppliers (CMs/ODMs/OEMs) to get critical developments defined, built, tested, and released on time to meet top-level vehicle program objectives. 

The HPE-TPM team drives the detailed, bottoms-up engineering for Aurora’s key hardware modules and systems. The function develops and publishes consolidated schedules that balance engineering development risk with program requirements. The HPE-TPM team works closely with technical domain experts to coordinate many fast-changing, technical details that must resolve to deliver high quality, complex hardware products. The HPE-TPM duties include organizing  the team's analyses and recommendations for leadership, and facilitating the technical tradeoffs in product development. Throughout the product life cycle, the HPE-TPM team works with internal and external stakeholders to identify requirements, track risks, set appropriate check-points, analyze budget, communicate resourcing and status, and drive technical alignment. 

As the HPE-TPM team leader, this role contributes to setting strategy for multi-generational hardware developments, establishing and refining team best practices, managing individual growth plans, and presenting status updates and results to senior leadership and key stakeholders. This leadership position reports directly to the Vice President of Hardware Product Engineering. 

In this role, you will

• Lead and develop an expert team of technical program managers within Aurora’s Hardware Product Engineering team
• Be responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution support of novel hardware development for autonomous vehicles; working closely with leadership, design engineering, purchasing, supply-chain, and manufacturing
• Lead the execution, and day-to-day developments for critical hardware developments and systems (including but not limited to custom computers, sensors, vehicle integrations.)
• Manage cross-functional efforts for tactical technology development that balances schedule milestones, cost, performance, reliability and manufacturability objectives
• Coordinate and contribute to the requirements, architecture definition, trade studies, test plans, budget, and preparation for Aurora HW development gates
• Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and technology development processes that ensure on time delivery in a quickly changing and dynamic environment
• Ensure program documents, design reviews, design change documentation, and risk analyses (e.g. FMEA) are complete, current, and available 
• Identify and resolve conflicts, inter-dependencies, and program issues quickly and efficiently by engaging in proactive risk management; communicating status and issues to the development team and Aurora leade