Senior Technical Program Manager

The Company

Outrider is a software company that is automating distribution yards with electric, self-driving trucks. Our system eliminates manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive while it improves safety and efficiency. Outrider’s mission is to drive the rapid adoption of sustainable freight transportation. We are a private company founded in 2018 and backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, NVIDIA, and other top-tier investors. Our customers are Fortune 200 companies and our autonomous trucks are already running in distribution yards. For more information, visit www.outrider.ai

The Role

As a Senior Technical Program Manager at Outrider, you will work with leaders across software, hardware, system and product to create both long-term road maps and near-term tactical schedules. You will organize the efforts of the development teams to align with the goals of the company and regularly report on the progress of those efforts across the company. You will need to be ready to quickly reorganize priorities and shift the focus of individuals to meet the changing expectations of the company.  You will take ownership of program deliverables and be willing to dive into the details and own the outcome.

In the Senior Technical Program Manager role, you need the ability to recognize inefficiencies and to create processes to address them. You need to be able to listen carefully and learn from engineers of many disciplines what their issues are and calculate how you can best serve them. Being self-directed and having a strong work ethic will be critical in this role.

The opportunity offers a very talented, highly experienced technical program manager the chance to help develop a market-defining enterprise product that combines autonomous vehicle technology with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. The ideal candidate will embrace our goal to drive zero-emission, self-driving vehicle adoption, and help us realize our potential to define, build, and lead a new category of robotic automation for the enterprise.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management, and tracking of external commitments
• Proactively identify and remove engineering risks and roadblocks by working nimbly across teams
• Ensure every team and engineer understands what they need to deliver at all times
• Organize and run high level program status meetings
• Consistently document decisions and communicate them to affected teams
• Create templates, workflows, and processes that are lightweight and suited to the needs of the team 
• Quickly identify schedule risks and communicate possible mitigations
• Ability to govern and run change management discussions with technical teams
• Constantly triage and prioritize the work requested of you and the teams you support 
• Be comfortable in settings ranging from technical discussions with engineers to presenting to executives 

Required Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Engineering or equivalent professional exposure
• 5 years of work in engineering program management in hardware and software
• 10 years of industry or equivalent experience 
• Expertise with Jira (or similar toolset) utilization for tracking of development activities
• Agile methodology experience
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills 
• Demonstrated analytical and leadership skills
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Ideal Qualifications

• Experience working in automotive, robotics, or manufacturing industries a plus
• Understanding of both hardware and software development and experience shipping a system solution in a timely manner. 

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $130,000 - $180,000 
• Equity: Equity package commensurate on experience and skills
• Benefits: Full health benefits
• Fully remote, with exciting opportunities to travel to our Denver headquarters for team collaborations and special events.
• Home office stipend up to $500 to help you create a comfortable and productive workspace.
• Actual compensation is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor