Senior Technical Program Manager, Release & Integration

Mission Summary:

The Motional Technical Program Management team is seeking a talented TPM to support our release pipeline. This role requires strong collaboration and management across our autonomy integration, software, hardware, operations, and testing teams. We are currently seeking an individual who has strong skills in cross-functional work, quick decision making, and execution of release activities and planning to ensure that we continuously iterate and improve. Join us at the forefront of autonomous driving technology!

What You'll Do:

Drive alignment across stakeholder teams to track planned software and hardware releases.

Actively manage execution of release activities, tracking progress against key release metrics, such as deployment cadence, release stability, or defect leakage rates and removing blockers and inefficiencies as required.

Partner with cross-functional teams to configure and improve our targeted configurations end-to-end.

Establish and maintain comprehensive release calendars, notes, and documentation to ensure transparent communication across engineering and executive stakeholders, working through technical details while conducting performance reviews and retrospectives.

Set priorities and coordinate between multiple engineering and operations teams and external stakeholders to support our overall release strategy and deconflict activities and resources.

Work closely with engineering leadership to help define and track key organizational objectives.

Proactively identify, manage, and report on risks and issues.

What We're Looking For:

Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration and automated SW testing.

Demonstrated experience in managing FW, SW, and HW configurations.

Minimum of 5 years experience working with complex systems, including but not limited to, autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, etc.

Demonstrated experience working across teams and disciplines resolving competing priorities and managing dependencies.

Creative problem solver, resourceful and skilled at conflict resolution.

Strong written and oral communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues and tailor messaging based on audience.

Experience using Confluence and JIRA to plan project activities and track progress.

Degree in Engineering or a related field.

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced work environment across multiple time zones with a can-do attitude.

Travel up to 10% required.

 This role is hybrid from our Pittsburgh or Las Vegas offices. It requires in-office days each week. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process. 

Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.

Salary Range $125,000 — $167,000 USD

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to tran …