Lead Technical Program Manager managing cross-functional integration at Waabi, an AI-driven autonomous transportation startup. Responsibilities include program execution and ensuring successful project delivery for technology innovations.
Responsibilities
Define and maintain integrated platform program plans covering key milestones, cross-team dependencies, and ensure on-time delivery.
Ensure all stakeholder inputs are captured and integrated into program plans before design commitments lock in.
Build and enforce dependency maps across Hardware, Software, Systems and Safety, and Ops, identify the critical path, and ensure every dependency has an owner and an ETA.
Own reporting into executive forums. Surface risks early with data-backed Path to Green options, not just status updates.
Track system VnV and overall test campaigns, ensuring test coverage, sign-off readiness, and milestone alignment across teams.
Build cross-functional roadmaps that give hardware, software, and autonomy a shared line of sight on interdependencies and sequencing.
Champion tools to capture the single source of truth for program work, ensuring consistency across programs.
Build scalable tracking mechanisms and systematic processes that work at fleet scale.
Technical breadth. Ask the right questions, spot unrealistic assumptions in a plan, and know when a dependency is a real blocker versus a process gap. You can engage with engineers across hardware, embedded software, autonomy, and safety without needing to be a domain expert in any one area.
Self-starter who builds processes from scratch. Build processes and iterate based on what actually works and impose structure without creating overhead.
Cross-functional influencer. Work on highly cross functional programs spanning embedded software, onboard software, hardware, autonomy, safety, and operations.
Risk-first mindset. Surface problems early, escalate without hesitation, and always arrive with options. You can dive deep and bring clarity to status updates and a Path to Green.
Comfort with ambiguity. Thrive in bringing clarity and structure to ambiguity and convert ambitious goals into programs with hard success criteria, DRIs, and trackable milestones.
Requirements
6+ years of technical program management experience, with a strong focus on cross-functional hardware, software and systems integration programs.
Demonstrated experience working across teams with meaningfully different development cadences (e.g., robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, or defense systems).
Proven ability to build cross-functional program structure from scratch: dependency maps, risk registries, executive reporting, and milestone tracking.
Strong written and verbal communication. You can write a crisp one-pager for an executive audience and facilitate a working-level dependency review with engineers in the same week.
Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).
Hands-on experience with program tracking tools like Jira, Asana and Microsoft Project.
Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve program visibility, reduce manual overhead, or accelerate decision-making.
Familiarity with embedded systems and software development and the constraints that come with it.
Familiarity with ML development workflows and an understanding of how model iteration cadences interact with hardware and software delivery timelines. Experience working alongside ML or AI research teams in a program capacity is a plus.
Experience establishing or scaling a triage process for field issues across engineering teams.
Background in systems engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity awards.
Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
Unlimited Vacation.
Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.
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