Senior Program Manager, Program Management Office

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

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.

Summary:

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for supporting programs across departments at Torc to ensure successful delivery of program objectives. This role is responsible for developing & leading cross-functional program management mechanisms that drive product development activities across the enterprise. Mechanisms this role will lead includes, but not limited to, change control board (CCB), risk review board (RRB), run an integrated schedule mechanism, and other product development alignment mechanisms.

This role requires frequent engagement with stakeholders in various departments to align on the work and resolve or drive resolution of issues and risks. The role requires a high degree of stakeholder engagement across all disciplines and levels of the organization, including frequent communication with leaders up to and including the C-suite. This role requires high judgement, capable of making independent decisions with little direction. This person should be a self-starter, curious, creative, solution-oriented, unafraid of ambiguity and able to work collaboratively across all levels of the organization to solve problems and drive clarity, learn and adapt from failure, and be motivated to tackle new topics and challenges.

What you'll being doing:

• Leads cross-functional team members to drive complex, ambiguous program management mechanisms across engineering, regulatory, operations, and safety.
• Define mechanisms from scratch that ensure cross-functional communication, integrated goal planning and tracking, and aligning work streams across the enterprise.
• Define goals and objectives that drive cross-functional teams to deliver on complex, highly-coupled initiatives.
• Drive the organization to successfully achieve program objectives and measures of success.
• Clearly articulate status of programs, projects, and initiatives through frequent updates, dashboards, and metrics.
• Identify, map, track, and drive dependencies to resolution.
• Create and drive enterprise-wide use of a risk, issues, and opportunities mechanism, including mitigation paths.
• Develop & operate an integrated scheduling …