Waabi - Senior / Lead Technical Program Manager, Platform Software
Requirements
• 5+ years of technical program management experience, with a strong focus on cross-functional software integration programs for hardware platforms. • Demonstrated experience working across teams with meaningfully different development cadences (e.g., robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, or defense systems). • Possess a deep understanding of software development lifecycles. • 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 or robotics. • Familiarity with embedded systems and software development and the constraints that come with it. • Hands-on experience with program tracking tools like Jira, Asana and Microsoft Project. • Experience with onboard compute bring-up, physical infrastructure, or hardware-in-the-loop testing. • Familiarity with hardware development and systems and safety processes, and how they affect software delivery timelines. • Working understanding of automotive development process (eg ASPICE) and how to adapt it to a nimble environment • 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. • The US yearly salary range for this role is: $150,000 - $230,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi (US) Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.
Responsibilities
• Define and maintain integrated platform software program plans covering key milestones, cross-team dependencies, and ensure on-time delivery. • Partner with Hardware Platform Managers to coordinate physical infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems work needed to bring up different platforms. • Ensure all stakeholder inputs are captured and integrated into program plans before design commitments lock in. • Build and enforce dependency maps across Physical Infrastructure, Onboard Software, Embedded Systems, Hardware and Operations, 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. • Track platform software releases, bring-up and test campaigns, ensuring test coverage, sign-off readiness, and milestone alignment across teams. • Build cross-functional roadmaps that give physical infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems 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 physical infrastructure, onboard software, hardware, vehicle reliability, systems engineering and embedded systems 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 physical infrastructure, onboard software, embedded systems, and hardware. • 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.
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. • As we grow, this list continues to evolve! • Waabi is a technology start-up building technologies to transform the way the world moves. Join our talented team to be a part of the future and to make an impact!
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