Senior Program Manager, Program Managment Office

Posted 6 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
153K-184K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Robotics • Software • Transportation
The Role
The Senior Program Manager is responsible for leading cross-functional teams, driving strategic planning and execution, and delivering on complex program objectives. This role requires strong analytical skills and collaboration with stakeholders across departments, including C-suite communication to ensure successful program delivery and alignment with the corporate roadmap.
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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, Strategic Planning & Execution supports company-wide strategic efforts, including playing a pivotal role in building and executing on annual and long-term strategic plans. This position is crucial to the business’s ability to establish and execute its short, medium, and long-term plans in a highly innovative industry. Playing a key role in strategy formulation, this individual collaborates with both internal and external stakeholders, and leads coordination of cross-functional development and execution of business wide operational strategies. Success in this role demands a strong strategic and analytical orientation coupled with exceptional communication skills and a highly developed collaborative nature.

What you'll do:

  • Strategic Planning and Execution: From Planning to Execution, responsible for supporting strategic planning efforts through a decentralized team of leaders across a matrixed environment in alignment with the corporate roadmap. Alongside the program management team, product management, and senior leadership, you drive the translation of strategic plans into enterprise aligned execution.
  • Program Management: Leads cross-functional teams to scope complex initiatives, across engineering, regulatory, operations, and safety.  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.
  • Strategy Insights: Drives efforts to bring together crucial pieces of information such as competitor performance, customer insights, operational performance, business plans, innovation, gap assessments and market insights from various internal and external sources to develop strategic options. 
  • Analytics: Analyzes a wide variety of internal and external data to provide relevant, timely and meaningful insights to the business and key stakeholders. 
  • Collaboration: Plays a highly collaborative role and will routinely work with the business’s key stakeholders and leadership in developing and executing the Corporate Roadmap.


What you’ll need to Succeed:

  • Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through BS+ 6+ years of experience, MS+ 3+ years of experience, or MBA
  • Sufficient technical depth to lead project scoping, understand internal dependencies, conduct cost estimation on programs
  • Experienced with integrated scheduling and dependency mapping
  • Strong communicator, both verbally and in written form.
  • Exceptionally good analytical skills, with an ability to translate raw information into actionable strategies and initiatives.
  • Strong business acumen, ability to multitask and meet aggressive deadlines, and demonstrate an ability to stay calm under pressure.
  • Proven ability to establish and implement strategies and manage complex cross-functional projects.
  • Preferred: Experience in the automotive, safety-critical systems product development, or software industry.

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r  

Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:     

  • A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options  
  • 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees    
  • 401K plan with a 6% employer match  
  • Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date) 
  • Company-wide holiday office closures  
  • AD+D and Life Insurance 



Hiring Range for Job Opening 

US Pay Range

$153,200$183,800 USD

At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply. 

The Company
HQ: Blacksburg, VA
500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Torc Robotics is an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, a global leader and pioneer in trucking. Founded in 2005 at the birth of the self-driving vehicle revolution, we have 17 years of experience in pioneering safety-critical, self-driving applications. Torc offers a complete self-driving vehicle software and integration solution and is currently focusing on commercializing self-driving trucks.

Why Work With Us

Every Torc’r is unique. The traits that define and motivate us to save lives are what unite us. At Torc, we recognize that technical prowess is only part of the equation. Our team includes people with a consistent drive to accomplish great things. We look for those who don’t let ego get in the way of teamwork.

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