Senior Program Manager, Trucking
- Countries
- Hybrid, Remote, USA, Canada
- Job Types
- operations
- Experience
- managers
- Organization Types
- transportation & mobility, robotics, startups
- Location
- San Francisco - Hybrid - Remote
- Posted Date
- Company
- Waabi
- Salary
- USD140,000.0 - USD180,000.0 yearly
AI Summary
Job Description
Manage the execution of the commercial plan for autonomous trucking, integrating truck supply, customer commitments, and operational readiness. Own the integrated commercialization roadmap, track dependencies, mitigate risks, and ensure clear commercial progress towards launches and deliveries. Facilitate weekly operating cadences and produce executive-ready updates.
Hard Requirements
- 7+ years in program or product leadership in a complex technical and operational environment
- Track record of integrating programs across teams
- Technical fluency to understand autonomy or hardware milestones
- Ability to separate facts, assumptions and risks
- Comfortable telling senior people something they do not want to hear
- Builds the minimum structure that works
- Executive-grade verbal and written communication
- Set direction for a program others execute, with no direct reports
Soft Requirements
- Ownership mentality
- Varies the degree of detail to the audience and the moment
- Experience running a weekly holistic program review
- Experience taking a physical product from pilot to commercial deployment
- Experience working alongside a safety or systems-engineering function
- Experience with OEM or supplier delivery schedules
- Zero-to-one program experience at an early-stage or scaling company
- Direct experience in autonomous trucking, freight or AV commercialization
- Experience working with operations and/or commercial teams