Full-Time Senior Program Manager

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 and dependency mapping mechanism incorporating functions enterprise-wide.
• Analyzes product milestones and ensures cross-functional work is planned and if approved, executed in-order-to meet objectives.
• Defines executive-level key performance metrics, including regular inspection mechanism. Work with stakeholders across the enterprise to develop these metrics.
• Engages all appropriate stakeholders to ensure all departments are focused on the highest priority business needs.
• Works collaboratively across program management, technical program management, and product management teams to ensure a strong partnership.
• Frequent writing of business narratives, status updates, and scoping documents.
• Regular communication of program status, risks, and schedule updates to senior leadership, up to and including the executive leadership team, as well as out to a broad set of organization-wide stakeholders.

What you'll need to be successful:

• Minimum of BS plus 6 or more years' experience leading programs, MS degree plus 3+ years of experience, or a PHD 1+ years of experience.
• 5 or more years program management experience; 3 years' experience as program manager in an autonomous systems organization preferred