Technical Project Manager II

Job Summary

Are you a trained engineer who over the course of your career realized your talents included managing projects and people?  Do you have a passion for advanced technology and problem solving and love to get to the bottom of tough problems and orient teams to solve them? Do you want to make a difference in a company that is changing mobility?

May Mobility is looking for highly motivated, activated, and energetic technical project managers who can lead teams to solve some of the hardest problems in autonomous driving. Work will include: leading teams to deeply analyze and understand problems through data, clarifying fuzzy requirements and prioritizing competing technical tasks, assessing and aggressively mitigating risks, and detail oriented status tracking.  Technical project managers at May coordinate frequently and effectively across all company functions including autonomy, vehicle engineering, software, product, finance, and operations.  

This opportunity is a hybrid role, where office work is located at May Mobility HQ in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Occasional travel may be required to operational sites.

Essential Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with autonomy, engineering, product, customer operations, finance, and strategy teams to scope, plan and track the various autonomy projects. Provide leadership in decision making.  
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose alternatives when necessary, ask questions that clarify priorities and look for process efficiencies. Take command in setting priorities based on information available and insight gained
• Proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, provide support to teams balancing competing priorities and drive results through actions
• Build and maintain relationships with May Mobility’s internal and external partners, understand their needs and drive alignment with May Mobility’s product vision 
• Help lead autonomy engineering focusing on autonomy features to build tools and processes to identify risks and coordinate on-time and high quality product delivery, specifically identifying data needed to drive decisions  
• Consolidate input from autonomy, engineering, safety, legal, and business teams to produce and distribute project work plans; Requests for Procurement, Statements of Work, Program Plans, and Gantt charts. Must have the ability to lead the team without direct reports with ownership of duties, along with follow up and corrections as needed 
• Coordinate and drive workshops with partners; build agenda, track progress and be responsible for outstanding items and next steps. Be a reliable problem solver with critical and creative thinking skills that drive the business forward 
• Provide regular status updates on autonomy projects and program progress and risks based on data driven decisions
• Coordinate and communicate effectively between development and production teams
• Drive decisions based on data and drive data needs to make sound decisions

Skills and Abilities

Success in this role typically requires the following competencies:

• Technical understanding of driving data and autonomy development
• Understanding how to make decisions based on data in conjunction with real-world experience
• Understanding of autonomy systems and various components and their downstream impact
• Ability to track details and execute tasks through completion
• Taking command of project(s) while gathering data to drive towards results - not just task lists
• Ability to clarify and document fuzzy requirements and challenges such that a project team can efficiently and effectively solve problems.
• An ability to clearly and concisely communicate technical concepts including root cause analysis, technical challenges and their solutions, and results backed by data.
• An ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people and teams

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates most successful in this role typically hold the following qualifications or comparable knowledge or experience:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Engineering, Computer Science or highly technical degree preferred
• A minimum of 2+ years of prior experience as an engineer or experience in project management including team management, project planning, status updating, and risk management. Ideally this experience is at least partially in fast pace research and development projects.
• A high level of initiative and activation. Must be able to enthusiastically take on challenges, including those peripheral to core responsibilities when needed for project success.
• Good Understanding of software and hardware development life cycles, ML feature cycle, data infrastructure/pipeline, AI product development,  integration processes, and test/validation complexity, emphasizing SDLC

Desirable

• Working level knowledge of the autonomous vehicle industry
• Project/Program management experience
• Understanding of startup fast cycle and vision to balance the long term goals
• Past experience in autonomy systems ideal

• Hybrid role based out of Ann Arbor, MI
• Hybrid employees work remotely from their home or alternative work space as well as from one of our offices or sites at an agreed upon cadence set by their leader and based on the nature of their role. _ number of days per week/month or as otherwise agreed to with manager (job function- job dependent) 2 to 3 days per week or 8 days per month in office.  Weekly 1-4 days per week 

Physical Requirements

• Standard office working conditions which includes but is not limited to:
• Prolonged sitting
• Prolonged standing
• Prolonged computer use
• Travel required? -  Moderate: 11%-25%