What you’ll do:

• Maintain the backlog for multiple teams in close collaboration with engineering managers and technical domain experts in areas including planning, perception, prediction, controls, software engineering, cloud services, and automotive or computing hardware, and other stakeholders. 
• Act as a liaison between the engineering team and relevant stakeholders. Gather user requirements, build product requirements, and communicate to the engineering teams and other stakeholders at all levels of planning and execution. 
• Work to understand and prioritize requests, and set expectations around scope, and timeline of delivery. Translate stakeholder needs to product requirements. 
• Lead in regular planning exercises to drive product priorities across the company. Keep roadmaps, backlogs, and other planning artifacts continuously up to date. 
• Lead in regular planning exercises to drive product priorities for your team. Keep roadmaps, backlogs, and other planning artifacts continuously up to date using the prescribed agile methodology 
• Lead iteration demos and continuously assess metrics to gain visibility into feature execution.  
• Collaborate, research, review competitor communications, and analyze and compare competing products to ensure Torc maintains the best products available. 

What you’ll need to Succeed: 

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Systems Engineering, or engineering equivalent.
• 10+ years overall experience (3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner focused on a physical product that contains both software & hardware.
• Experience serving as a Product Owner for 2+ teams simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills and technical acumen. Prior software development experience is a big plus but is not required.
• Experience with Agile principles and agile management tools like Jira

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