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.
Meet the Team:
The Program Manager is responsible for supporting programs across departments at Torc to ensure successful delivery of program objectives. 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 skilled stakeholder engagement with various levels of the organization which may include communication with the C-suite. 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 do:
- Support Commercial organization in development, refinement, and maintenance of Commercial Roadmap.
- Drive further expansion of roadmap milestones into more detailed and actionable plans.
- Drive the organization to successfully achieve program objectives and measures of success.
- Clearly articulate status of program assignments through frequent updates, dashboards, and metrics.
- Identify, map, track, and drive dependencies and risks to resolution.
- Identify and drive process improvements for process issues impacting the program(s).
- Analyzes product milestones and ensures cross-functional work is planned and if approved, executed in-order-to meet objectives.
- Identifies dependencies and drives dependency management between Engineering and other Torc departments to enable successful completion of program objectives to deliver against the product roadmap.
- Ensures clear understanding of dependencies between and across organizations at Torc.
- Develops and drives mitigations and contingency plans for gaps, risks, and issues affecting program success.
- Identifies and supports development of standards and processes to enable successful completion of programs.
- Monitors progress of program assignments against program objectives, communicating issues, risks, and mitigation plans with appropriate Program Owner, and key stakeholders.
- Defines and reports on metrics to communicate status and issues including the creation of dashboards.
- Engages all appropriate stakeholders to ensure all departments are focused on the highest priority business needs.
- Works collaboratively and openly with program owner and program management team to ensure a strong partnership.
- Independent preparation and post-processing of meetings and workshops including organization, moderation, decision tracking, documentation of outcomes, as well as follow-up on actions.
What you’ll need to Succeed:
- Considered highly skilled and proficient in discipline; conducts complex, important work under minimal supervision and with wide latitude for independent judgment.
- Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through BS+ 6+ years of experience, MS+ 3+ years of experience, or PHD 1+ years of experience.
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
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. We’re always looking for those that are hungry, humble, and people smart and your unique experience may be a great fit for this role or others.