Technical product manager [h1.location_city]

Senior Technical Program Manager

With its A.I.-powered robotic technology platform, Symbotic is changing the way consumer goods move through the supply chain. Intelligent software orchestrates advanced robots in a high-density, end-to-end system reinventing warehouse automation for increased efficiency, speed and flexibility.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Technical Program Manager who has experience managing technically complex new product development programs. You will work with cross-functional leaders, including product owners, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, services, sales, and other stakeholders, to plan and execute projects. Your primary goal will be to ensure the teams are aligned, plans are executed, and issues / risks are managed effectively. You will be in a highly visible role and will interact with all departments and levels across the company, including executive management.

The Technical Program Management Office (PMO) oversees the planning, execution, and delivery of technical projects within the Symbotic engineering organization. The PMO establishes and implements the processes, standards, and methodologies for project management of hardware engineering projects and sustainment efforts required for delivered projects. The team ensures alignment with business objectives, manages key technical risks, and coordinates engineering resources to ensure successful project outcomes.

Project Leadership :

• Work with engineering, product management, sales, and finance to ensure project plans for each initiative are sound and optimized.
• Manage scope, schedule and budget for strategic projects and initiatives managed within the Project Management Office (PMO).
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings and regularly communicate initiative status to teams, senior management, and customers.
• Represent Symbotic to our customer(s) as the project lead, ensuring clear communication, effective negotiation, and resolution of any roadblocks to success.

Project Execution :

Facilitate the resolution of issues, risks, and challenges that surface through development lifecycle including NPD / hardware engineering process, production deployment and sustainment.

Manage cross-functional issue tracking to identify problems, track root-cause and corrective action plans; provide issue status across engineering teams and leadership.

Manage generation of critical project artifacts including Bill of Material (BoM), Tech Data Package (TDP) releases, Functional Requirements and Requirements Validation documentation.

Champion Process :

What you'll need :

Exemplify being the Team player. Conflict resolution and influencing skills are a key to success.

Open to pursuing multiple paths to get to the best solution and not being too proud of your own ideas to listen to others.

Experience negotiating resources in a matrix environment to work on multiple workstreams, setting clear priorities when juggling priority paths.

Respect and understanding of other disciplines; including Controls, Software, Design Engineering, Systems, Electronics, Quality and Manufacturing.

Proficient in JIRA, MS Project, MS Power Point, MS Excel, Word, and Visio.

Up to 10% travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver's license and the ability to drive and / or fly to client and other customer locations.

The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.