Aurora's Technical Program Managers (TPM) move fluidly from the big picture to details to deliver complex and strategic cross-functional projects. You are a bridge and a connector for the company; you keep vectors aligned and icebergs avoided. As a TPM, you develop an intuitive feel for what matters and what does not. You work with leadership to establish roadmaps and are structured and decisive in aligning the team around the highest priorities. Your program schedules and execution plans guide the activities of the development teams; as such, you understand how to most efficiently leverage their individual expertise and make difficult tradeoffs between multiple programs and objectives. You work with both internal customers and external business partners to align roadmaps and deliver tightly-coordinated programs. This collaboration includes managing project schedules, identifying risks, and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your projects will span offices and time zones, and it's your job to keep the team coordinated on the project's progress and deadlines.
Responsibilities:
- Manage complex projects at a large scale, spanning functional teams and cross-functional initiatives.
- Interface with engineers and engineering managers to estimate work efforts, define milestones and manage resources.
- Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks and communicate status to upper management and project stakeholders, engage and energize the project teams to achieve aggressive goals.
- Remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, drive results proactively.
- Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective.
- Support technical and strategic planning, leading conversations with key stakeholders to develop concepts for initiatives, and developing those into detailed program / project plans (including roadmaps, funding planning, resource planning and hiring goals).