Senior, Technical Product Manager - ML Operations Tools and Services

Meet the team: 

We are a team of customer centric, data driven, and flexible Technical Product Managers (TPM). Our mission is to accelerate technological development, increase the quality of our internal products and services, and optimize resource efficiency. To accomplish this, we apply our leadership, product, and project management skills to bring people together across the company to accomplish Torc’s mission. We are looking for a TPM to own the end-to-end Machine Learning operations product area which includes: data collection, data set creation and management; model development, training, and deployment; and software release, and model performance monitoring. 

What you will do: 

• As a Sr. Technical Product Manager, your focus is to align leadership to a single vision and strategy for Torc’s Machine Learning Operations tools and services. 
• Translate that single vision and strategy into high-level product milestones and detailed execution timelines and deliverables.
• Work with all leaders across the Technology Organization to align with our technical roadmap, manage resource allocation, and execution plans.
• Use your technical and project management expertise to identify and mitigate risks and unblock project execution by proactively managing cross-functional dependencies.
• Drive the development of solutions by clearly articulating the problem space and empowering engineering to design and implement innovative solutions.
• Document our internal customer’s user journeys and engage in recurrent discovery activities to identify pain points, and impediments in their workflows.
• Be the voice of your internal customers and represent their needs, wants, and pain-points across Torc.
• Drive planning and prioritization activities during the product life cycle, to ensure teams are always working on the highest priorities and constantly delivering impactful outcomes. 

What You Will Need to Succeed 

• BS+ 5 years of experience OR MS+ 3 years of experience in an engineering discipline like computer science, artificial intelligence, robotics, mechanical engineering etc.
• Experience in at least one of the following fields:   
  • Leading a robotics machine learning team through agile development
  • Product Owner of a robotics development team
  • Experience with data driven machine learning pipelining Knowledge of machine learning deployment on NVIDIA hardware
  • Verification of ROS components in a robotics or autonomous driving context
• Strong experience in project management; practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and ability to apply them where best suited.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely with engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust communication based on audience.
• Independence and confidence, the ability to understand technical needs of your customers and the ability to say no. 

Bonus Points!

• Training in Product and/or Program Management
• Experience in the automotive or heavy-vehicle industry
• Experience with Jira and Confluence 

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