Technical Product Manager II - Data Systems

Meet the Team:

This team is looking for someone with the combined technical and management experience to create the next generation of on-road autonomous driving technology, meeting customer needs as effectively and efficiently as possible. Works closely with cross-functional teams to define actionable work plans to achieve product milestones, integrate plans with organizational leaders, obtain feedback from stakeholders, and maintain a backlog of work that reflects end-user requirements and company objectives. Owns the product development plan across relevant engineering teams, represents the plan to executive management, and serves as a subject matter expert.

What you'll do:

• Accountable for ensuring consistent delivery of critical projects that meet the company's objectives, coordinating efforts and resources, identifying, and removing organizational barriers to execution as the internal representative of the customer to the engineering organization.
• Responsible for analyzing and communicating product initiatives to development teams, leadership, and other stakeholders. Break down the product initiatives into department-level quarterly plans.
• Analyze top-level product requirements to develop associated department-level plans for components that advance the virtual driver product towards commercial launch.
• Create strong working relationships and maintain effective communication across all product development teams, informing others of new features and release timelines, and soliciting frequent feedback from stakeholders for action.
• Build trust and strong working relationships with the technical subject matter experts and principal engineers that steward the technical roadmap.
• Consult with relevant technical experts and synthesize their input with your own technical and industry knowledge to create and define a balanced product development backlog which drives teams towards the most cost-effective path to commercial launch.
• Cohesively and succinctly present quarterly departmental plans based on cross-functional dependencies for evaluation and approval by engineering leadership at the executive level.
  
• Represent product development plans, showcase recent development efforts in regular reviews, and synthesize changes in urgency to resolve product issues within the applicable department.
  
• Partner with engineering leadership to define timelines/milestones, identify/mitigate risks, recommend resource allocation, track progress, resolve dependencies, and resolve bottlenecks.
  
• Set clear, actionable development team workloads that deliver epic acceptance criteria that cleanly support initiative-level acceptance criteria, delegate tasks and set deadlines.
  
• Monitor epic status and report metrics for management recognition. Clarify metrics and measurable goals to identify work, clarify urgency and importance, follow-up and verify solutions/results, measure success, review for continuous improvement and effective time management.
  
• Provide candid and constructive feedback to development team members that maximizes team goals and individual employee potential. Report any issues of concern to managers.
  
• Create a motivating and inspiring development team environment with an open communication culture. Act proactively to ensure smooth development team operations and effective collaboration.
  
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement. Identify process gaps and/or new areas of focus for continuously improving engineering planning, communication, and execution.

What you’ll need to Succeed:

• Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through:
  • BS+ 4+ years of experience OR MS+ 3+ years of experience
• Considered highly skilled and proficient in discipline; conducts complex, important work under minimal supervision and with wide latitude for independent judgment. 
• We are looking for a TPM with the experience in one of the following fields: 
  • Data Systems
    • Experience with different database architectures, including but not limited to relational and NoSQL databases, data warehousing and clustered, distributed data stores.
    • Experience with Python libraries for applied data science (Pandas, Plotly, Matplotlib, Dask, TensorFlow).
    • Experience with AWS serverless architectures (Lambda, Batch, ECS Fargate, Glue, Athena).
    • Experience with workflow patterns using directed acyclic graphs (Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions).
    • Familiarity with machine learning operations and the data and artifacts that they produce.

Bonus Points!

• Experience with different mapping formats, strategies, and developing pipelines to deploy maps to different environments.

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