Your opportunity to drive success:

Are you a trained software engineer who over the course of your career realized your talents included managing projects and people? Do you have a passion for advanced technology and problem-solving and love to get to the bottom of tough problems and orient teams to solve them? Do you want to make a difference in a company that is changing mobility?

May Mobility is looking for highly motivated, activated, and energetic technical project managers who can lead teams to solve some of the hardest problems in autonomous driving. Work will include leading teams to deeply analyze and understand problems through data, clarifying fuzzy requirements and prioritizing competing technical tasks, assessing and aggressively mitigating risks, and detail-oriented status tracking. Technical project managers at May coordinate frequently and effectively across all company functions including autonomy, vehicle engineering, software, product, finance, and operations.

This opportunity is a hybrid role, where office work is located at May Mobility HQ in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Occasional travel may be required to operational sites.

Responsibilities

• Help lead autonomy software engineering program management focusing on autonomy features to build tools and processes to identify risks and coordinate on-time and high-quality product delivery
• Work cross-functionally with autonomy, engineering, product, customer operations, finance, and strategy teams to scope, plan and track the project and program management processes in the software development space. Detailed tracking and follow-up is a must.
• Consolidate input from autonomy, engineering, safety, legal, and business teams to produce and distribute project work plans; Requests for Procurement, Statements of Work, Program Plans, and Gantt charts. Must have the ability to lead the software team with ownership of duties, along with follow-up and corrections as needed
• Understand technical implementation at the software architectural level and propose alternatives when necessary, ask questions that clarify priorities, and look for process efficiencies
• Be the scrum master for one or more focus areas within autonomy.
• Proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results
• Build and maintain relationships with May Mobility’s partners, understand their needs, and drive alignment with May Mobility’s product vision within autonomy
• Coordinate and drive workshops with partners; build agenda, track progress, and be responsible for outstanding items and next steps. Be a reliable problem solver with critical and creative thinking skills that drive the business forward
• Provide regular status updates on autonomy software projects and program progress and risks
• Coordinate and communicate effectively between development and production teams

Required Qualifications:

• A high level of initiative and activation proven by examples. Must be able to enthusiastically take on challenges, including those peripheral to core responsibilities when needed for project and company success.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Engineering, Computer Science or highly technical degree preferred, or equivalent work experience
• A minimum of 2+ years of prior experience as a software, data, robotics engineer or other highly technical AI or robotics-driven areas
• A minimum of 7+ years of technical project management experience, project planning, status updating, and risk management. Ideally, this experience is at least partially in fast pace research and development software-based projects.
• Ability to clarify and document fuzzy requirements and challenges such that a software team can efficiently and effectively solve problems.
• An ability to clearly and concisely communicate technical concepts including root cause analysis, technical challenges, and their solutions, and results backed by data.
• An ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people and teams.
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycles, data infrastructure/pipeline, AI product development, integration processes, and test/validation complexity, emphasizing SDLC
• Past experience in autonomy systems ideal
• Understanding of startup's fast cycle and vision to balance the long-term goals

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working-level knowledge of the autonomous vehicle industry
• 10+ years of Project / Program management experience
• Start-up experience