Technical Project Manager

Description

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As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) on the TPM team, you’ll be accountable for the cross-functional planning and predictable execution of Humanoid’s aggressively-paced robot development programs and supporting projects. Engineering development and leadership at Humanoid is a tightly coordinated effort among multiple contributing offices including Vancouver, Boston, and London. This role is physically located in Vancouver but performs program management spanning all sites. Periodic travel to those other sites is expected. This role is a unique opportunity to have a big impact.

• Empathize with, partner with, negotiate with, and manage stakeholders. Use tactful and effective approaches to achieve alignments and secure commitments
• Track and motivate program and project progress end-to-end, coordinating many teams and sites to predictably execute the plan
• Urgently identify, prioritize, and clear blockers
• Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics
• Proactively anticipate risks, put handling plans in place, and manage them actively
• Establish efficient, effective, clear, timely program communication optimised for the very real challenges of collaboration across distances, cultures, and timezones. Your communication is tailored to the audience.
• Comprehensively plan the program, accountable for scope, schedule, cost, and process. Although the emphasis of your program scope is delivery of a robot hardware platform, your program is HIGHLY cross-functional, incorporating: Systems, Safety, Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Software, AI/ML, DFX, Regulatory, Integration, Test, Supply Chain, Design, Product, Marketing, Logistics, and more.
• Using systems thinking, perspective, and technical judgment: bring clarity, prioritization, and guidance to teams

Requirements

• Calm and articulate demeanor under pressure, including with executive audiences
• Ability to rapidly grasp and distill complex technical concepts
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field relevant to robotics
• Seriously excellent synch and asynch communication skills
• A track record creating structure and paths through ambiguity
• Organized, self-directed, able to juggle many complex threads
• Engineering industry experience developing scalably-manufacturable hardware solutions using scalable engineering processes
• Natural team leadership skills
• A problem solver
• Based on situational judgment, manage at various levels between strategic and detailed
• Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives
• 5+ years of relevant post-graduate experience leading hardware-heavy new product introduction, including explicitly serving as project or program manager
• A toolkit of multiple project management methodologies

Benefits

In a world where artificial intelligence opens up new horizons, our faith in its potential unveils a new outlook where, together, humans and machines build a new future filled with knowledge, inspiration, and incredible discoveries. The development of a functional humanoid robot underpins an era of abundance and well-being where poverty will disappear, and people will be able to choose what they want to do. We believe that providing a universal basic income will eventually be a true evolution of our civilization.

• Office perks: free lunches
• Paid vacation with adjustments based on your location to comply with local labor laws
• Travel opportunities to our London and Boston offices
• Competitive salary plus participation in our Stock Option Plan

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance