Lead Technical Program Manager, Platform Integration

Waabi; Toronto; On-site; CAD 240,540 - 341,820; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness benefits

Unlimited Vacation

Flexible hours

Job summary

Waabi seeks a Lead Technical Program Manager – Platform Integration to orchestrate program execution across hardware, software, autonomy, and safety. You will align cross‑functional teams with different cadences, map critical paths, and ensure risks are visible and owned to keep velocity and on‑time delivery.

You will define integrated platform plans, manage dependencies, and provide executive‑level reporting with Path to Green options. Strong communication and pragmatism are essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of technical program management experience across hardware, software and systems integration.
• Experience coordinating teams with different cadences (robotics, autonomy, safety).
• Strong ability to build program structure from scratch: dependency maps, risk registries, executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain integrated platform program plans with milestones and dependencies.
• Capture stakeholder inputs and enforce early integration before design commitments lock.
• Build and own cross‑team dependency maps with owners and ETAs.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Executive communication

Tools

Jira

Asana

Microsoft Project

Job description

The Lead Technical Program Manager – Platform Integration owns program-level execution across Waabi's platform programs, focusing on cross-functional integration between hardware development, onboard software, embedded systems, autonomy, safety, and operations. The role serves as the connective tissue between teams operating on fundamentally different cadences: embedded software with kanban-based delivery, autonomy research with probabilistic timelines, and safety validation with methodical gate-based requirements. Responsibilities include identifying where cadences collide, mapping critical paths, and ensuring risks are visible and owned to maintain velocity and deliver on time.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain integrated platform program plans covering key milestones, cross-team dependencies, and ensure on-time delivery.
• Ensure all stakeholder inputs are captured and integrated into program plans before design commitments lock in.
• Build and enforce dependency maps across Hardware, Software, Systems and Safety, and Ops, identify the critical path, and ensure every dependency has an owner and an ETA.
• Own reporting into executive forums. Surface risks early with data‑backed Path to Green options, not just status updates.
• Track system VnV and overall test campaigns, ensuring test coverage, sign‑off readiness, and milestone alignment across teams.
• Build cross‑functional roadmaps that give hardware, software, and autonomy a shared line of sight on interdependencies and sequencing.
• Champion tools to capture the single source of truth for program work, ensuring consistency across programs.
• Build scalable tracking mechanisms and systematic processes that work at fleet scale.

Key Attributes

Technical breadth. Ask the right questions, spot unrealistic assumptions in a plan, and know when a dependency is a real blocker versus a process gap. You can engage with engineers across hardware, embedded software, autonomy, and safety without needing to be a domain expert in any one area.

Self‑starter who builds processes from scratch. Build processes and iterate based on what actually works and impose structure without creating overhead.

Cross‑functional influencer. Work on highly cross‑functional programs spanning embedded software, onboard software, hardware, autonomy, safety, and operations.

Risk‑first mindset. Surface problems early, elevate without hesitation, and always arrive with options. You can dive deep and bring clarity to status updates and a Path to Green.

Comfort with ambiguity. Thrive in bringing clarity and structure to ambiguity and convert ambitious goals into programs with hard success criteria, DRIs, and trackable milestones.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of technical program management experience, with a strong focus on cross‑functional hardware, software and systems integration programs.
• Demonstrated experience working across teams with meaningfully different development cadences (e.g., robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, or defense systems).
• Proven ability to build cross‑functional program structure from scratch: dependency maps, risk registries, executive reporting, and milestone tracking.
• Strong written and verbal communication. Ability to write a crisp one‑pager for an executive audience and facilitate a working‑level dependency review with engineers in the same week.
• Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or advanced driver‑assist systems (ADAS).
• Hands‑on experience with program tracking tools like Jira, Asana and Microsoft Project.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve program visibility, reduce manual overhead, or accelerate decision‑making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with embedded systems and software development and the constraints that come with it.
• Familiarity with ML development workflows and an understanding of how model iteration cadences interact with hardware and software delivery timelines. Experience working alongside ML or AI research teams in a program capacity is a plus.
• Experience establishing or scaling a triage process for field issues across engineering teams.
• Background in systems engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Salary and Benefits

The US yearly salary range for this role is: $171,000 - $243,000 USD, in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi (US) Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards.
• Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full‑time employees only).
• Unlimited Vacation.
• Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
• Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
• Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on‑site, off‑site & virtually.
• As we grow, this list continues to evolve!

EEO Statement

Waabi is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and accessible workplace for all our employees. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, caregiver status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. We make workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgement. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.