Autonomous Fleet Operations Project Manager

Aquent; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision & Dental benefits

Paid sick leave

Retirement plan with match

Free online training

Job summary

Aquent is seeking a Project Manager to support a pioneering autonomous vehicle program in our San Mateo office. You will coordinate operations, document processes, and drive issue resolution across engineering, operations, and leadership to enable scalable, reliable services.

The role emphasizes developing playbooks, dashboards, and standard workflows; you will lead triage meetings, track milestones, risks, and deliverables, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate challenges into

Qualifications

• Experience in project or program management in a technical/operational environment.
• Strong cross-functional communication across engineering, operations, and leadership.
• Experience documenting and improving operational processes, workflows, SOPs, or playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain operational process documentation (playbooks, workflows, checklists) and keep them accurate and accessible.
• Manage end-to-end operational issue resolution, triaging tickets, prioritizing, root-cause analysis, coordinating solutions, closing issues.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to investigate challenges, implement solutions, and embed improvements into workflows.
• Develop and maintain reporting and dashboards to provide visibility into issue resolution, trends, and program health.
• Support planning and execution of initiatives to scale fleet operations, tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.
• Facilitate recurring issue triage meetings, program reviews, and stakeholder discussions with clear action items.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional communication

Organizational skills

Issue resolution

Process improvement

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Aquent is seeking a Project Manager to support a pioneering autonomous vehicle program in our San Mateo office. You will coordinate operations, document processes, and drive issue resolution across engineering, operations, and leadership to enable scalable, reliable services.

The role emphasizes developing playbooks, dashboards, and standard workflows; you will lead triage meetings, track milestones, risks, and deliverables, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate challenges into