Senior Program Manager – Deployments

Cyngn; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental and Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Sabbatical after 5 years

Daily lunches

Job summary

Cyngn in Mountain View, CA seeks a Senior Program Manager to own deployment operations for autonomous vehicle deployments at scale. You will build systems, workflows, and cross-functional coordination across sales, customer success, support, and engineering to ensure a consistent deployment experience as the fleet grows.

You will maintain a feedback loop with Product, shaping features from field observations and customer needs.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of program or project management experience with ownership of scaling complex programs.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Experience automating workflows across sales, customer success, or support.
• Strong analytical skills to identify systemic issues in operations.
• Experience with customer-facing teams in technical product deployments.
• Familiarity with CRM and support platforms and project tools like Jira/Confluence.
• Excellent communication across sales, engineering, product, and executives.
• Autonomous systems, robotics, or industrial automation experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end deployment operations program from contract to live autonomous operation.
• Identify bottlenecks and build automated replacements across sales, CS, and support.
• Partner with sales and CS to translate commitments into executable deployment plans.
• Develop and maintain operational playbooks, tooling, and workflows for deployments.
• Establish SLA frameworks and escalation paths for growing deployment volume.
• Create feedback channels between customer-facing teams and Product for feature input.
• Define and track deployment KPIs to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with engineering/product to ensure tooling meets deployment needs.

Skills

Program management

Deployment operations

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical thinking

Customer-facing collaboration

CRM platforms

Autonomous systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Business

Tools

Jira

Confluence

HubSpot

Salesforce

Zendesk

Job description

Based in Mountain View, CA, Cyngn is a publicly-traded autonomous technology company. We deploy self-driving industrial vehicles - specifically autonomous tuggers - to factories, warehouses, and other facilities throughout North America. To build this emergent technology, we are looking for innovative, motivated, and experienced leaders to join us and move this field forward. If you like to build, tinker, and create with a team of trusted and passionate colleagues, then Cyngn is the place for you. Key reasons to join Cyngn:

We are small and big.

With under 100 employees, Cyngn operates with the energy of a startup. On the other hand, we’re publicly traded. This means our employees not only work in close-knit teams with mentorship from company leaders—they also get access to the liquidity of our publicly-traded equity.

We build today and deploy tomorrow.

Our autonomous vehicles aren’t just test concepts—they’re deployed to real clients right now. That means your work will have a tangible, visible impact.

We aren’t robots. We just develop them.

We’re a welcoming, diverse team of sharp thinkers and kind humans. Collaboration and trust drive our creative environment. At Cyngn, everyone’s perspective matters—and that’s what powers our innovation.

About the role

• We are seeking a Senior Program Manager to own the operational programs that power autonomous vehicle deployments at scale. This person will build and maintain the systems, workflows, and cross-functional coordination that enable our sales, customer success, support, and engineering teams to deliver a consistent, high-quality deployment experience as our fleet and customer base grow. A key part of the role is maintaining a close feedback loop with the Product team, ensuring that field observations and customer needs consistently shape what we build next. This role is ideal for someone with 6+ years of experience who has scaled complex operational programs in a technical environment and thrives at the intersection of process, technology, and customer outcomes.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end deployment operations program, designing and scaling the processes that take a customer from signed contract to live autonomous operation.
• Identify manual, brittle, or one-off processes across sales, customer success, and customer support that create bottlenecks at scale, and build automated replacements.
• Partner with sales and customer success to ensure pre-sale commitments translate into executable deployment plans with clear timelines, dependencies, and handoffs.
• Develop and maintain the operational playbooks, tooling, and workflows that field and support teams rely on across all active deployments.
• Establish SLA frameworks and escalation paths for customer support that remain effective as deployment volume grows.
• Build a structured feedback channel between customer-facing teams and Product, synthesizing field observations into clear input on feature gaps, operational friction, and emerging customer needs.
• Define and track deployment KPIs, including time-to-live, issue resolution rates, and deployment repeatability, and use them to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with engineering and product to ensure internal tooling investments reflect real deployment requirements and scale constraints.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in program or project management, deployment operations, or a related role with direct ownership of scaling complex programs.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience designing and automating workflows across sales, customer success, or support functions, ideally in a hardware or field deployment context.
• Strong analytical instincts with the ability to spot systemic problems in operational data and build durable solutions.
• Experience working closely with customer-facing teams in a technical product environment involving complex, multi-stakeholder deployments.
• Familiarity with CRM and support platforms (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce, Zendesk) and project tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent communication skills; able to operate across sales, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders without losing clarity.
• Comfortable operating without a playbook, knowing when to establish process and when to move without it.
• Experience in autonomous systems, robotics, or industrial automation strongly preferred.
• Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) through Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, and Guardian, with multiple plan tiers to choose from
• Ancillary benefits including accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plans (Voya)
• Company-paid basic life insurance, plus voluntary (supplemental) life for you and your dependents
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance plans, fully paid by Cyngn
• HSA and FSA (Health & Dependent Daycare)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company 401(k)
• Flexible PTO policy
• Sabbatical leave opportunity after 5 years with the company
• Daily lunches for in-office employees and fully-stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages

What You Can Expect (Cyngn's interview process)

• A real person will review your application
• We’ll kick off the process with a one-sided video interview where you’ll share a little more about yourself and we’ll get some basic questions out of the way
• A Recruiter touch point will go over the process in more detail and answer your questions
• A 45-minute interview with the hiring manager
• A full-loop interview process consisting of 3-4 additional conversations to gauge technical and soft skills and culture fit.
• A final onsite interview with the team.

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 judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Cyngn is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, promotion, discipline, and termination.

If you require accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please let us know and we will work with you to provide reasonable accommodation

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