Senior Project Manager

Aptiv; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Comprehensive health insurance

Disability coverage

RRSP matching

Flexible time-off

Job summary

Wind River seeks a Project Manager to own the full lifecycle for customer engagements across multiple verticals, including presales and project execution. You will coordinate with sales, technical leads, and customers to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while maintaining high customer satisfaction.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage risks, and drive continuous improvement. A background in embedded systems and DO-178C/FACE/ISO safety standards is highly valued, with up to 10% travel.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field.
• Proven experience managing engineering projects and teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Presales: qualify opportunities, define requirements, estimate costs/schedules, prepare proposals, demonstrate value to customers.
• Project Execution: coordinate with customers, build/manage teams, deliver on schedule, manage budgets and scope.
• Continuous Improvement: use metrics for forecasting and process improvements, share lessons learned.
• People Management / Soft Skills: lead teams, conduct performance reviews, resolve conflicts, manage multiple priorities.

Skills

Project management

Engineering management

Communication

Leadership

International teams

Team building

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent

Job description

ABOUT WIND RIVER Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

YOUR ROLE

As a Project Manager on our team, you’ll own the full project lifecycle for customer engagements, exercising a wide range of responsibilities to bid and deliver successfully.

Your work will span all the vertical markets listed above and will often allow you to work on next generation technical projects.

In your daily job you will work on the following main areas:

Presales

• Work with sales staff, business directors, technical leads, and other project managers to qualify opportunities
• Work with customer team to define requirements
• Perform architecture trade-off analysis and project feasibility
• Estimate costs and schedules
• Prepare written proposals and negotiate updates
• Demonstrate the value of Wind River to our customers to help win bids

Project Execution

• Act as the project focal, coordinating directly with Customers to ensure high customer satisfaction
• Build and manage teams to complete small to large projects in technically challenging areas, ensuring engagement and efficiency
• Deliver on schedule and within budget while meeting feature, quality, and contract requirements
• Enhance the depth of customer relationships to maximize business potential
• Proactively manage risks to minimize customer escalations, and manage escalations when they do arise

Continuous Improvement

• Use company-defined tools and processes in accordance with our CMMI Level 3 rating
• Provide feedback to the Process Management Leadership Council (PMLC) to improve efficiency of tools and processes
• Collect and use metrics (EVM, estimates vs actuals, profit/schedule variance) to for forecasting, estimation, tracking, and early problem detection
• Share Lessons Learned and implement strategies to prevent future repeats by you or your colleagues

People Management / Soft Skills

• Communicate confidently, clearly, and tailored to your audience
• Speak intelligently about Wind River products and technologies we work with
• Establish a trusted advisor role with our Customers
• Manage direct reports and matrixed team members (performance reviews, mentoring/coaching, growth opportunities)
• Resolve conflicts, remove roadblocks, negotiate compromises
• Manage competing priorities, delivering multiple presales/projects simultaneously

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

• US Citizenship mandatory
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Engineering project and personnel management skills as demonstrated by successfully planning and managing multiple simultaneous engineering projects; building and leading development teams; and directing the design and troubleshooting of complex software and hardware systems
• Direct customer interface experience with a track record of achieving high levels of customer satisfaction
• Demonstrated strength in planning and organization; verbal and written communications; effectiveness as a team leader; drive and perseverance in accomplishing goals; professional integrity; adaptability to new projects; resourcefulness; energy and motivation to initiate and complete tasks; and enthusiasm building expertise in the technology
• Experience working with and guiding international teams
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Additional course work in business management or a Project Management Institute certificate a plus
• 6+ years engineering experience or management expertise with embedded systems (software and/or hardware)
• Strong desire for candidate to have hands‑on experience doing Project Management with one or more software safety certification standards such as DO-178C, FACE, IEC61508, IEC62504, ISO26262, etc.
• Expect up to 10% domestic and international travel

BENEFITS

• Hybrid work model for workplace flexibility
• Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance
• Short and long‑term disability coverage
• RRSP matching for financial security
• Flexible time‑off policies for work‑life balance
• Employee assistance program for mental well‑being
• Learning benefits, including a LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars

To learn more, visit Wind Riveratwww.windriver.com .

Wind River is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Aptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.