Senior Validation Fleet TPM — Asset Planning & Readiness

Rivian; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Equity awards

401(k) Plan

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off

Job summary

Rivian is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Validation Fleet to own the program that keeps validation assets ready, correctly configured, roadworthy, and visible for timely testing. You will coordinate engineering changes with fleet impact, and advise on asset allocation based on vehicle maturity and test intent.

You will partner with V&V leads and stakeholders to prioritize fleet actions, ensure clear information flow, and drive open actions to resolution across programs.

Qualifications

• Typically 6+ years in technical program management, fleet operations, vehicle testing, validation support, or prototype operations.
• Proven ability to run a cross-functional program end to end, driving decisions and accountability without direct authority.
• Strong working knowledge of validation fleet operations, usage planning, transport coordination, and asset readiness management.
• Familiarity with vehicle maturity, content differences, and engineering change processes, with the ability to translate design change into fleet and validation impact.
• Ability to communicate change and risk clearly across design engineers, validation leads, and senior leadership.
• Strong data hygiene and reporting discipline in Jira, dashboards, and fleet tools, while managing multiple priorities independently

Responsibilities

• Own validation fleet allocation and shared asset planning across active test fleet — arbitrating competing demand and escalating tradeoffs with a recommendation.
• Own the cascade of design and content change into fleet impact: affected VINs, configuration consequences, readiness impact, and at-risk validation.
• Surface fleet-affecting changes to validation teams with enough lead time to re-plan rather than react.
• Serve as primary liaison to the Test & Development fleet coordinator, balancing validation usage against fleet upkeep, movement, and workshop needs.
• Work with Validation TPMs to source donor assets, brokering trades and reallocations across programs when demand exceeds supply.
• Partner with V&V leads to recommend fleet actions, readiness sequencing, and asset prioritization.
• Integrate the fleet tracking system with the validation asset plans and drive open fleet actions to resolution.
• Improve fleet processes, clarify responsibilities, and help teams work through ambiguity during compressed validation timelines.

Skills

Technical program management

Fleet operations

Vehicle testing

Validation support

Prototype operations

Cross-functional leadership

Data reporting

Jira

Dashboards

Fleet tools

Tools

Jira

Dashboards

Fleet tools

Job description

Rivian is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Validation Fleet to own the program that keeps validation assets ready, correctly configured, roadworthy, and visible for timely testing. You will coordinate engineering changes with fleet impact, and advise on asset allocation based on vehicle maturity and test intent.

You will partner with V&V leads and stakeholders to prioritize fleet actions, ensure clear information flow, and drive open actions to resolution across programs.