Sr Staff Technical Program Manager – IVI Platform

Keen Technology Solutions LLC; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Keen Technology Solutions LLC in Palo Alto (Hybrid) seeks a Sr Staff Technical Program Manager for the IVI Platform under a long-term contract. You’ll provide software development process and project management for the RTD team within the IVI organization, focusing on the Platform aspects of the IVI stack.

You will coordinate with software and systems engineers, testers, and product managers, identify risks, and drive milestones with internal teams and external vendors to deliver complex vehicle

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
• 15+ years of experience in project, program or product management in software.
• 10+ years of experience in software development or testing.

Responsibilities

• Provide software development process and project management for the RTD team (Real Time Domain) within the IVI Team (In-Vehicle-Infotainment Team), focusing on the Platform aspect of the development.
• Identify potential risks in development and assess program impact, work with Engineering managers to mitigate risk.
• Cross-functional and cross-team coordination and communication to help deliver committed project outcomes.
• Work closely with software engineers, system engineers, testing engineers, and product managers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage project schedules, identify blockers, potential issues and incongruencies, and clearly communicate them to stakeholders.
• Lead external vendors on timelines and deliverables and take responsibility for milestone coordination between internal and external releases.
• Drive several technical projects across vehicle software domains, helping set priorities for engineering.

Skills

Software project management

Cross-functional coordination

Education

BS. in Electrical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

Sr Staff Technical Program Manager – IVI Platform

Palo Alto, CA-Hybrid

Long Term Contract

What you’ll do…

• Provide software development process and project management for the RTD team (Real Time Domain) within the IVI Team (In-Vehicle-Infotainment Team), focusing on the Platform aspect of the development
• The main topics to cover will be UWB, Bluetooth, NFC, BLE, Power Modding, FuSa items, Ethernet Switch and Cyber Security
• Identify potential risks in development and assess program impact, work with Engineering managers to mitigate risk
• Cross-functional and cross-team coordination and communication to help deliver committed project outcomes.
• Work closely with software engineers, system engineers, testing engineers, and product managers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage project schedules, identify blockers, potential issues and incongruencies, and clearly communicate them to stakeholders.
• Lead external vendors on timelines and deliverables and take responsibility for milestone coordination between internal and external releases.
• Drive several technical projects across vehicle software domains, helping set priorities for engineering.

You’ll have…

• BS. in Electrical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
• 15+ years of experience in project, program or product management in software.
• 10+ years of experience in software development or testing