Sr. Technical Program Manager - OTA

Rivian Automotive

About Us

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Role Summary

The Over the Air Update team enables delivery of new software to the engineering, manufacturing, and customer fleets and therefore is central to Rivian Volkswagen Technologies’ ability to deliver a continuously improving, world class experience to our customers. As a technical program manager within this team you will be responsible for working cross functionally with stakeholders throughout the organization, as well as with OEM partners, to balance priorities and ensure the system and the team remains efficient and effective.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the performance and quality of Rivian’s OTA service through strong program leadership
  • Engage developers and leaders around the software organization to anticipate upcoming changes that require OTA support, burn down existing bugs, and drive feature development forward.
  • Work closely with OTA operations team members to identify and understand common sources of failure, maintain the issue backlog, and facilitate communication between engineering and service
  • Work closely with OTA development engineers to create and drive execution plans for cross functional OTA projects
  • Work closely with OTA test engineers to ensure appropriate regression testing is executed for the different software releases.
  • Design and maintain agile processes for tracking and executing OTA projects across a variety of domains and contexts

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in an engineering or scientific discipline related with 4+ years relevant experience
  • 2+ years of Technical or Engineering Program Management experience.
  • Strong understanding of Atlassian project management tools, bonus points if you’ve worked with the APIs directly
  • Experience with the entire Software Development Lifecycle from user story creation to validation.
  • Experience working with complex systems in either a technical or programs capacity
  • Excellent communication, organizational, and collaboration skills.
  • Expert with agile, waterfall, or kanban development processes

Pay Disclosure

Salary Range/Hourly Rate for California Based Applicants: $132,100 - $165,100 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).

Benefits Summary: Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Full Time Employee coverage is effective on the first day of employment. Part-Time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment.

Company Statements

Equal Opportunity

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.

Candidate Data Privacy

Rivian and VW Group Technologies (“Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies”) may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies affiliates; and (iii) Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies’ service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please see our Candidate Data Privacy Notice (English) and Candidate Data Privacy Notice (Serbian) for more information.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.

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