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# Lead Technical Program Manager

- **Company:** WAABI PARTNERS
- **Location:** San Francisco, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $235,000.0 - $270,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Asana, JIRA, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/lead-technical-program-manager-robotaxi-waabi-10381194

## About the Role

* 10+ years of technical program management experience, with a track record leading complex, cross-functional technical programs from ambiguity to delivery.
 * Direct experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another safety-critical, deeply cross-functional environment spanning hardware, software, and safety.
 * Demonstrated ability to build program structure from scratch - dependency maps, risk registers, executive reporting, milestone tracking - in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.
 * Strong technical fluency across hardware, software, and autonomy/ML domains - able to ask the right questions and spot a false dependency without being a domain expert in any one area.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable writing a crisp one-pager for an executive audience and facilitating a working-level technical review in the same week.
 * Proven cross-functional leadership without formal authority - you drive alignment and hold teams accountable through influence, not org-chart position.
 * Hands-on experience with program tracking tools such as Jira, Asana, or other Project Management.
 * BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Bonus/Nice to Have:

 * Proven history executing driverless commercial rollouts, operational domain expansions, or initial market deployments for robotic transport platforms.
 * Working knowledge of system safety assurance, ODD boundaries, and integrating safety sign-off gates into target deployment schedules.
 * Track record establishing or scaling continuous fleet management, remote command facilities, or real-time operations centers.
 * Prior collaboration with policy, legal, and public affairs stakeholders to secure local operating authorizations and permits.
 * Hands-on application of modern AI solutions to streamline operational tracking, eliminate manual administrative friction, and speed up critical decisions.

## Description

* Define and maintain the integrated robotaxi program plan - key milestones, cross-team dependencies, and critical path - spanning autonomy, vehicle hardware, safety/V&V, fleet operations, and commercial launch readiness.
 * Own program-level risk management. Surface issues early, bring data-backed options rather than just status updates, and ensure every dependency has a clear owner and ETA.
 * Drive launch and market-readiness planning across vehicle readiness, ODD (operational design domain) coverage, safety validation sign-off, site and facility readiness, and regulatory or permitting requirements for new markets and service areas.
 * Partner with Autonomy, Safety, Commercial, and Operations to translate top-down strategy into executable roadmaps, and hold teams accountable to the plan.
 * Build and run executive reporting - concise, credible updates on program status, risk, and path-to-green for leadership.
 * Define and track the KPIs that measure readiness for driverless operation, such as ODD coverage, disengagement rates, system readiness, and rider experience metrics.
 * Establish scalable processes and tooling for robotaxi program tracking, ensuring a single source of truth as the program and fleet scale.
 * Represent the robotaxi program in cross-company planning, ensuring it's properly sequenced against Waabi's trucking roadmap and shared platform investments.