Staff Program Manager - Development Ecosystem

Staff Program Manager - Development Ecosystem

Palo Alto, CA Product & Technology - ADADAS Employee Hybrid Apply for this job

Woven by Toyota, we are enabling Toyotas once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation - expanding what mobility means and how it serves society.

Our work centers on four pillars: ADADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute and together, we are working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

TEAM

The ADADAS Project Management Teams goal is to enable the successful delivery of technology from the engineering organization to achieve business goals. The Project Management function in Woven By Toyotas ADADAS organization is a partner to the Engineering and Product functions and owns the technical execution of the ADADAS portfolio, maintaining the organizations plan of record and ensuring execution velocity and agility of a highly cross-functional engineering team distributed across multiple locations.

Our team members come from a mix of Autonomy, off-board ecosystem, hardware, and vehicle backgrounds, but we all share a common drive to enable the delivery of complex and safe autonomous engineering products to the world. We are problem solvers who make things happen by setting and communicating clear goals and supporting engineering teams to deliver through the technical and organizational complexity.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Staff Project Manager for this position. The ideal candidate will be comfortable navigating ambiguity, engaging with leadership, and collaborating with teams across WbyT and external stakeholders to steer projects toward successful delivery.

You should be highly motivated by the challenge of bringing complex technology projects to market and adept at solving interdisciplinary problems with a strong focus on execution. In this role, you will work with a talented group of cross-functional stakeholders across organizations to develop execution plans that facilitate the launch of products and features.

This role requires deep operational expertise in the development ecosystem in support of the autonomous driving stack and product, paired with a strong cross-functional communication and a data-driven approach to ensure continuous improvements on engineering velocity, developing the autonomy stack while optimizing performance, cost, and safety. Additionally, a genuine interest in connecting the on-board software running on vehicles with the off-board stack, such as simulation data and ML infrastructure.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Own and drive complex cross-functional Platform projects across simulation validation, CICD, ML infrastructure, and visualization tools to provide a robust end-to-end development ecosystem, improve autonomy development efficiency, and shorten time-to-validation.

Define project scope, milestones, and success metrics for platform capabilities explicitly tying them to developer productivity, iteration speed, test throughput, and safety validation timelines and aligning outcomes with the broader autonomy roadmap.

Create and maintain an integrated project plan of record, sprint, quarter, and year that unifies platform team roadmaps into a single execution and risk-management view with clear critical paths to autonomy feature readiness and validation gates.

Lead cross-functional planning and high-velocity execution across Simulation Validation Tools and Infrastructure teams, proactively resolving dependencies and blockers that slow builds, tests, or validation, and driving timely evidence-based decisions.

Drive transparency and accountability in the development ecosystem by clarifying ownership, interfaces, deliverables, and integration checkpoints and by establishing governance cadences and reporting that highlight autonomy development efficiency, test capacity, and validation risk.

Identify and resolve systemic issues in the development workflow, such as flaky tests, bottlenecked simulation capacity, long triage loops, and continuously evolve Technical Project Management practices for platform work, including tooling processes and mentoring other TPMs focused on autonomy efficiency and validation outcomes.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

10 years of program/project management experience within a software, automotive, aerospace, robotics, or mobility-related industry.

Knowledge of the ADADAS development ecosystem for in-vehicle and off-vehicle stack.

Proven track record of leading large projects to successful delivery spanning cross-functional engineering organizations of 100 stakeholders.

Experience driving technical projects in ambiguity with only high-level direction across distributed teams and diverse business cultures.

Experience with establishing and evolving projects operations and decision-making structures, adapting to team culture and operating constraints.

NICE TO HAVES

Experience in Autonomous Vehicle projects, Automotive, or OEM Tier-1 environments.

Experience in the development of autonomy features for L2-L4 systems.

Proficiency in Business-level Japanese, PMPPMI, or other Project Management certifications are welcome.

The base pay for this position ranges from $161,000 - $264,500 per year. Your base salary is one part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short-term and long-term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. The total compensation offered to an employee will be dependent upon the individuals skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.

WHAT WE OFFER

We are committed to creating a modern work environment that supports our employees and their loved ones. We offer many options of the best programs to allow you to do your most meaningful work and to help you shape the future of mobility.

• Excellent health, wellness, dental, and vision coverage • A rewarding 401k program • Flexible vacation policy • Family planning and care benefits

Our Commitment

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.

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