Fox Robotics - Austin, TX
posted 2 days ago
About the position
Fox Robotics is at the bleeding edge of warehouse automation, with a focus on autonomous forklifts. As the leader in this space, Fox has clear product market fit and is scaling fast, with plans to rapidly grow from 100 employees to nearly ~160+ this year alone. With this growth, employees have a once-in-a-career opportunity to learn, all while working as part of a mission-driven team focused on making robots that work. This Senior Technical Program Manager will interface with forklift OEMs for all aspects of program and project management in integration of Fox autonomy package of controllers, sensors, cameras and LIDARs. You'll develop the overall Program Plan with clear milestones, deliverables, and check points with defined go/no-go success criteria. Work closely with all affected department leaders and employees as required to ensure aligned, cross-functional delivery of outcomes to challenging timing and cost targets. Coordinate product requirements and validation plans adequately cover regulatory and compliance needs.
Responsibilities
- Monitor New Program design and release process delivers BOM readiness to support prototype and production level parts meet program timing.
- Work with suppliers to lead development and release of components related to an active autonomous system while meeting cost, weight, timing, and performance targets.
- Work with Advanced Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Manufacturing Teams to ensure supplier and launch readiness through successful prototype builds, lessons learned, control plans and work instructions.
- Work with external Vehicle OEM's partners and internal Product Management, Commercial, and Engineering teams to develop program proposals, resource and budget estimates.
- Assist vehicle team technical leads in maintaining their Jira plan with regard to mechanical, electrical, firmware and systems team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in product and program management of highly complex product.
- Hands on experience using Jira, confluence, smartsheets, PLM and ERP tools.
- Understanding of product development lifecycle with stage gate approach.
- Handled multi million dollar projects, with 100+ cross functional team members including HW and SW.
- Understanding of V Cycle of product development.
- Understanding of execution methodologies (waterfall, agile, etc) and the ability to tailor them based on program needs.
Nice-to-haves
- Understanding of Robotics and Warehouse automation
- Knowledge of sensor, cameras and LIDARs
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Benefits
- A once in a career opportunity to build, alongside colleagues who deeply care (plus robots that aren't bad, either!)
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Generous healthcare options
- 401k match
- Unlimited PTO
- Other perks that connect us, including lunch on Fridays, team building activities, and more!
