Technical Program Manager, Hardware

Who we are:

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light & medium-duty trucks. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 customers including Kroger, Walmart, Tyson Foods, Loblaw, Pitney Bowes, Georgia-Pacific, and KBX; enabling them to optimize their hub-and-spoke supply chain operations, enhance service levels and product flow across multiple locations while reducing labor costs and meeting an unprecedented expectation for faster deliveries.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with a strong hardware build background to join our dynamic autonomous trucking startup. In this role, you will coordinate and collaborate with our engineering teams to execute complex hardware projects and manage the program towards manufacturing at scale. Leveraging your significant collaboration skills and experience in a startup environment, you will implement best practices and work with subject matter experts to drive our hardware development from concept to mass production. Additionally, you will manage our external partnerships in trucking, validation, and manufacturing to ensure seamless integration and delivery.

This role requires working onsite five days a week from our Mountain View headquarters.

What You Will Do:

• Work with engineers to prioritize technical roadmaps for key hardware features, track work, and deliver functionality.
• Set priorities and coordinate between internal engineering teams and stakeholders to support development from concept through manufacturing.
• Manage the team’s scope, schedule, and dependencies.
• Coordinate release content and efforts with multiple program managers and engineering leads who own individual components.
• Manage external partnerships in trucking, validation, and manufacturing to ensure successful integration and delivery of hardware components.
• Understand the technical implementation plan and manage priorities. Communicate with engineering leadership to direct the effort and resources in an agile manner.
• Coordinate and execute frequent test events involving various levels of hardware, from prototypes to full hardware-in-the-loop demonstrations at test sites.
• Maintain a strong technical understanding of our autonomous vehicle platforms, hardware lifecycle, safety clearance process, and test operations.

What We’re Looking For:

• BS or MS degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of industry experience with technical subjects and emerging technologies.
• Experience in the automotive industry with bonus points for Hardware projects on autonomous vehicles.
• Experience in a startup environment, managing hardware projects towards manufacturing at scale.
• Expertise in new product introduction and managing hardware development teams.
• Previous experience as a hardware engineer, systems engineer, or similar role.
• Expertise in project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Confluence, and JIRA.
• Proficiency in common workplace software: Word, spreadsheet, presentation software, etc.
• Uncanny resilience to adapt to fluid targets and approach challenges with a 'solutions-first' and abundance mindset.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, able to handle multiple deadlines, projects, and stakeholders concurrently.
• Strong experience managing external partnerships in trucking, validation, and manufacturing.

Taking care of our team:

At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.

We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.