Hiring: Director - Technical Program Management Company: Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies Location: Palo Alto, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:57:08 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Embedded Systems, Product Development Lifecycle, Program Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Systems Integration About the job Experience: •10+ years in technical program management or engineering leadership delivering complex products that combine hardware and software, including 3+ years managing platform or subsystem-level programs. Required Skills: •Manage cross-functional and brand technical and program alignment: ensure that interactions between critical stakeholders are successful, and manage and participate in touchpoints across functions. •Continuously exchange/align with the VWG technical program lead and resolve technical issues between teams. •Align with VWG leadership on technical targets, timing, and execution plan. •Own program execution strategy, product development plan and the change-request process for your package across RVT and VWG, driving simplification and an iterative approach throughout the program. •Supervision Of Tech Maturity For Corresponding Package •Steer development by partnering with the technical organization on delivery and ensuring overarching program maturity. •Define program-specific development scope/deliverables and coordinate development responsibilities. •Align on program/feature-specific decision needs, conduct risk assessments, and manage changes/re-prioritizations. Qualifications: •Excellent stakeholder management skills across internal teams and external partners, including experience owning requirements governance and change-request/escalation processes as a primary technical point of contact between organizations •Cross-domain engineering fluency across hardware, software, and systems integration sufficient to referee technical trade-offs and prioritization conflicts between engineering leads. •Track record delivering integration, validation, and software release cycles through a full product development lifecycle (concept to production/launch) for any kind of embedded system •Proven ability to drive alignment and decisions in ambiguous, multi-stakeholder governance structures without direct authority. Compensation: •$218,800 - $359,425 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be is eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!