Technical Product Manager - Data Operations
Torc Robotics

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the Team:

The TPM (Technical Product Management) team's mission is to accelerate the delivery of Torc's product goals, by leveraging our expertise in people, product, and process management. Specifically, the Data TPM team partners with Technology, Product, Systems, Regulatory and others, to provide the fundamental data for our Autonomy software stack, as well as internal tools and processes to accelerate product development. We apply our leadership, product, and project management skills to bring people together across the company to accomplish Torc's mission.

What you'll do:

• Accountable for ensuring consistent delivery of critical projects that meet the company's objectives, coordinating efforts and resources, identifying, and removing organizational barriers to execution as the internal representative of the customer to the engineering organization.
• Responsible for analyzing and communicating product initiatives to development teams, leadership, and other stakeholders. Break down the product initiatives into department-level quarterly plans.
• Analyze top-level product requirements to develop associated department-level plans for components that advance the virtual driver product towards commercial launch.
• Create strong working relationships and maintain effective communication across all product development teams, informing others of new features and release timelines, and soliciting frequent feedback from stakeholders for action.
• Build trust and strong working relationships with the technical subject matter experts and principal engineers that steward the technical roadmap.
• Consult with relevant technical experts and synthesize their input with your own technical and industry knowledge to create and define a balanced product development backlog which drives teams towards the most cost-effective path to commercial launch.
• Cohesively and succinctly present quarterly departmental plans based on cross-functional dependencies for evaluation and approval by engineering leadership at the executive level.
• Represent product development plans, showcase recent development efforts in regular reviews, and synthesize changes in urgency to resolve product issues within the applicable department.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define timelines/milestones, identify/mitigate risks, recommend resource allocation, track progress, resolve dependencies, and resolve bottlenecks.
• Set clear, actionable development team workloads that deliver epic acceptance criteria that cleanly support initiative-level acceptance criteria, delegate tasks and set deadlines.
• Monitor epic status and report metrics for management recognition. Clarify metrics and measurable goals to identify work, clarify urgency and importance, follow-up and verify solutions/results, measure success, review for continuous improvement and effective time management.
• Provide candid and constructive feedback to development team members that maximizes team goals and individual employee potential. Report any issues of concern to managers.
• Create a motivating and inspiring development team environment with an open communication culture. Act proactively to ensure smooth development team operations and effective collaboration.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement. Identify process gaps and/or new areas of focus for continuously improving engineering planning, communication, and execution.

What you'll need to Succeed:

• Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through:
  • BS+ 4+ years of experience OR MS+ 3+ years of experience
• Considered highly skilled and proficient in discipline; conducts complex, important work under minimal supervision and with wide latitude for independent judgment.
• We are looking for a TPM with the experience in one of the following fields:
  • Data Operations
    • Proficiency in ingesting, labelling, and retaining data for AI solutions
    • Proficiency in processing, selecting, annotating, and curating data for our internal AI model developers
    • Experience managing the roadmap and development of in house auto-labeling tools
    • Experience with AWS and API development to support large datasets
    • Experience working with internal manual annotation labelling teams, as well as collaborating with 3rd party outsourced manual annotators
    • Experience In dataset composition and traceability for model generation
    • Experience in coordinating long term data management needs, preferably for an autonomous vehicle organization
    • Experience and vision for reducing human-based annotation workflows
    • Experience working with simulation software, such as Simian and providing analysis on simulated data
    • Experience working with JIRA and Confluence

Bonus Points!

• Experience working within an Autonomous Vehicle organization

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc'r

Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match
• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
• Company-wide holiday office closures
• AD+D and Life Insurance

Hiring Range for Job Opening

US Pay Range

$153,200-$183,800 USD

At Torc, we're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc'rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.

Even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.

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