Position Overview
This position willâ¯lead development projects for state-of-the-art heavy duty EV battery technologies.⯠Proterra is looking for a program management professional with strong technical, communication, and leadership skills to meet the demanding technical, quality, and schedule requirements of this growing industry.â¯This position will report to Proterra’sâ¯Director of Program.
This positionâ¯will be immersed in the development process and will shepherd projects from concept through to prototype validation and productionâ¯hand-off. As a Program Manager of Battery Technology,â¯you would be expected understand the product requirements, technical risks and the validation strategy to accelerate the development process. You’ll be passionate about our mission of clean, quiet transportation for all, drawn toward managing complex projects, and able to demonstrate a high degree of process ownership and innovation.
About the Role – You will:
- Lead batteryâ¯technologyâ¯development projectsâ¯
- Develop and communicating project plans and schedulesâ¯
- Identify creative ways to overcome obstacles and meet the schedule despite setbacks.â¯
- Proactively ensure that risk mitigating actions are on-going within the engineering teamsâ¯
- Identify multi-functional design dependencies and risksâ¯â¯
- Transparent communication and escalation with leadership team when required
- Contribute to weekly cross-functional team meetings for each project
- Track and drive closure toâ¯supply chain, manufacturing andâ¯prototype build issuesâ¯
- Collaborate with:â¯
- Commercial team to understand customer requirements and contracts
- Engineering and purchasing team to ensure on-time releases and procurement
- Software and firmware engineers to ensure that software goals and schedules are syncedâ¯
- Reliability and test engineers to make sure validation efforts are thorough and timelyâ¯
- New Production Introduction (NPI) to bring up and hand-off production of the productsâ¯
- Other duties as assigned by managementâ¯
About Our Group:
As strategicâ¯leaders, the Program Managementâ¯team strives to ensure that our values, culture, and engagement always allow usâ¯to doâ¯great things for our company.â¯We work collaboratively to build strong relationships withâ¯the wider Battery Technology Development team, and support each other within our own team.â¯We treat each other with respect, and always try to have a little fun every day!
About You:
- Self-starter with the ability to adapt to interpersonal styles and techniques to influence at all levels of the organization
- Customer-focused attitude, with high level of professionalism and discretion
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality, establish trust and credibility, and act withâ¯complete integrity
- Strong time management and organizational skills
- Strong analytical, problem solving and planning skillsâ¯
- Excellent communicator, relationship builder and able to thrive in multi-functional team engagementâ¯
- Self-motivated, biased towards results, and has a strong sense of ownershipâ¯
- Excellent English communication skills
Your Experience Includes:
- 8-12 years of experience inâ¯experience in managing complex projects through the full product development life cycleâ¯
- Demonstrated experience leading customer-facing programs
- Demonstrated experience creating, maintaining and communicating schedules
- Demonstrated understanding of product release cycle as it relates to the creation and change management of parts and BOM structures
- Demonstrated ability to quickly understand and communicate tradeoffs between engineering design, manufacturability, schedule and costâ¯
- Demonstrated ability to communicate/present complex technical concepts to non-technical teams, audience ranging from cross functional support individuals to executive leadershipâ¯
- BS in an engineering discipline; OR equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications
- Ability work onsite at one of Proterra’s locations either in Burlingame, CA or Greer, SC
- Ability to travel as needed to Proterra sites and project-related partner sitesâ¯
You might also have:
- Batteryâ¯packâ¯other transferable experience.â¯
- Experience with hybrid or electric vehicles.â¯
Travel:â¯0-15%
Location: Greer, SC