Senior Technical Program Manager - Development Ecosystem
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Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Senior Technical Program Manager - Development Ecosystem
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Employment Type: Employee
Work Location Type: Hybrid
Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation - expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.
Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.
The AD/ADAS Project Management Team’s goal is to enable the successful delivery of technology from the engineering organization to achieve business goals. The Project Management function in Woven By Toyota’s (WbyT’s) AD/ADAS organization is a partner to the Engineering and Product functions and owns the technical execution of the AD/ADAS portfolio maintaining the organization’s plan of record and ensuring execution velocity and agility of a highly cross-functional engineering team distributed across multiple locations.
Our team members come from a mix of Autonomy, off-board ecosystem, hardware and vehicle backgrounds but we all share a common drive to enable the delivery of complex and safe autonomous engineering products to the world. We are problem solvers who make things happen by setting and communicating clear goals and supporting engineering teams to deliver through the technical and organizational complexity.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive complex cross-functional Platform projects across simulation, validation, CI/CD, ML infrastructure, and visualization tools to provide a robust end-to-end development ecosystem, improve autonomy development efficiency, and shorten time-to-validation.
- Define project scope, milestones, and success metrics for platform capabilities, explicitly tying them to developer productivity, iteration speed, test throughput, and safety validation timelines, and aligning outcomes with the broader autonomy roadmap.
- Create and maintain an integrated project plan of record (sprint, quarter, year) that unifies platform team roadmaps into a single execution and risk-management view, with clear critical paths to autonomy feature readiness and validation gates.
- Lead cross-functional planning and high-velocity execution across Simulation, Validation, Tools, and Infrastructure teams, proactively resolving dependencies and blockers that slow builds, tests, or validation, and driving timely, evidence-based decisions.
- Drive transparency and accountability in the development ecosystem by clarifying ownership, interfaces, deliverables, and integration checkpoints, and by establishing governance cadences and reporting that highlight autonomy development efficiency, test capacity, and validation risk.
- Identify and resolve systemic issues in the development workflow (e.g., flaky tests, bottlenecked simulation capacity, long triage loops), and continuously evolve Technical Project Management practices for platform work, including tooling, processes, and mentoring other TPMs focused on autonomy efficiency and validation outcomes.
Requirements
- 6+ years program/project management experience within a software, automotive, aerospace, robotics, or mobility-related industry.
- Knowledge of the AD/ADAS development ecosystem for in-vehicle and off-vehicle stack.
- Proven track record of leading large projects to successful delivery spanning cross-functional engineering organizations of 100+ stakeholders.
- Experience driving technical projects in ambiguity, with only high-level direction across distributed teams and diverse business cultures.
- Experience with establishing and evolving projects operations and decision-making structures adapting to team culture and operating constraints.
Nice to Have
- Experience in Autonomous Vehicle projects, Automotive, or OEM/Tier-1 environments
- Experience in the development of autonomy features for L2/L4 systems
- Proficiency in Business level Japanese
- PMP/PMI or other Project Management certifications are welcome
We Offer
- Base Salary: $140,000 - $230,000 a year
- Benefits:
- Excellent health, wellness, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Family planning and care benefits
About the Company
Woven by Toyota is committed to creating a modern work environment that supports our employees and their loved ones. We offer many options of the best programs to allow you to do your most meaningful work and to help you shape the future of mobility.
Our Commitment
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
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