The Technical Project Manager will oversee AI-based industrial robotic projects, managing timelines, coordinating with teams, and ensuring project goals are met effectively.
We are searching for a full-time Technical Project Manager who will help us deliver and deploy our AI-based autonomous industrial robotic solutions into customer hands.
As a Technical Project Manager you will be an integral part of generating and maintaining development timelines across multiple projects. You will work closely with Engineering to make sure we are meeting our internal objectives and external deliverables. With input from Product and Solutions, you will develop and communicate ambitious project plans to ensure our development teams deliver within scope and on time.
At OSARO we develop solutions to endow industrial robots with the level of autonomy needed to perform an unprecedented variety of complex pick and place tasks leveraging sophisticated robot control and neural network-based perception algorithms. We value candidates who are passionate about what they build, feel a strong sense of ownership over their work, and love being continually challenged. You are someone who cares deeply about your team so you are both direct and believe in doing what you say.
What You'll be Doing
- Assisting in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders.
- Developing detailed technical project plans and monitoring, tracking, documenting decisions, and communicating progress across teams.
- Facilitating breakdown of work (asking questions, making sure right voices are heard, managing resource dependencies, coordinating and scheduling project tasks, divvying up responsibilities to internal groups).
- Being a conduit for information by facilitating back and forth with the Product & Engineering teams.
- Coordinating resource availability for the flawless execution of projects and to meet customer deployment timelines.
- Advising on and handling risk and issue management, exposing dependencies and blockers.
- Implementing and managing change when necessary to meet project outputs.
- External communication and coordination with contractors.
- Light travel - 10%.
Experience and Skills You'll Need
- Technical background and expertise
- 5+ years experience in technical project planning and management.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with both internal and external parties. You realize the best way to manage projects is through the people.
- Experience acting as a scrum master, facilitating sprint planning, and ensuring outcomes meet acceptance criteria.
- Ability to use multiple methodologies (such as agile and waterfall) to manage teams with varying development cycles and priorities.
- Understanding of how various technical pieces come together in complex, multi-disciplinary technical projects.
- Experience in strategic planning, risk management and/or change management.
- Extraordinary attention to detail.
- Excellent decision-making and leadership capabilities.
- Proficient use of RACI charts, JIRA, and other project management software to help drive progress.
- Endless curiosity and openness to learning from others.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
Bonus if You Have
- Project management qualification (PMP) or equivalent.
- Experience working in technical project management with a start up.
More About Osaro
OSARO delivers best-in-class robotic piece-picking solutions for e-commerce where key challenges include high SKU inventories, complex packaging, and fragile items. In the rapidly evolving world of logistics technology, OSARO offers smarter automation, low-risk business plans, and its signature Hypercare support from exploration to installation. OSARO’s intelligent robots enable goods-to-robot (G2R) use cases, where the greatest gains are yet to be made on the automated warehouse floor. Its machine-learning vision and control software provides the foundation for all its products.
We have a highly international team made up of expert machine learning practitioners and dedicated software and hardware engineers which matches well with the global nature of our business. We are naturally curious, love healthy debate, and respect varying points of view. At OSARO, we strive to be champions for equality. We believe we can serve as a model for diversity in the tech industry by emphasizing policies of nondiscrimination and inclusion at every step.
We are an equal opportunity employer who offers
Health, dental, vision, classpass credits, and in house yoga
Generous vacation time, and commuter benefits
Excellent paid parental leave policy with the option for additional reduced and unpaid leave
The chance to work with robots in a dog friendly office!
The above full-time position is available immediately. You should be willing to move to the SF Bay Area. Onsite/hybrid.
Top Skills
JIRA
Project Management Software
Osaro San Francisco, California, USA Office
1245 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94103
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