Job Summary:
ALSO is an electric mobility company focused on creating innovative small EVs to address global mobility challenges. The Staff Technical Program Manager will lead complex software projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive firmware and embedded software development aligned with hardware product roadmaps.
Responsibilities:
• As a Technical Program Manager at ALSO, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary software projects from start to finish, managing multiple critical software workstreams from embedded software development, controls, and connectivity.
• You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
• You will work with a team of software and hardware engineers on multiple high-visibility consumer-facing products.
• Drive the planning and implementation of program and features with the cross-functional teams to hit roadmap goals, tracking progress, analyzing risks, resolve execution issues and communicating status.
• Develop and manage program schedules, technical issues, release management and resource needs with engineering and cross-functional teams.
• Manage communication of progress/status with stakeholders and leadership in various locations and time zones, own and nurture relationships between cross-functional teams
• Implement process improvements to streamline product development and continuously manage risks.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering field
• 7+ years of experience in program management, engineering or similar cross-functional role
• Track record of launching consumer electronics, IoT devices, vehicles, and/or other similar hardware/software devices from concept to production. Bonus points if you’ve built plans and workflows in a new organization on 1st generation products.
• Experience managing embedded device hardware/software releases and integration into back-end software systems.
• Proficiency with bug/task tracking software tools, especially Jira.
• Ability to adapt processes to the team composition and be time-efficient with planning and status reporting.
• Demonstrated proficiency in working with cross-functional hardware & software teams - ability to see forrest from trees
• Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
• Ability to distill multivariable problems to clear decisions and actions to move forward.
Company:
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company on a mission to build the world’s best small vehicles for moving people and goods, driven and autonomous. Founded in 2025, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.