Product and Engineering Operations Manager
Product and Engineering Operations Manager
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$ 156000 - 221000
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Job Description
Intrinsic is Alphabets bet aiming to reimagine the potential of industrial robotics. Our team believes that advances in AI perception and simulation will redefine whats possible for industrial robotics in the near future with software and data at the core.
Our mission is to make industrial robotics intelligent accessible and usable for millions more businesses entrepreneurs and developers. We are a dynamic team of engineers roboticists designers and technologists who are passionate about unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics.
Role
As a Product and Engineering Operations Manager youll optimize Intrinsics health by owning simple yet effective operational practices and processes from collaborative definition to successful adoption. You will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with amazing and talented people across all of Intrinsics functions.
You will play a key role in evolving Intrinsics Product and Engineering operations to effectively enable tradeoffs between several dimensions of health (e.g. agility output sustainability . To achieve that you will collaborate closely with leaders in Product and Engineering but also your counterparts in Commercial Operations. You will hold the tension between giving individual functions the space to maximize their autonomy while ensuring alignment with how Intrinsic effectively and efficiently operates overall.
Within Product and Engineering you will continuously evolve practices and processes to match Intrinsics needs from quarterly planning to ad hoc reprioritization. All while driving adoption of our operations through simplicity and effectiveness.
You will collaborate closely with the Commercial Operations team to ensure that practices and processes go hand in hand from first customer contact to continuous product support.
How your work moves the mission forward
- Collaborate with crossfunctional stakeholders to define and evolve simple yet effective Product and Engineering processes and practices (e.g. quarterly roadmap planning feature lifecycle)
- Facilitate alignment between functions to maximize their autonomy while ensuring the sum of practices and processes optimize Intrinsics needs overall
- Motivate by creating clarity. For example manage change by creating clarity on: Why is a change needed How did we decide on the change What is changing
- Own an uptodate health overview and manage related risks e.g. resource allocations
- Guide the team to follow Intrinsics established practices and processes collect feedback to evolve our operations to successfully deliver at scale
- Represent your function in regular leadership updates and proactively raise flags where leadership guidance is needed
Skills you will need to be successful
- Experience in establishing and applying agile product and engineering development and management methodology (Scrum Kanban etc) and comfortable adapting and leveraging these in ambiguous settings with shifting priorities
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle and workflows: collecting and writing product requirements feature planning breakdown in a work management software (e.g. JIRA etc) Github collaboration workflows CI/CD workflows testing QA and release processes
- Strength in facilitating tradeoff discussions between competing priorities and stakeholders as well as reaching alignment of competing needs and constraints through critical thinking e.g. keeping right level of Operations when delivering novel products on ambitious timelines
- Experienced in managing Product and Engineering Operations from start to end (incl. collaborative definition change/adoption management stakeholder management)
- Concise and clear communicator especially when documenting and introducing new practices and processes
- Bachelors degree in a technical field or equivalent industry experience
Skills that will differentiate your candidacy
- Experience in evolving a wide range of practices and processes for Product and Engineering teams from startups to established corporations
- Experience in working with or establishing agile processes at scale (e.g. using SAFe Less DAD etc)
- Experience in working at the intersection of Commercial and Product/Engineering Operations
- Experience in software engineering robotics and/or automation
- Exceptionally organized and selfdriven with a strong sense of ownership
The US base salary range for this fulltime position is between $156000 $221000 bonus equity benefits. Your recruiter will share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.
At Intrinsic we dont just accept difference we celebrate it we support it and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees our products and our community. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
