Technical Program Manager, Cloud, Data & Validation Platforms
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Job Location:
South San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 165000 - 210000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Zipline
About You and The Role
Youre a force of nature someone who thrives on bringing order to chaos driving clarity where theres ambiguity and pushing complex cross-functional efforts across the finish line.
As part of Ziplines Program Management team youll own execution for the platforms that power iteration speed and fleet scale: cloud/on-prem infrastructure data pipelines and artifacts CI/CD and developer productivity simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation. Your programs may range from onboard logging and data ingestion to large-scale load testing build system modernization and raising the fidelity/throughput of our validation environments. Youll partner closely with infrastructure data autonomy validation and security teams to keep the engine of velocity running.
What Youll Do
- Own execution for platform programs: Define program goals sequence priorities across cloud/on-prem data platforms CI/CD sim and HIL and align with company objectives.
- Drive cross-functional execution: Coordinate with infra data autonomy validation and product to deliver reliable pipelines robust environments and measurable reliability and performance targets.
- Measure and improve engineering velocity: Reduce build/test cycle times improve data freshness and reliability and increase simulation/HIL throughput and representativeness.
- Engage across the full lifecycle: From platform architecture and security reviews through rollout plans migration/change management and operational handoffs.
- Facilitate strategic decision-making: Lead tradeoff discussions on performance/cost/reliability on-prem vs. cloud and build vs. buy for tooling.
- Communicate program progress: Provide crisp visibility on timelines risks and outcomes to leadership and partner teams.
- Build and evolve program processes: Define metrics run postmortems and retros and harden roadmaps that scale with the fleet.
What Youll Bring
- Over 6 years of experience in technical program management (or equivalent) leading platform data or infrastructure initiatives serving multiple engineering teams. Experience as a Software Engineer working on the above is a strong plus.
- Strong understanding of modern software lifecycles CI/CD and developer workflow best practices.
- Proven ability to drive complex cross-team deliveries with clear prioritization sequencing and risk management.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence outcomes across diverse technical stakeholders.
- Analytical data-driven approach; comfortable defining and improving key metrics including build times data latency and environment reliability and availability targets.
- Adaptability and resilience; experience introducing and scaling new processes and platforms.
- Familiarity with telemetry/log pipelines distributed systems cost/performance tradeoffs in mixed cloud/on-prem simulation/HIL environments and safety-critical software.
What Else You Need to Know
The starting cash range for this role is $165000 - $210000. Please note that this is a target starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors including a specific candidates experience qualifications skills working location and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color ancestry national origin religion or religious creed mental or physical disability medical condition genetic information sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age marital status military or veteran status citizenship or other characteristics protected by state federal or local law or our other policies.
We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit please apply!
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- Management Experience
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- DoD Experience
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Contracts
About Company
Zipline is the world's largest autonomous delivery system, specializing in on-demand drone delivery and instant logistics.
