Technical Project Manager

Are you a trained engineer who over the course of your career realized your talents included managing projects and people? Do you have a passion for advanced technology and problem solving and love to get to the bottom of tough problems and orient teams to solve them? Do you want to make a difference in a company that is changing mobility?

May Mobility is looking for highly motivated, activated, and energetic technical project managers who can lead teams to solve some of the hardest problems in autonomous driving. Work will include: leading teams to deeply analyze and understand problems through data, clarifying fuzzy requirements and prioritizing competing technical tasks, assessing and aggressively mitigating risks, and detail-oriented status tracking. Technical project managers at May coordinate frequently and effectively across all company functions including autonomy, vehicle engineering, software, product, finance, and operations.

This opportunity is a hybrid role, where office work is located at May Mobility HQ in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Occasional travel may be required to operational sites.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates most successful in this role typically hold the following qualifications or comparable knowledge or experience:

Required

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Engineering, Computer Science, or highly technical degree preferred
• A minimum of 2+ years of prior experience as an engineer or other highly technical area
• A minimum of 2+ years experience with managing direct reports, mentoring, and coaching
• A minimum of 5+ years of technical project management experience, including team management, project planning, status updating, and risk management. Ideally, this experience is at least partially in fast-paced research and development projects.
• A high level of initiative and activation. Must be able to enthusiastically take on challenges, including those peripheral to core responsibilities when needed for project success.
• Ability to clarify and document fuzzy requirements and challenges such that a project team can efficiently and effectively solve problems.
• An ability to clearly and concisely communicate technical concepts, including root cause analysis, technical challenges and their solutions, and results backed by data.
• An ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people and teams.
• Understanding of software and hardware development life cycles, integration processes, and test/validation complexity.

Desirable

• Working-level knowledge of the autonomous vehicle industry
• 7+ years of Project/Program management experience
• 5+ years experience with managing direct reports, mentoring, and coaching
• Start-up experience

Physical Requirements

• Standard office working conditions, which includes but is not limited to:
• Prolonged sitting
• Prolonged standing
• Prolonged computer use
• Lift up to 50 pounds

• Hybrid role based out of Ann Arbor, MI
• Hybrid employees work remotely from their home or alternative workspace as well as from one of our offices or sites at an agreed-upon cadence set by their leader and based on the nature of their role.