Senior Program Manager, Trucking

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About This Role

Waabi is an enterprise developing automated transportation systems spanning commercial self-driving trucks and robotaxis. The organization maintains physical locations in Dallas, Toronto, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh while offering remote work opportunities for this position. As a Senior Program Manager specializing in trucking, the professional serves as the central integration coordinator connecting vehicle manufacturing supply, client agreements, site activations, network expansion, and self-driving software readiness. This role bridges autonomous technology capabilities…

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the master commercialization schedule connecting customer agreements, vehicle supply, autonomy readiness, site activations, and account management launches.
• Monitor critical paths, project slips, and potential risks, surfacing issues early to appropriate decision-makers.
• Lead multi-department company milestones and coordinate weekly cross-functional truck program meetings.
• Develop repeatable operational frameworks, procedures, and decision-making structures to facilitate rapid scaling.
• Generate executive-ready documentation and progress updates for technical and business audiences.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of experience in product or program leadership within complex operational and technical sectors such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, defense, logistics, or automotive.
• Demonstrated history of coordinating programs across independent teams involving hardware, software, safety, and operational components.
• Sufficient technical literacy to evaluate software or hardware milestone delays and assess the credibility of recovery strategies.
• Ability to clearly separate facts, assumptions, and risks when communicating with senior leadership.
• Capacity to establish lightweight, effective structures and adjust them as organizational needs evolve.
• Executive-level verbal and written communication abilities focused on problem framing and documentation.

Qualifications

• Direct background in autonomous freight, trucking, or the commercialization of self-driving vehicles.
• Hands-on practice collaborating alongside commercial and operational teams.
• Experience managing a weekly holistic program review cadence.
• Prior involvement in transitioning a physical product from pilot stages to full commercial launch under strict readiness gates.
• Familiarity working jointly with safety or systems engineering teams on go and no-go deployment choices.
• Knowledge of supplier or original equipment manufacturer delivery timelines as dependencies within commercial plans.
• Zero-to-one program deployment experience inside an early-stage or rapidly scaling enterprise.

Core Skills

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages including equity incentive awards and annual performance bonuses.
• Health and wellness coverage encompassing medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time personnel.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Flexible working hours and remote work support.
• Daily snacks, drinks, and catered meals when working from an office location.
• Regularly scheduled virtual, on-site, and off-site team building and social activities.

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