Staff Technical Program Manager

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. 

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. 

In this role, you will be a member of Rivian’s Technical Program Management team, responsible for driving programs in the Commercial Technology team. You will partner with product, design and software engineering, and other cross-functional teams to drive software development in consumer and employee facing products. This role will require deep collaboration from various stakeholders from concept to production, requiring strong partnerships with engineering, and other teams. This role will repor to to our Sr. Manager, TPM and can be located in Palo Alta or Irvina, CA OR Vancouver BC.

• As a Technical Program Manager at Rivian, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary software projects from start to finish, managing multiple critical software workstreams embedded software development.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering field
• 7+ years of experience in program management, product management, engineering or similar cross-functional role
• Track record of launching consumer facing software products
• 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.
• Passion for and demonstrated proficiency in working with cross-functional software teams.
• Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills.
• Understands how to accelerate development pace while balancing technical quality and product/design scope
• Time-efficient with use of meetings and asynchronous communication to drive decisions and next steps.
• Ability to travel as needed

The salary range for this role is $154,00 - $209,300 for California based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.

Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at  View email address on ev.careers .

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Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions. 

How We Use AI in Our Hiring Process: To ensure transparency, we want candidates to know that Rivian uses iCIMS Talent Cloud Artificial Intelligence (TCAI) and AI-enabled tools to assist with screening, reviewing, organizing and highlighting profiles and applications that match the key requirements for each role.

AI does not make hiring decisions: Qualified candidate applications are reviewed by a member of our team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans. We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment. We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.

Participation in AI profile matching is entirely voluntary. If you prefer that your profile not be used in this process, you can opt out at any time. Opting out means your profile will be excluded from automated matching and will not be surfaced for additional roles through this system. Your current application remains active and will not be affected in any way.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.