Technical Program Manager, Robotics and Drones. Boston LilyLifestyle

Senior Technical Program Manager, Robotics & Drones

We are Aptiv - a global technology company with 200,000 specialists in 48 countries. We develop innovative software and build the hardware to bring autonomous driving cars, advanced driver-assistance systems, connected vehicles and smart cities to life in a way that only we can. We work in partnership with almost all car manufacturers. Our sensors, systems and software can already be found in almost all passenger cars today.

• Define the program breakdown structure across hardware and software development, integration, validation, and deployment work streams, and assign ownership across engineering teams.
• Build and maintain integrated program plans with scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, resource assumptions, and critical path visibility aligned to product roadmap and customer commitments.
• Translate product and customer requirements into execution plans with clear entry/exit criteria, development priorities, and release readiness gates.
• Drive on‑time, at‑cost, and high‑quality delivery of assigned programs, proactively identifying schedule risks, tradeoffs, and mitigation actions.

• Facilitate strategic and technical discussions across Product Management, and Engineering teams to ensure alignment on scope and execution.
• Partner with Sensors and Compute product leaders to ensure all engineering work aligns with platform strategy, product roadmap, and reuse objectives across robotics programs.
• Support feasibility assessments for new features, customer requests, and platform enhancements, including implications for architecture, timing, resource needs, development cost, manufacturability, and performance.
• Coordinate engineering staffing needs with functional managers and technical leads to balance priorities across multiple programs.

• Drive the program operating cadence across sprint reviews, milestone reviews, risk reviews, change control, and executive updates.
• Establish disciplined meeting structures, agendas, and action tracking to improve accountability and execution velocity across teams.
• Communicate clear program status to senior leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders, including progress, risks, recovery plans, key decisions, and business impact.
• Maintain Jira dashboards and related reporting tools to track feature readiness, sprint health, defect trends, issue closure, dependencies, and key engineering milestones.
• Manage scope changes, engineering change requests, and SOW updates, with clear assessment of impacts to schedule, cost, quality, and deliverables.
• Proactively identify cross‑functional dependencies, lead issue triage and root‑cause resolution planning.
• Own product related resource allocation, including staffing and materials, and forecasting.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in technical program management, systems engineering, product development, or a related role in robotics, automotive, embedded systems, or other complex technical environments.
• Proven track record of managing complex cross‑functional programs involving both hardware and software deliverables.
• Strong working knowledge of product development life cycles, release planning, integration, and validation processes.
• Experience with Agile development practices and program tracking tools such as Jira.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage ambiguity and drive decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to synthesize technical detail into executive‑ready updates.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple teams toward a common mission and hold teams accountable to commitments.

• Experience with AMRs, drones, industrial automation, ADAS, autonomous systems, or other safety‑and‑reliability‑critical products.
• Familiarity with robotics software stacks, perception systems, sensors,…