Senior Technical Program Manager, Robotics & Drones

Program Governance & Risk Management

• 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

Basic Qualifications

• 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 lifecycles, 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AMRs, drones, industrial automation, ADAS, autonomous systems, or other safety- and reliability-critical products.
• Familiarity with robotics software stacks, perception systems, sensors, embedded compute platforms, or edge AI deployment workflows.
• Experience managing customer-facing development programs, pilots, or launches with external partners or OEMs.
• Exposure to regulated or standards-driven environments, including functional safety or industrial safety frameworks.
• PMP, Agile, Scrum, or similar program/project management certification.

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Salary Range: $170k - $200k
As a candidate for this position, your salary and will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills and any other factors Aptiv considers relevant to the hiring decision.

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