About Wing:
Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, and contribute to road accidents and air pollution. Wing’s fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand, in minutes. We design, build, and operate our aircraft, and offer drone delivery services on three continents. Our technology is designed to be easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks, offering a scalable drone delivery solution for a broad range of businesses. Wing is a part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and our mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet. If you're ready to do the greatest work of your life, come join us.
About the Role:
Wing is looking for a Technical Program Manager, Flight Systems to join our Technical Program Management team. This role will be based in Palo Alto, CA or Remote in the United States. As part of Wing’s Technical Program Management function, you’ll embed yourself in the work of the engineering and operations teams to drive cross-functional delivery of strategic and high value programs spanning the entire spectrum of Wing’s on board software and hardware. The ideal candidate will be an excellent program leader with experience managing complex programs across organizational boundaries to deliver new technical capabilities, tracking progress towards organizational goals and objectives, maintaining program plans and timelines, and highlighting identified gaps and problems and tracking mitigation and resolution of them.
What You’ll Do:
- Organize complex, cross-functional technical programs across all phases of a development lifecycle
- Structure engineering scoping, execution, and delivery, and program-manage large and diverse cross-organizational teams
- Facilitate alignment on timelines, goals, and deliverables of related projects and teams
- Collaborate with stakeholders across all levels of the organization to support strategic and tactical decision-making
- Facilitate escalation of risks and issues and unblock obstacles, ensuring all leadership and stakeholders are aware of progress and blockers on a continuous basis while proposing mitigation plans, and aligning stakeholders on de-risking strategies
- Apply technical judgement and understanding to build consensus, scope projects, establish and maintain schedules and plans, and communicate status to stakeholders
- Analyze processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and gaps and collaborating cross-functionally and globally to improve processes and tools
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of experience in technical program management
- Technical aptitude and strong analytical skills
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills in technical and non-technical environments
- Strong organizational tendencies and detail orientation to ensure accuracy, completeness, and efficiency
- Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall program management styles
- Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders in a distributed working environment
- Comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities, and the ability to exercise good judgment in a rapidly changing and sometimes stressful environment
- Experience with Technical Change Management and/or Configuration Management
The US base salary range for this full-time position is the salary range below + bonus + equity + benefits. Wing’s salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
Wing is an equal opportunity employer and it is Wing's policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. Employment at Wing is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Wing does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.
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What We Do
Wing is reshaping the future of delivery. We are an on-demand drone delivery service that can deliver food, medicine or other items within minutes. We’ve also developed an unmanned traffic management platform to safely route drones through the sky. Our service is faster, safer and produces far less pollution than traditional delivery.
