What You'll be Doing
- Assisting in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders.
- Developing detailed technical project plans and monitoring, tracking, documenting decisions, and communicating progress across teams.
- Facilitating breakdown of work (asking questions, making sure right voices are heard, managing resource dependencies, coordinating and scheduling project tasks, divvying up responsibilities to internal groups).
- Being a conduit for information by facilitating back and forth with the Product & Engineering teams.
- Coordinating resource availability for the flawless execution of projects and to meet customer deployment timelines.
- Advising on and handling risk and issue management, exposing dependencies and blockers.
- Implementing and managing change when necessary to meet project outputs.
- External communication and coordination with contractors.
- Light travel - 10%.
Experience and Skills You'll Need
- Technical background and expertise
- 5+ years experience in technical project planning and management for both hardware and software projects.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with both internal and external parties. You realize the best way to manage projects is through the people.
- Experience acting as a scrum master, facilitating sprint planning, and ensuring outcomes meet acceptance criteria.
- Ability to use multiple methodologies (such as agile and waterfall) to manage teams with varying development cycles and priorities.
- Understanding of how various technical pieces come together in complex, multi-disciplinary technical projects.
- Experience in strategic planning, risk management and/or change management.
- Extraordinary attention to detail.
- Excellent decision-making and leadership capabilities.
- Proficient use of RACI charts, JIRA, and other project management software to help drive progress.
- Endless curiosity and openness to learning from others.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
Bonus if You Have
- Project management qualification (PMP) or equivalent.
- Experience working in technical project management with a start up.
Skills Required
- Technical background and expertise
- 5+ years experience in technical project planning and management for both hardware and software projects
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with internal and external parties
- Experience acting as a scrum master and facilitating sprint planning
- Ability to use multiple methodologies (Agile and Waterfall) to manage teams
- Understanding of complex, multi-disciplinary technical project integration
- Experience in strategic planning, risk management and/or change management
- Extraordinary attention to detail
- Excellent decision-making and leadership capabilities
- Proficient use of RACI charts, JIRA, and other project management software
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
- Project management qualification (PMP) or equivalent
- Experience working in technical project management at a startup
What We Do
OSARO is AI for industrial automation. In essence, OSARO’s software enables industrial robots to perform diverse tasks in a wide range of environments. OSARO is transitioning the industry from static robotic systems into dynamic solutions. PRODUCTS OSARO Pick is a full suite of machine-learning software, which automates piece picking for distribution centers. Our proprietary system recognizes objects and controls the movement during the picking process. OSARO Vision is a stand alone solution that recognizes products for factory automation. OSARO Vision is an application of flexible software that can be integrated into any robotic system and licensed to large providers and/or their subcontractors. The demand for warehouse automation technology is increasing due to the convergence of several factors: the rapid shift to a competitive online shopping business, high capital costs coupled with growing labor shortages around fulfillment centers worldwide, and the acknowledgement of the maturity of technology to safely and cost-effectively create and sustain smart factories. Our markets are global and include e-commerce fulfillment and materials handling ($180B market); industrial robotics ($20B market); retail, health and beauty products, apparel, electronics and we are testing applications in the food processing and distribution industry, as well as automotive assembly - trillion dollar markets. Our business model is to work directly with warehouse technology providers to accelerate systems integration. And, as we are a software provider, once the robotic hardware is procured, our vision and control systems can be up and running in hours. OSARO employs a diverse & talented team of experts in the specialized field of machine and deep learning. Our core values are integrity, responsibility, focus on continuous learning, speed and determination and kirei, a Japanese kanji meaning brilliant. Our team is dedicated to building these core values into our products.
