Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Director - Technical Program Management
$219K–$359K
Palo Alto, California · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; includes 3+ years managing platform- or subsystem-level programs.
About the job
Directs cross-company technical program execution for a product package, coordinating requirements, engineering trade-offs, resources, timelines, integration, validation, and software releases between Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies.
What you'll do
- Own package execution strategy, requirements and change-request governance, and alignment with Volkswagen Group leadership and engineering teams.
- Oversee technical maturity, risks, prioritization, integration and validation planning, and product lifecycle software releases.
- Request resources, manage package timelines and test assets, and report technical status at leadership and program reviews.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in technical program management or engineering leadership delivering complex hardware-and-software products, including 3+ years managing platform- or subsystem-level programs.
- Stakeholder management experience, including requirements governance and change-request/escalation processes as a primary technical point of contact between organizations.
- Cross-domain fluency in hardware, software, and systems integration to mediate technical trade-offs and prioritization conflicts.
- Track record delivering integration, validation, and software release cycles for embedded systems through the full product development lifecycle; ability to drive decisions without direct authority.
Pay
$218,800 – $359,425 USD base salary
Tools
hardware, software, systems integration, embedded system
AI focus
The posting mentions AI as part of the company’s broader technology focus but does not specify AI work for this role.
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