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L4/L5 – Pod Lead (Operation Manager/Data Delivery Program Manager)

  • Reference Number: 417261
  • Posted: 11/04/2026
  • Job Type: Contract
  • Industry: Technology and IT

L4/L5 – Pod Lead (Operation Manager/Data Delivery Program Manager)
  • No remote work available, assigned desk to be provided
  • Location: Bellevue, San Jose, or Los Angeles

Job Responsibility
  • Manages and drives assigned projects end to end, working with the technical program manager after product requirements are concrete
  • Primary responsibility is to assure quality that features (person, vehicle, and motion detection) meet product requirements
  • Tracks all necessary action items to meet the planned timeline of the release across milestones and, Post Launch Model Releases support (PLR)
  • Drives cross-team investigations with Firmware, Science, and Product teams when quality issues are found or escalated
  • Before the Data team collects, verifies that the device's data/video-collection pipeline works on the right environment, then supports the collection itself (e.g., new FW builds) and feeds findings back to the Data and Science teams
  • Tracks progress across all three workstreams and reports status to blue badge PM
  • Escalates risks, blockers, and quality issues to stakeholders
  • When data collection or annotation needs more resource, hands-on those tasks to meet the promised timeline
  • Mentors and guides L4 (or L3) associates

Basic Qualifications
  • 3+ years of program or project management experience
  • 3+ years of experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams
  • BA/BS degree or equivalent in engineering, business, technology, or related fields
  • Experience defining program requirements and using data/metrics to determine improvements
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience managing multiple competing priorities with attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications
  • PMP or equivalent project management certification
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate with engineers at a technical level and work with them to identify high-performance, scalable solutions
  • Experience leading moderately complex projects with cross-functional dependencies
  • Strategic mindset — ability to consider the larger picture (efficiency, quality, customer experience) and balance against team resources
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills
  • Proficiency in drafting concise documents to communicate project status, challenges, and solutions
  • Understands company build and deployment processes
  • Demonstrated ability to make group or department-level business decisions

Location

Seattle, WA

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