Customer Technical Program Manager, Vehicle OS

The role

You will own customer-facing program management, milestones, and cross-functional coordination for a flagship software program. You will work with a major global automotive OEM and coordinate delivery across engineering teams.

What you will do

• Own the customer-facing program and maintain the program baseline including milestones, scope, risk, and dependencies.
• Drive delivery coordination across engineering organization through Engineering TPMs.
• Serve as the primary interface to customer program leadership on schedule, risk, and technical dependencies.
• Operate the full program governance cadence across recurring touchpoints.
• Define, own, and report program-side KPIs.
• Own resolution of program-level issues through structured escalation management.
• Partner with onsite teams to ensure product integration into the customer vehicle program.
• Coordinate and govern customer-facing field activities.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in technical program management within the automotive industry.
• Strong customer-facing presence at director level.
• Ability to coordinate delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Technical depth to assess feasibility and engage engineers across software vehicle and integration domains.
• Builder mindset to set up program structure from scratch.
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or a related field.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in a startup or high-growth environment
• Familiarity with automotive development standards (ASPICE, ISO 26262, AUTOSAR)
• Experience with defect management at scale and severity-based SLA tracking
• Background in series production programs or Vehicle OS / IVI / ADAS platform delivery
• Experience managing the requirements lifecycle (decomposition, traceability, change control)

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (options and/or restricted stock units)
• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage
• 401k retirement benefits with employer match
• Learning and wellness stipends
• Paid time off

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.