Principal Program Manager

at  Oxa

WHO ARE WE?

Oxa is enabling the transition to self-driving vehicles through an initial focus on the most commercially advanced sector; the autonomous shuttling of goods and people.We are home to some of the world’s leading experts on autonomous vehicles, creating solutions such as Oxa Driver, equipping vehicles with full self-driving functionality; Oxa MetaDriver, using Generative AI to accelerate and assure the safety of deployments; and Oxa Hub, a set of cloud-based offerings for autonomous fleet management. Our technology is being deployed across the UK and the U.S, and we’re partnering with a fast-growing ecosystem of operators, vehicle OEMs and equipment makers serving autonomous transportation globally as it advances.
Based in Oxford, and with offices in Canada and the U.S, Oxa was founded in 2014 and is growing rapidly (350+ ‘Oxbots’ to date). Our purpose is to change the way the Earth moves, through an uncompromising focus on safety, efficiency and explainability of our AI approaches. The company has attracted $225 million from leading investors so far, with $140 million raised in the last Series C funding round in January 2023.

Our Principal Program Manager will be responsible for program management across Oxa’s portfolio.
They will set the standard for program management, ensuring that processes are fit for purpose, that roadmaps are up-to-date, that resources (human and physical) are well-managed, dependencies, risks and issues are actively managed, and you will ensure we are able to re-plan efficiently when dates and circumstances inevitably change. They will ensure that program management materials are easily consumable by anyone at Oxa, tracking budgets and drive accountability in teams to help us to meet estimates.
Our Principal Program Manager will work with enterprise customers and industry partners and coach others to do so, ensuring that we interface with their own program management functions, communicating in the right way with the right materials.
This is a hands-on role. As well as providing direction and coaching for program managers and teams across the organisation, they will be expected to personally prepare plans, roadmaps and other program management materials as needed. They will actively seek out program gaps through quantitative methods and intuition, taking ownership and responsibility for these gaps and be able to iterate quickly when/if gaps are discovered with appropriate teams to come up with a joint solution. You will be proactive and often won’t need prompting to find a solution.