About the role
Company Overview
Joby Advanced Development designs, develops, and flight-tests novel aircraft using a software-first autonomy approach. We build and deploy autonomy, perception, planning, and radar systems across conventional, electric, and hydrogen-electric aircraft in both CTOL and VTOL configurations.
Overview
As a Staff Program Manager in the Advanced Development group, you will serve as a strategic program lead across multi-disciplinary engineering teams, directly driving execution and alignment for the J208 program. You will take primary responsibility for overall program execution, financial oversight, and integrated master schedule performance across multiple domains. In this role, you will evaluate broad system interdependencies, solve for complex critical path issues and bottlenecks before they impact strategic objectives, and serve as a decision-maker and thought leader across technical workstreams.
Responsibilities
Direct, evaluate, and report on total J208 program schedule performance and financial health, developing complex forecasting models across engineering workstreams
Partner with engineering leads and cross-functional teams to map complex multi-tier project dependencies, identify critical path drivers, and proactively resolve systemic program bottlenecks
Integrate with Finance to track, analyze, and optimize total program cost performance, aligning budget forecasts with overarching company objectives
Understand and solve for advanced or unique schedule, resource, or technical constraints, developing or selecting new program management tools, methods, and frameworks to maintain program momentum
Facilitate strategic cross-functional alignment and build coalitions across technical hardware, software, flight test, and business operations teams to manage down-the-line system impacts and interdependencies
Develop program management standards, concepts, and reporting frameworks, while mentoring and directing team members across diverse functional backgrounds to improve operational efficiency
Own and manage total program risk profiles and actionable mitigation plans, regularly synthesizing complex technical and financial trade-offs to presen…
