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Surface issues early, bring data-backed options rather than just status updates, and ensure every dependency has a clear owner and ETA.\n\nDrive launch and market-readiness planning across vehicle readiness, ODD (operational design domain) coverage, safety validation sign-off, site and facility readiness, and regulatory or permitting requirements for new markets and service areas.\n\nPartner with Autonomy, Safety, Commercial, and Operations to translate top-down strategy into executable roadmaps, and hold teams accountable to the plan.\n\nBuild and run executive reporting - concise, credible updates on program status, risk, and path-to-green for leadership.\n\nDefine and track the KPIs that measure readiness for driverless operation, such as ODD coverage, disengagement rates, system readiness, and rider experience metrics.\n\nEstablish scalable processes and tooling for robotaxi program tracking, ensuring a single source of truth as the program and fleet scale.\n\nRepresent the robotaxi program in cross-company planning, ensuring it's properly sequenced against Waabi's trucking roadmap and shared platform investments.\n\nQualifications:\n10+ years of technical program management experience, with a track record leading complex, cross-functional technical programs from ambiguity to delivery.\n\nDirect experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another safety-critical, deeply cross-functional environment spanning hardware, software, and safety.\n\nDemonstrated ability to build program structure from scratch - dependency maps, risk registers, executive reporting, milestone tracking - in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.\n\nStrong technical fluency across hardware, software, and autonomy/ML domains - able to ask the right questions and spot a false dependency without being a domain expert in any one area.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication; 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