{"id":2118888,"url":"https://alion.io/job/waabi-senior-program-manager-trucking","title":"Senior Program Manager, Trucking","company":{"id":4483,"name":"Waabi","domain":"waabi.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/waabi","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":92,"open_postings":66,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.106,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":150,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States","Canada"],"countries":["US","CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":140000,"max":180000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":180000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-07T21:46:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-07","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T17:20:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":12,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":12},"description":"Waabi's Commercial Product team defines and delivers the end-to-end commercial product that makes autonomous trucking deployable, scalable, and valuable to customers. We sit between autonomy, operations, business development, and customers, turning driverless capability into a real-world product that can be launched, sold, operated, and scaled.\nAs Waabi rapidly scales from commercial pilots to large-scale driverless deployments, this role serves as the critical integration layer between truck supply, customer commitments, expansion efforts, site activations, and autonomy capabilities. You will manage the execution of the commercial plan, proactively tracking dependencies and mitigating risks to drive clear commercial progress.\nWe are hiring a Senior Program Manager to own and align the single integrated commercialization plan, ensuring every element converges seamlessly.\nWhile functional program leads manage their respective areas, you will integrate their milestones into the overarching commercial plan. Success relies on sound judgment: identifying critical dependencies, distinguishing real timeline slips, and resolving decision bottlenecks. A year from now, when leadership asks whether we are on track for a launch, a truck delivery or a customer commitment, the answer should be one page, current, and believed by every team on it.\nWhat You'll Do\nYou will own the integrated commercialization roadmap for trucking and the weekly operating cadence around it. This includes:\nBuild and own the integrated roadmap that ties customer commitments, OEM truck supply, autonomy and ODD readiness, lane and site activation, Mission Control, operations readiness and Account Management launches to dates, with the dependencies between them made explicit. You own the plan end to end.\nMaintain the honest picture: the critical path, the slips, the risks and the decisions needed, surfaced early enough to act on and framed for the people who have to decide.\nLead the execution of key company milestones involving multiple departments at Waabi.\nRun the operating cadence, including a weekly cross-functional Truck Program meeting.\nHelp establish repeatable frameworks, procedures, and decision loops that allow fast and efficient scale.\nProduce executive-ready updates and program artifacts.\nCommunicate clearly with technical, operational, commercial and executive audiences that value first-principles thinking.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nSuccess in this role means the commercial plan converges on purpose rather than by heroics. Specifically, you will have:\nWithin 90 days, one integrated roadmap that Autonomy, Operations, Sales and Account Management believe, with the Truck Program meeting running off it.\nA first driverless launch with no dependency discovered in the final month that was knowable in the first.\nLeadership learning about a slip from you, with options, before they learn about it from a customer.\nDecisions with a date, an owner and a record, so the same question is not re-decided in three meetings.\nQualifications Required\n7+ years in program or product leadership in a complex technical and operational environment (autonomous vehicles, automotive, aerospace, robotics, aviation, defense, logistics or other physical-world deployment).\nTrack record of integrating programs across teams you did not control, in a business with hardware, software, safety and operations in the loop.\nEnough technical fluency to understand why an autonomy or hardware milestone slipped and whether the recovery plan is credible, without needing to be the engineer.\nSeparates facts, assumptions and risks in how you write and speak; comfortable telling senior people something they do not want to hear, early, with options.\nBuilds the minimum structure that works and removes or upgrades it when it stops working.\nExecutive-grade verbal and written communication; most of this role's influence happens in documents and in how a problem is framed.\nSet direction for a program others execute, with no direct reports, and being accountable for the outcome anyway.\nStrongly Preferred\nOwnership mentality: takes initiative and gets into the trenches with key stakeholders.\nVaries the degree of detail to the audience and the moment.\nExperience running a weekly holistic program review.\nExperience taking a physical product from pilot to commercial deployment, where readiness gates and launch dates were real.\nExperience working alongside a safety or systems-engineering function on go/no-go decisions.\nExperience with OEM or supplier delivery schedules as a dependency in a commercial plan.\nZero-to-one program experience at an early-stage or scaling company.\nNice to have\nDirect experience in autonomous trucking, freight or AV commercialization.\nExperience working with operations and/or commercial teams.\nThe US yearly salary range for this role is: $140,000 - $180,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi US Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5209,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Road Transport","Autonomous Driving"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T23:50:34Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 9","filings_12m":9,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":172500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":12,"expected_fill_days":150,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":180000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/waabi-senior-program-manager-trucking","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/waabi-senior-program-manager-trucking.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T19:05:40Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":21936,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4483},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4483"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwaabi-senior-program-manager-trucking"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwaabi-senior-program-manager-trucking"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwaabi-senior-program-manager-trucking"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/waabi-senior-program-manager-trucking\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwaabi-senior-program-manager-trucking"}]}