Principal Program Manager – Strategic Planning & Execution | Torc Robotics | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About the Company</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. <a href="https://torc.ai/daimler-testing-automated-trucks-public/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Now a part of the Daimler family</a>, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Meet the Team:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Principal Program Manager, Strategic Planning & Execution supports and leads company-wide strategic efforts, including playing a pivotal role in building and executing on annual and long-term strategic plans. This position is crucial to the business’s ability to establish and execute its short, medium, and long-term plans in a highly innovative industry. This leader plays a key role in strategy formulation, collaborates with both internal and external stakeholders, and leads coordination of cross-functional development and execution of business wide operational strategies. Success in this role demands a strong strategic and analytical orientation coupled with exceptional leadership and communication skills and a highly developed collaborative nature</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll do</strong>:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategy Insights:</em></strong> Drives efforts to bring together crucial pieces of information such as competitor performance, customer insights, operational performance, business plans, innovation, gap assessments and market insights from various internal and external sources to develop strategic options.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategic Planning and Execution:</em></strong> From Planning to Execution, responsible for strategic planning through a decentralized team of leaders across a matrixed environment. This includes (i) spearheading and/or aligning the strategic vision across all fronts of the business (ii) maintaining oversight of departmental strategic plans and ensuring alignment with the overall corporate roadmap (iii) establishing reviews of key strategic priorities and translating them into actionable and quantitative plans. Alongside the program management team, product management, and senior leadership, you ensure the strategic planning process is timely, focused, and impactful making sure that planning and execution is aligned across the entire enterprise.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Corporate Roadmap:</em></strong> Develop and maintain the corporate roadmap, integrating product, technology, and commercial planning, into one unified view of the long-term business.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategic Performance Management:</em></strong> Responsible for the management and development of the KPI infrastructure related to the Corporate Roadmap, and for analysis and reporting of performance against strategic objectives. This includes monitoring and coordinating with functional roadmaps. Develops and maintains regular reporting rhythms for the business’s leaders as well as facilitating cross-functional performance reviews for this leadership.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategic Risk Management:</em></strong> Tasked with (i) the development of strategic threat identification and evaluation processes as well as interfacing with the company’s Enterprise Risk Management function (ii) communicating risks to the strategic roadmap to key stakeholders and Company leadership and (iii) communicating mitigation plans.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategy Coach:</em></strong> Plays the role of a strategy coach to all departmental leadership within the business, providing support in and collaboration in the formulation of individual department strategies – especially focusing on those strategies that are required components of the overall Corporate Roadmap and ensuring alignment between the Corporate Roadmap and departmental strategies.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Analytics</em></strong>: Analyzes a wide variety of internal and external data to provide relevant, timely and meaningful insights to the business and key stakeholders.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Collaboration</em></strong>: Plays a highly collaborative role and will routinely work with the business’s key stakeholders and leadership in developing and executing the Corporate Roadmap.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Change Management:</em></strong> Develops comprehensive change management strategies that bridge between the Corporate Roadmap and the operational implementation, ensuring effective communication across all levels of the organization and ensuring changes and strategy are understood and accepted.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Mentorship and Program Management Expertise:</em></strong> Act as a key leader of program management discipline at Torc, mentoring, guiding, and supporting peers to level-up how we deliver programs. Influence and lead peers across the company to instill a sense of program discipline, and coach peers to deliver to a high bar.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll need to Succeed:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through:<!-- -->
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">BS+ 20+ years of experience, MS+ 10+ years of experience, or PHD+ 7+ years of experience.</span></li>
</ul>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through a minimum of 10 years of relevant working experience in a corporate setting, with experience in a desirable combination of the following areas: project or portfolio management, commercial operations, data analytics, commercial strategy, engineering, product management or business development.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong communicator, both verbally and in written form.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Exceptionally good analytical skills, with an ability to translate raw information into actionable strategies and initiatives.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrates strong executive presence, attention to detail, high-energy and a proactive nature, have a positive can-do attitude, be result and data-driven, have exceptional problem-solving skills, and work comfortably in a group/collaborative setting.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong business acumen, ability to multitask and meet aggressive deadlines, and demonstrate an ability to stay calm under pressure.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Proven ability to establish and implement strategies and manage complex cross-functional projects.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Points!</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in the automotive, safety-critical systems product development, or software industry.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Proven track record building cross functional relationships.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401K plan with a 6% employer match</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Company-wide holiday office closures</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">AD+D and Life Insurance</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Hiring Range for Job Opening</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">US Pay Range</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$215,500—$258,600 USD</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. <a href="https://torc.ai/daimler-testing-automated-trucks-public/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Now a part of the Daimler family</a>, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Meet the Team:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Principal Program Manager, Strategic Planning & Execution supports and leads company-wide strategic efforts, including playing a pivotal role in building and executing on annual and long-term strategic plans. This position is crucial to the business’s ability to establish and execute its short, medium, and long-term plans in a highly innovative industry. This leader plays a key role in strategy formulation, collaborates with both internal and external stakeholders, and leads coordination of cross-functional development and execution of business wide operational strategies. Success in this role demands a strong strategic and analytical orientation coupled with exceptional leadership and communication skills and a highly developed collaborative nature</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll do</strong>:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategy Insights:</em></strong> Drives efforts to bring together crucial pieces of information such as competitor performance, customer insights, operational performance, business plans, innovation, gap assessments and market insights from various internal and external sources to develop strategic options.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategic Planning and Execution:</em></strong> From Planning to Execution, responsible for strategic planning through a decentralized team of leaders across a matrixed environment. This includes (i) spearheading and/or aligning the strategic vision across all fronts of the business (ii) maintaining oversight of departmental strategic plans and ensuring alignment with the overall corporate roadmap (iii) establishing reviews of key strategic priorities and translating them into actionable and quantitative plans. Alongside the program management team, product management, and senior leadership, you ensure the strategic planning process is timely, focused, and impactful making sure that planning and execution is aligned across the entire enterprise.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Corporate Roadmap:</em></strong> Develop and maintain the corporate roadmap, integrating product, technology, and commercial planning, into one unified view of the long-term business.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategic Performance Management:</em></strong> Responsible for the management and development of the KPI infrastructure related to the Corporate Roadmap, and for analysis and reporting of performance against strategic objectives. This includes monitoring and coordinating with functional roadmaps. Develops and maintains regular reporting rhythms for the business’s leaders as well as facilitating cross-functional performance reviews for this leadership.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategic Risk Management:</em></strong> Tasked with (i) the development of strategic threat identification and evaluation processes as well as interfacing with the company’s Enterprise Risk Management function (ii) communicating risks to the strategic roadmap to key stakeholders and Company leadership and (iii) communicating mitigation plans.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Strategy Coach:</em></strong> Plays the role of a strategy coach to all departmental leadership within the business, providing support in and collaboration in the formulation of individual department strategies – especially focusing on those strategies that are required components of the overall Corporate Roadmap and ensuring alignment between the Corporate Roadmap and departmental strategies.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Analytics</em></strong>: Analyzes a wide variety of internal and external data to provide relevant, timely and meaningful insights to the business and key stakeholders.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Collaboration</em></strong>: Plays a highly collaborative role and will routinely work with the business’s key stakeholders and leadership in developing and executing the Corporate Roadmap.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Change Management:</em></strong> Develops comprehensive change management strategies that bridge between the Corporate Roadmap and the operational implementation, ensuring effective communication across all levels of the organization and ensuring changes and strategy are understood and accepted.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Mentorship and Program Management Expertise:</em></strong> Act as a key leader of program management discipline at Torc, mentoring, guiding, and supporting peers to level-up how we deliver programs. Influence and lead peers across the company to instill a sense of program discipline, and coach peers to deliver to a high bar.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll need to Succeed:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through:<!-- -->
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">BS+ 20+ years of experience, MS+ 10+ years of experience, or PHD+ 7+ years of experience.</span></li>
</ul>
<p></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through a minimum of 10 years of relevant working experience in a corporate setting, with experience in a desirable combination of the following areas: project or portfolio management, commercial operations, data analytics, commercial strategy, engineering, product management or business development.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong communicator, both verbally and in written form.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Exceptionally good analytical skills, with an ability to translate raw information into actionable strategies and initiatives.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrates strong executive presence, attention to detail, high-energy and a proactive nature, have a positive can-do attitude, be result and data-driven, have exceptional problem-solving skills, and work comfortably in a group/collaborative setting.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong business acumen, ability to multitask and meet aggressive deadlines, and demonstrate an ability to stay calm under pressure.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Proven ability to establish and implement strategies and manage complex cross-functional projects.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Points!</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in the automotive, safety-critical systems product development, or software industry.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Proven track record building cross functional relationships.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401K plan with a 6% employer match</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Company-wide holiday office closures</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">AD+D and Life Insurance</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Hiring Range for Job Opening</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">US Pay Range</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$215,500—$258,600 USD</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.</p>