Senior Project Manager

Founded in 2015, Acubed is the Silicon Valley innovation center of Airbus. As a global leader in aerospace, Airbus aims to make things fly. Our mission is to provide a lens into the future for the industry, transforming risk into opportunity to build the future of flight now.

At Acubed, we strive to propel innovation to market faster, broaden the talent pool in emerging aerospace careers and simultaneously help drive a culture change across Airbus.

WAYFINDER

The Wayfinder team is building scalable, certifiable autonomy systems to power the next generation of commercial aircraft. Our experts are driving the maturation of machine learning and other core technologies for autonomous flight; we are creating a reference architecture that includes hardware, software, and a data-driven development process to allow aircraft to perceive and react to their environment. Autonomous flight is transforming the transportation industry, and our team is at the heart of this revolution.

The Opportunity: 

As Wayfinder’s Project Manager, you are responsible for projects on the Wayfinder team. You provide strategic leadership and direction for project teams and guide them through project planning, execution, and delivery. You play a key role in setting priorities, defining scope, and managing risks. You will be involved in resource allocation, financial planning, creating contracts, and procuring to satisfy the team’s technical plan and deliverables This position reports to VP of AI, Autonomy and Digital Information.

In this role, you will drive results-driven outcomes while prioritizing relationships and communicating fluently with both technical leaders and team members. You’ll partner with engineering leads to manage various planning and reporting efforts. You will ensure progress by identifying and driving continuous improvement. Most importantly, you possess a strong sense of ownership, a passion for data and software (SW) development, enjoy solving complex problems and have the know-how to foster strong relationships and build trust within the team and among stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities: 

• Support and organize activities of the team, using latest planning tools and methodologies
• Track progress of projects, identify discrepancies and risks to mitigate schedule and resource impacts, and update the relevant team members including VP of AI, Autonomy, Digital Information
• Conduct periodic and ad hoc project data analysis and articulate results in tabular and graphical formats, reach conclusions and provide sound advice to management
• Compile financial needs, prepare the yearly budget, and administer it, keeping tight grip of financial forecasting
• Proactively oversee budget as required by unforeseen events, and manage and update as needed the project’s cost breakdown structure
• Manage project budgetary risks and opportunities and associated action plans
• Analyze project actuals and commitments at the end of each month
• Monitor the status of purchase orders and contracts and prepare financial accruals at the end of each month (including tracking contracts and auto-renewals)
• Coordinate and delegate management of procurement orders from beginning to end (getting approval, placing orders, following up with vendors, tracking receipt and updating project documentation)
• Draft contracts and shepherd them through the review process to execution
• Manage internal relationships with support functions (including Digital Information, legal, finance, comms and other operational teams)
• Manage team visitors including NDAs and other operational policy requirements
• Implement and improve project and program management methods in response to ongoing tasks and to accommodate the continued growth of the team and scope
• Pursue program-specific tasks and issues identified by VP of AI, Autonomy, Digital Information
• Provide clarity to stakeholders on current project statuses and make sound recommendations to the VP of AI, Autonomy and Digital Information.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience 
• 8 years of professional experience in project or program management
• Ability to build an excellent rapport with internal constituents: engineers and technologists with a variety of personalities and styles
• Strong program and project management skills. Proven experience managing complex projects to successful completion including the ability to navigate complex environments and work with interdisciplinary teams and effectively communicate priorities, delivery expectations, risks and concerns to senior management
• Ability to define and/or modify processes rather than applying what exists today
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements, including the ability to multi-task and juggle many competing priorities and deadlines
• Ability to be extremely detail-oriented and to use analysis to drive decisions
• Proven ability to work in a matrix-style organizational structure to motivate and influence others
• Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills
• Strong organizational and team building skills

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with cloud services and deployment
• PMP, Scrum and/ or Six Sigma certifications 

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location and years of experience, the target annual salary for this position can range from $173,000 to $218,00 target bonus benefits (including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and flight training).

* Note that Acubed does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.