Lead Software Engineering Program Manager

Who We Are

Humane is a team of proven industry experts who have invented, built, and shipped category-defining hardware and software products to billions of people across the globe. We're known for building the audacious, ambitious, and the impossible, and we're doing it again. Our vision for the next shift between humans and computing requires innovation across multiple emerging technologies in hardware and software, from devices to cloud services.

About The Role

Humane is looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to join our talented Software Engineering Program Management team to drive end to end new products, features and strategic initiatives across software, cloud and hardware to achieve our strategic and business goals. By executing and overseeing multiple related projects across device, web, software, backend services, consumer services, e-commerce, factory, ops design, and many more cross-functional teams, an experienced Lead EPM will help drive strategic projects from start to finish as well as manage roadmaps for diverse teams and portfolios. The Lead EPM achieves this by being highly collaborative, very detail-oriented, insightful, driven to manage project risk, always "closing the loop" and applying both project and product management skill sets.

What You Might Do

• Work directly with various Heads of Engineering and their teams to own and drive roadmaps that impact Humane Ai Pin, Humane.Center, Humane Network and other Humane consumer services present and future.
• Work with cross functional teams across software, hardware, design, product marketing, cloud, infrastructure, factory, ops, QA and many more to lead and coordinate the development of features across various platforms.
• Work with the Head of Software Program Management to develop roadmaps and provide visibility into critical work streams to be prioritized by the leadership team (C-Suite and Heads of...)
• Develop dashboards and reporting to share the technical health of device experiences development and progress.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks to ensure successful product launches that meet user needs and business goals.

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience, with a strong preference for candidates with diverse professional backgrounds.
• 10+ years of experience in Program Management for multi-platform product development space.
• Experience in leading complex, cross-functional projects, regardless of industry or technical domain.
• Lead teams with a focus on inclusive collaboration and consensus-building.
• Proven track record for understanding and communicating technical/engineering issues to various stakeholders.
• You enjoy working in a dynamic environment, the power of consensus building, being able to pivot and find success and leading the team towards the company's vision/goals
• At the end of the day, we encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including those who have taken non-traditional career paths, to apply.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on 0-1 products and cutting-edge technology in the AI space, with a self-starting attitude toward creating processes and advocating for the importance of new tools, processes, and methods.
• Ability to manage projects that span multiple domains, with comfort in shifting between technical and strategic challenges across software, hardware, and cloud services.
• Experience in developing features where defining metrics and methodologies to measure product performance was required.
• Proven ability to create test strategies and drive initiatives to improve software quality and testing processes.
• Familiarity with industry trends and directions.
• Strong skills as a consensus builder, diplomat, and influencer within a software organization.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and a passion for tackling unique challenges and opportunities in software development for consumer products.
• Excitement about the opportunity and responsibility to collaborate with teams across a full stack, from user interface to low-level infrastructure layer.
• Desire to work in a rapid development environment, with the ability to remain flexible and thrive amid continuous development.
• Passion, inspiration, and creativity.
• Familiarity with multiple product and project development disciplines, methodologies, and dependencies, and an understanding of how they interact.
• Experience in shipping web experiences in the B2C space.
• Desire to work in a collaborative environment where honesty and accountability are paramount.
• Ability to drive tasks independently and effectively escalate and communicate issues and needs.
• Love of complexity and solving hard problems.
• Personal commitment to adhering to dates and timelines

Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

• The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills
• At Humane, you'll enjoy benefits that include health & wellness and work/life balance offerings. Our portfolio of benefits include: comprehensive healthcare insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a 401K plan
• Humane employees also enjoy generous paid time off and leave programs, commuter benefits, team events, snacks and other perks

Why Humane?

• Develop cutting edge technologies in a creative and innovative environment
• Imagine new opportunities in areas that matter and will impact the world you live in
• Be a part of a high performing team of the world's best innovators and executors
• Flexible work arrangements to support you in working in the way that you work best
• Our values: trust truth +joy

At Humane, diversity is important to us.

Humane is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws ("protected characteristics" or "protected categories"). Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and ordinances, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Humane, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.