Sr. Technical Product Manager, Cell Software

Tesla is re-thinking how batteries are made from the ground up. We're designing new factories, new equipment, new processes, and new software to rapidly scale battery manufacturing, globally. The primary bottleneck to Tesla's future expansion (and the transition to sustainable transport and energy storage) is our ability to produce and procure batteries - that's why we're innovating in-house, with our collection of world-class engineers, to redefine the industry. Software, data, and automation all play a huge part in this strategy.
We've built software from scratch with a nimble and high performing team to meet the specific needs of Tesla's rapid battery manufacturing scale up. This software tracks every component of the cell manufacturing process and acts as the brain of the entire cell factory. It's key to ensuring batteries are made safely and for understanding how to improve processes. This platform is the conduit for data coming from the line, and it is part of the goal to have more data about battery manufacturing, end to end, than any other company.
The Cell Software team is responsible for building software solutions that allow the company to redefine manufacturing and production. Our software enables users to virtually control the manufacturing process and machines, interact with and track the flow of production material, and get quick and powerful insights about the line. Our UI is the place to get quick feedback about the state of material, investigate irregularities, and set line configurations.
Our software stack is built on top of React, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, and other related platforms. With a sophisticated fault-tolerant, distributed architecture that collects real-time data from the manufacturing line.
We're looking for a Technical Product Manager to build out the interfaces and tools that engineers (Process, Quality, Controls, Manufacturing), managers, and thousands of operators interact with daily, at factories around the world. Your goal will be to deeply understand the users, processes, and integrations of Software in Tesla's 4680 Cell Manufacturing line. Then leverage that context to partner with software engineers in ideating and designing improvements. You will own solutions end-to-end -- from identifying and prioritizing improvement opportunities, through to feature design, deployment, integration, and customer feedback.
The ideal candidate is excited to deep dive into manufacturing, thrives in multi-disciplinary environments, is comfortable understanding software systems, has a high sense of ownership, and has a bias for action.

Responsibilities

• Build up customer context and relationships to identify software gaps, risks, and opportunities
• Own key relationships with stakeholders to ensure we are on track to deliver the right features when needed
• Represent the Cell Software team in meetings with key stakeholders, including Sr. Manager and above level leaders
• Keep engineering team organized, motivated, and focused on our goals - align the vectors
• Drive the design strategy of UI and integrations that are intuitive to use and navigate
• Whiteboard through problems together with software engineers and manufacturing partners
• Example projects include improving our ability to track cells going into vehicles and travelling between factories across the world. Tools to mass manage quality non-conformances of cell factory material. "Fleet" recipe management and dashboard for machines across cell factory

Requirements

• Evidence of exceptional ability
• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience working in an organizational role such as Product or Program management
• Must be able to understand complex integrated systems and their dependencies
• Strong organizational skills along with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and shift priorities according to business needs
• Easily and confidently communicate with executive management
• Comfortable reading code to understand what it does - no previous development experience required
• (Bonus) Familiarity with querying and analyzing data SQL, Python, Jupyter, Dataframes
• (Bonus) UI Design and experience with design tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Illustrator)

Compensation and Benefits
Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program