Title: Safety Operations Program Manager
Summary: The Safety Operations Program Manager will be a critical member of the Zoox Operational Safety team, focused on ensuring that safety investigations and technical safety discussions are effectively documented, tracked, and driven to closure. This role is responsible for capturing key discussions and decisions, managing the execution of action items across cross-functional teams including Autonomy, System Engineering, Release Management, and Fleet Operations, and maintaining the documentation and reporting infrastructure that supports the team's work. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple workstreams, while proactively identifying opportunities to improve team processes.
Responsibilities:
Manage execution and completion of action items (e.g. ZATs) identified during technical safety discussions, collaborating with cross-functional teams including Autonomy, SDMA, and Fleet Operations.
Create and manage closeout reports for safety investigations, using AI tools where applicable.
Manage Operational Safety team documentation, creating new documents and templates when needed, and owning modifications when required.
Provide support as a minute-taker, on an as needed basis. Responsibilities include capturing key discussions, actions, and decisions in meetings led by Safety Operations.
Support process improvement initiatives, and identify opportunities for increased efficiencies across team workflows.
Qualifications:
Bachelor s degree with 6-8 years of experience in a technical program management role
Strong organizational and time management skills to handle multiple overlapping projects on any given week
Ability to synthesize and distill technical information and concepts into written communications (including during live discussions), with a sensitivity to language
Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Google Suite, Slack, AI Tools, etc.
Bonus Qualifications:
Previous experience in the automotive and/or AV industry
Proficiency in AI Tools and application thereof to manual processes