Chief of Staff, Vehicle Platform & Hardware
- Partner with the VP and Technology Group leadership team to define, operationalize, and continuously improve the organization’s operating rhythm.
- Help drive execution on critical technical programs by identifying long-pole dependencies, unblocking progress, and tracking key milestones.
- Facilitate alignment between Hardware, Autonomy, and Commercial teams to ensure platform readiness and technical integration success.
- Manage leadership meetings, quarterly reviews, and cross-functional communications to maintain clarity, momentum, and accountability.
- Anticipate risks and proactively drive solutions across engineering and partner interfaces.
- Serve as a thought partner to the VP on organization structure, resourcing, and strategic priorities.
- Help define and track critical milestones that tie hardware and vehicle integration deliverables directly to company-level objectives.
- Support strategy, hardware partnerships, and cross-functional execution with Autonomy, Operations, and OEM partners.
- Act as a connective layer between the technical teams and business functions, ensuring engineering work accelerates Nuro’s commercialization roadmap.
- Work with TPMs and functional leads to maintain clear visibility into critical-path deliverables and readiness checkpoints.
- Coordinate with external partners and vendors to ensure timelines, integration requirements, and deliverables remain on track.
- Translate technical updates into executive-ready insights and communications for senior leadership and Board audiences.
- Partner with the People and Recruiting teams to support headcount planning, talent reviews, and engagement initiatives.
- Help foster a culture of operational rigor, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Encourage alignment, clarity, and consistency across geographically distributed teams.
- 7+ years of experience in consulting or technical leadership across hardware engineering, engineering operations, with prior exposure to complex technical organizations preferred.
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand and contextualize discussions across hardware, mechanical, and electrical domains.
- Exceptional analytical, organizational, and project management skills with a proven ability to translate strategy into execution.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to influence and align without direct authority.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving problems in high-stakes, cross-functional environments.
- Track record of identifying inefficiencies, driving process improvements, and increasing leadership leverage.
- Experience in automotive, robotics, or manufacturing environments.
- Familiarity with hardware and software integration and new product introduction (NPI).
- Experience supporting VP or C-level executives in fast-moving or scaling technical organizations.
- Prior experience building cross-functional operating systems and leadership cadences.
- Top academic or professional background in engineering, consulting, business, or related disciplines.
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