The Applications Engineering team at Tesla aims to lead an enterprise-wide approach to identify, prioritize, and successfully execute a technology portfolio of initiatives/projects that drive innovation, growth, and alignment with Tesla's strategic goals. We are looking for a Technical Program Manager who can lead and is willing to undertake an insane challenge of building out organization level strategy to prioritize and lead critical engineering programs within the Applications Engineering domain. At Tesla we look to engineer everything in-house; so come help us scale our homegrown Tesla OS platform and deliver experiences that delight our customers and internal employees. Finance, Invoicing, payments, accounting experience is helpful, but more importantly, someone with a strong bias for action, technical background and great stakeholder management skills.
* Work on introducing software engineering products/features into order to cash flow, finance, accounting and service/ownership flow at a large scale
* Work with business stakeholders and Application Engineering team(s) to develop elegant, efficient solutions and product capabilities that can support 10X growth
* Work from inception to launch of new products and in-house platforms
* Consistent record of system streamlining, cost reduction, project management and engineering design required
* Tackle complex and ambiguous problems that span numerous systems and organizations
* Drive engineering initiatives with product, engineers, and designers
* Integrate analytics, data science and research into your methodology
* Ruthlessly prioritize and maximize productivity in a constantly changing environment of shifting priorities
* Influence without reporting structure & operate without guidance
* Resolve conflict productively across teams
* 5+ years of Technical Program or Technical Product Management experience working with multiple cross functional teams
* 7+ years of experience in technology industry
* 2+ years of public accounting experience preferred
* Degree in Computer Science is a huge plus
* Experience managing end-to-end product deployment from concept, development, and successful launch
* Experience leading programs with full customer journey impact covering program planning, risk assessment, cost, and delivery
* Proven ability to own the product roadmap and schedules with a track record of delivering projects on-time
* Demonstrated communication and influencing skills at all levels of the organization and across technical and non-technical teams