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Senior Program Manager, Trucking

Waabi· Commercial – Commercial Products
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$140k - $180kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Program Manager to own and align the single integrated commercialization plan for trucking, serving as the critical integration layer between truck supply, customer commitments, expansion efforts, site activations, and autonomy capabilities. Responsible for the integrated commercialization roadmap, weekly operating cadence, and executive-ready updates to drive scalable, cross-functional execution of Waabi’s trucking commercialization from pilots to large-scale deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own the integrated roadmap that ties customer commitments, OEM truck supply, autonomy and ODD readiness, lane and site activation, Mission Control, operations readiness and Account Management launches to dates, with the dependencies between them made explicit.
  • Maintain the honest picture: the critical path, the slips, the risks and the decisions needed, surfaced early enough to act on and framed for the people who have to decide.
  • Lead the execution of key company milestones involving multiple departments at Waabi.
  • Run the operating cadence, including a weekly cross-functional Truck Program meeting.
  • Help establish repeatable frameworks, procedures, and decision loops that allow fast and efficient scale.
  • Produce executive-ready updates and program artifacts.
  • Communicate clearly with technical, operational, commercial and executive audiences that value first-principles thinking.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in program or product leadership in a complex technical and operational environment (autonomous vehicles, automotive, aerospace, robotics, aviation, defense, logistics or other physical-world deployment).
  • Track record of integrating programs across teams you did not control, in a business with hardware, software, safety and operations in the loop.
  • Enough technical fluency to understand why an autonomy or hardware milestone slipped and whether the recovery plan is credible, without needing to be the engineer.
  • Separates facts, assumptions and risks in how you write and speak; comfortable telling senior people something they do not want to hear, early, with options.
  • Builds the minimum structure that works and removes or upgrades it when it stops working.
  • Executive-grade verbal and written communication; most of this role's influence happens in documents and in how a problem is framed.
  • Set direction for a program others execute, with no direct reports, and being accountable for the outcome anyway.

Skills

Required:Integrated program managementCross-functional leadershipExecutive communication

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
  • Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
  • Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Waabi

pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks.

Waabi is pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks. We developed a next-generation approach leveraging an end-to-end interpretable and verifiable AI model that’s powered by the industry's most realistic neural simulator. This dramatically reduces the development time and resources needed to bring self-driving vehicles to public roads — safely and at scale.

Autonomous trucksPhysical AIneural simulatorAI modelself-driving vehicles
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