Technical Product Manager, Cell Software
Location
Fremont, CA | United States
Job description
The Role
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 design 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 - Bachelor's degree or higher in an Engineering, Computer Science field, or equivalent experience
- 1+ 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)
- LGBTQ+ care concierge services
- 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
Expected Compensation $92,000 - $300,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
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