Sr Manager, EPC Software & Controls TPM

About Rivian Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

Summary Rivian is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Electric Power Conversion Software and Controls Technical Program Management. This leader will oversee the planning and execution of embedded software and control programs that enable Rivian’s power-conversion products, while directly managing a team of Technical Program Managers. The role sits at the intersection of software and controls engineering, power electronics, systems engineering, vehicle integration, product development, and program leadership. The successful candidate will create clarity across a portfolio of products and vehicle programs, establish a reliable plan of record, drive technical and programmatic decisions, and ensure that software and controls deliverables are ready for integration, validation, release, launch, and sustaining support. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can zoom out to shape an organization and roadmap, while also engaging deeply enough with embedded software and controls development to identify dependencies, challenge assumptions, and drive resolution of complex issues. The Senior Manager will be expected to lead through influence across functions, develop a high-performing TPM team, and build scalable operating mechanisms that improve predictability and execution across EPC.

Lead the EPC software and controls TPM organization ● Directly manage, coach, and develop EPC software and controls Technical Program Managers; establish clear expectations for ownership, technical depth, communication, and follow-through. ● Define the team’s operating model, roles and responsibilities, coverage model, prioritization framework, and engagement model with software, controls, hardware, systems, test, quality, manufacturing, service, and vehicle program teams. ● Build a culture of technical curiosity, accountability, early risk identification, constructive escalation, and disciplined execution. ● Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and career development for the TPM organization. ● Set a high bar for the quality of program plans, status reporting, decision records, risk management, and technical issue closure. Own portfolio planning and execution ● Own the integrated roadmap and plan of record for EPC embedded software and controls across power electronics, inverter embedded software, motor controls, FuSA, and vehicle integration. ● Translate product, vehicle, systems, and engineering objectives into executable program plans with milestones, dependencies, critical paths, resource assumptions, and measurable outcomes. ● Coordinate planning across the software development lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, implementation, integration, calibration, verification, validation, release, launch, and sustaining activities. ● Establish predictable planning and review cadences that provide working teams and senior leadership with a clear view of progress, risks, decisions, and support needed. ● Balance competing priorities across new product introduction, platform development, sustaining engineering, field issues, technical debt, and future technology development. ● Ensure that software and controls plans remain aligned with hardware maturity, prototype and vehicle build timing, test-asset availability, feature maturity, and production-intent milestones. Drive technical program leadership ● Serve as a senior program