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.
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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.
Role Summary
We are looking for engineering manager who will lead the talented individuals and mobile application development team whose primary focus is to build the consumer facing Rivian mobile application. This role will impact future vehicle and software technologies, roadmaps across the company as well as helping us minimize our carbon footprint.
Responsibilities
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- Establish and lead technology decisions & development implementations by partnering with product, programs, development, architecture teams and stake holders. \n
- Ensure project deadlines are met for product launches, feature upgrades, and maintenance phases. \n
- Ensure the best in class software development practices, coding rules, reviews, test and release methodology and as well as quality and performance of product features to specifications. \n
- Define key metrics and KPIs and implement them to ensure maximum productivity, quality, visibility and predictability for the organization. \n
- Communicate and support effectively with the various internal teams on dependencies and schedule. \n
- Hire, ramp up, manage and maintain highly performing engineering team and culture. \n
- Organize, attend and participate in scrums and stakeholder meetings. \n
- Develop and be accountable for critical vendor partnerships needed for success. \n
Qualifications
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- 8+ years of combined experience with software development and management experience together with large scale consumer electronic, automotive and IOT based mobile product launches to the market. \n
- 5+ years of experience of managing development teams of ten and more. \n
- \nExtensive working experience with remote teams. \n \n
- \n7+ years of experience of managing native iOS and Android mobile application development (React Native is a big plus). \n \n
- Track record to set up engineering team and demonstrate excellent leadership of technology development & ramp; deployment into major projects. \n
- Knowledge of Apple’s and Android design principles, technologies, development and application interface guidelines. \n
- Familiarity with the best in class Software and mobile app development practices. \n
- \nProficient in continuous integration and code versioning tools including Git, Bitbucket and others. \n \n
- \nExperience on technical and software project management of practices (Agile - Scrum, Hybrid, Kanban, Waterfall). \n \n
- Product management experience, stakeholder management, vendor management
are a plus (including product roadmap development and user story development). \n - \nDeep understanding of user-friendly, immersive, reactive user interface development. \n \n
- Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to collaboratively work with and influence cross-functional. \n
Equal Opportunity
\nRivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.
\nCandidate Data Privacy
\nRivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
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Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.