Senior Program Manager, Validation OperationsActive$132K–$198K

The opportunity

Own the systems that make validation operations accurate, scalable, and ready for Nuro’s next stage of growth.

What you'll do

  • Support critical validation programs: Partner with Autonomy, Systems, and Data Platform Engineering to deliver the operational support and data that validation and expansion efforts depend on.

  • Set the quality standard: Define metrics, sampling approaches, workflows, and operating mechanisms that enable consistent, scalable data quality.

  • Diagnose and fix what’s broken: Audit live workflows, query databases, and trace accuracy or pipeline failures to their root cause, then drive measurable corrective action.

  • Lead global operations: Own the offshore vendor relationship, including budget, capacity, performance, and quality outcomes.

  • Drive improvement: Lead adoption of improved operational practices through clear documentation, stakeholder engagement, pilot programs, and change management.

  • Build the team: Lead a small in-house team, strengthen oversight, and create processes that evolve with Nuro’s needs.

What they're looking for

  • Align teams around action: Translate complex operational and technical issues into clear recommendations for Engineering, Operations, and leadership.
  • + years of program management experience embedded with software validation and/or AI/ML operations
  • Quality-obsessed approach to program management: energized by finding what is broken, not just by shipping on time.
  • Deep familiarity with data pipelines and labeling ecosystems, including: annotation workflows, quality sampling, taxonomy design, and inter-annotator agreement