Who are we

Oxa is enabling the transition to self-driving vehicles through an initial focus on the most commercially advanced sector; the autonomous shuttling of goods and people.

We are home to some of the world’s leading experts on autonomous vehicles, creating solutions such as Oxa Driver, equipping vehicles with full self-driving functionality; Oxa MetaDriver, using Generative AI to accelerate and assure the safety of deployments; and Oxa Hub, a set of cloud-based offerings for autonomous fleet management. Our technology is being deployed across the UK and the U.S, and we’re partnering with a fast-growing ecosystem of operators, vehicle OEMs and equipment makers serving autonomous transportation globally as it advances.

Based in Oxford, and with offices in Canada and the U.S, Oxa was founded in 2014 and is  growing rapidly (350+ ‘Oxbots’ to date). Our purpose is to change the way the Earth moves, through an uncompromising focus on safety, efficiency and explainability of our AI approaches. The company has attracted $225 million from leading investors so far, with $140 million raised in the last Series C funding round in January 2023.

Your Team:

Our Program Manager will be joining our Solutions team, who are responsible for bridging the connection between customers and our commercial and product engineering teams. They co-ordinate the delivery and deployment of autonomy solutions in the field across an array of industries, working at pace, with passion and drive.

Your Role:

• You will be accountable for program management for a number of solutions which may span different customers, different kinds of industries (on-highway or off-highway), different vehicle types, and with different requirements (e.g. a customer may require us to deliver new capabilities, or we may need to deliver new capabilities to drive on a particular route).
• You will be responsible for working with solutions leaders to prepare and maintain roadmaps and resource plans, actively managing dependencies, risks, issues and commitments.
• You will ensure that we are able to re-plan efficiently when dates and circumstances inevitably change, tracking budgets and drive accountability in teams to help us to meet estimates.
• Working in unison with B2B customers where we need you to interface with their program management functions.
• You will have the ability to prepare plans, roadmaps and other program management materials as needed, actively seeking out program gaps through quantitative methods and intuition.
• Ownership and be responsibility will be taken to iterate quickly when/if gaps are discovered with appropriate teams to come up with a joint solution. You will be proactive and often won’t need prompting to find a solution.

Requirements

What you will need to succeed:

• Experience of program management in a large-scale, complex domain. 
• Experience of program managing complex software delivery work is essential, program managing where there are physical aspects (hardware integration, physically moving hardware and people to locations as needed, and procurement).  
• Able to actively manage a plan, working with leaders to re-plan and resolve resource conflicts as necessary. Don’t just “report the weather”. 
• Exposure to managing plans that need to change, this will align to where we are working on a range of initiatives from high uncertainty R&D through to commercial delivery. 
• Sound ability and willingness to balance between appropriate rigour and pragmatism.
• The ability to build program process where it’s needed in order to help us deliver for customers.
• Experience of bridging across program management in an organisation, plus the interface to program management within the third parties they support.

Extra Kudos if you have:

• There is a preference (but not a requirement) for candidates with experience of mobility e.g. autonomy, or at least products with a hardware element.

Benefits

We provide:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
• An outstanding £2,000 flexible benefits including private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, EAP, group income protection
• A salary exchange pension plan
• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• A pet-friendly office environment
• Safe assigned spaces for team members with individual and diverse needs

We promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day. Oxa is proud to be an inclusive organisation and, as such, we require all team members within our recruitment process to understand and deploy best practices focused on de-biasing the whole recruitment cycle.We also apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. Please share with us any individual needs or reasonable adjustments we may need to make in advance of commencing the interview process with us.

Learn more about our culture here.