Senior Data Project Manager

Rhoda Ai
Mountain View

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with cross-functional leadership experience in robotics or AI data working in high-performance hardware and software environments.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years of leading technical programs across engineering and operations teams
    — “5+ years leading complex technical programs across engineering/R&D and operations.
  • Individuals who can act as a technical bridge between research, engineering, and operations teams
    — “Turn approved robot data requirements into reliable, scalable programs, serving as the technical bridge between Research/Engineering and Data Operations.
  • Candidates with experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or AI data systems
    — “Robotics, autonomous vehicle, AI data, or hardware-software systems experience preferred.

Things to consider

  • This role demands ownership of program schedules, risks, and issue tracking without direct authority
    — “Own program schedule, dependencies, risks, blockers, issue tracking, and escalation.
  • Candidates must be comfortable with ambiguous, fast-changing programs
    — “Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguous, fast-changing programs.

How to stand out

  • Emphasize experience in translating data requirements into structured execution plans
    — “Translate data requirements into executable plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, and timelines.
  • Highlight cross-functional leadership successes, particularly in vendor coordination
    — “Coordinate across Research, Hardware, Software, Data Infra, and Operations, including vendor dependencies through the Data Operations team.
  • Showcase hands-on problem-solving with data quality or hardware readiness challenges
    — “Dive into technical and operational details when needed, including data quality issues, hardware readiness, and cross-functional bottlenecks impacting data delivery.
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • successful delivery of complex technical programs
  • established scalable processes for cross-functional teams
Typical background
5+ years in technical program managementstrong technical literacy across hardware, software, and data systems

Skills & requirements

Required

Program ManagementTechnical Project ManagementData SystemsRoboticsAutonomous VehicleAI DataHardware-software Systems

Preferred

Robotics Experience

Stack & domain

LeadershipCommunicationRoboticsData SystemsHardware-software Systems

About the role

Original posting from Rhoda Ai via Ashby

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

MISSION

Turn approved robot data requirements into reliable, scalable programs, serving as the technical bridge between Research/Engineering and Data Operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Translate data requirements into executable plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, and timelines.
  • Drive programs from pilot, scale-up, production, to delivery.
  • Coordinate across Research, Hardware, Software, Data Infra, and Operations, including vendor dependencies through the Data Operations team.
  • Own program schedule, dependencies, risks, blockers, issue tracking, and escalation.
  • Establish a clear single source of truth through dashboards, documentation, and operating cadences.
  • Build scalable processes for how Research, Engineering, and Operations work together.
  • Dive into technical and operational details when needed, including data quality issues, hardware readiness, and cross-functional bottlenecks impacting data delivery.
  • Ensure data programs are delivered on time, at the required quality, and at the required scale.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 5+ years leading complex technical programs across engineering/R&D and operations.
  • Strong technical literacy across hardware, software, data systems, or robotics.
  • Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguous, fast-changing programs.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and ability to drive execution without direct authority.
  • Hands-on mindset; comfortable investigating details rather than only managing schedules.
  • Robotics, autonomous vehicle, AI data, or hardware-software systems experience preferred.

Source: Rhoda Ai careers (Ashby)

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