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
You will join our Vehicle Engineering team, where we design, develop and build hardware systems and complete vehicles to run our autonomy software on real vehicles, in the real world
Your Role
As a Project Manager you will play a key role in coordinating all aspects of hardware and mechanical system design, development and build{{:}}
- Managing, delivering and reporting on assigned projects, throughout the project lifecycle (Prince or IPMA qualified)
- Effectively communicating internally across technical teams, non-technical teams and project stakeholders up to staff engineering levels
- Effectively communicating externally with customer teams to communicate project progress
- Understanding project scope, ensuring delivery against milestones, and effectively surfacing conflicting delivery requirements
- Identifying vehicle engineering resource requirements and projecting availability, scheduling activity appropriately
- Working with procurement to control project BOM status, tracking spend, highlighting risk and opportunity and report on metrics in MBR
- Highlighting and managing dependencies, both within and outside of vehicle engineering projects
- Effective risk and change management
- Ensuring internal and external compliance with business procedures & processes
- Leading retrospectives/lessons learnt reviews
- Participating in process development activity with the team
- Identifying resource gaps and working with service teams in People / Talent to ensure appropriate headcount for deliverables
Requirements
What you need to succeed{{:}}
- Experience in a project management role, with a bias towards physical product development > software
- Experience of using and maintaining JIRA
- A formal project management qualification - Prince/ IPMA/ APM
Extra kudos{{:}}
- Experience in a prototype vehicle build environment
- A background in mechanical / hardware engineering
The Candidate Journey{{:}} Multi-Step and Two-Way
No-one wants to feel like a square peg in a round hole, so this process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. The various stages give you every opportunity to show your unique strengths and qualities, and enables each of us to establish if we're a good fit for the other. If the fit is good and you're selected, you're then in a position to do great work and thrive, which is what everyone wants.
Benefits
Compensation and Benefits
We provide{{:}}
- Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
- Company share programme
- Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
- Core benefits of market leading private healthcare, life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, alongside a company paid health cash plan (including gym discounts)
- A flexible £2,000 (pro-rata) benefits fund to spend on additional benefits of your choice, including tech scheme and cycle to work benefits
- 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
Our Culture
Diversity is a marathon not a sprint! It is a journey with no destination. We are on a mission to unlock the benefits of self-driving technology to every person and organisation on the planet. We are creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work which put simply is the right thing to do. We hire and nurture those we can learn from, valuing diversity and the innovation that this drives.
We apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. 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.
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.
Why become an Oxbot?
Our team of experts in computer science, AI, robotics and machine learning is world-class, and together they're solving the most exciting and important technological challenges of our times.
But as well as smarts, Oxbots have heart. Our diverse, multi-cultural crew is guided by a shared vision to bring the myriad benefits of autonomy to our customers and partners. And in a company that celebrates uniqueness as much as skill and experience, they do it with energy, conviction and a healthy dose of excitement, too.
If you are bold, creative and hyper skilled, come and create the future of autonomy with us at Oxa.