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Program Director - Hypercar

Czinger
Torrance, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/9/2025

Czinger Vehicles is redefining the future of automotive design and manufacturing. Founded in 2019, we're pioneering a new era of performance vehicles through revolutionary, proprietary technology that blends human-AI design with sustainable manufacturing. Our flagship 21C hypercar, celebrated as the world's fastest production vehicle and for its record-setting runs at Goodwood Hill Climb, Circuit of the Americas, and Laguna Seca, showcases the innovation behind over 550 patents in AI-driven generative design, materials, and additive manufacturing. With our three core pillars of dominating performance, iconic design, and revolutionary technology, Czinger is at the intersection of deep technology, consumer products, and high-performance branding. We invite you to join our world-class talent in shaping the future of the automotive industry. Here, you'll be part of a groundbreaking journey that pushes the limits of performance, design, technology, and sustainability.

Purpose

The Program Director is responsible for the overall delivery of CZV second Hypercar. Leading within the cross-functional product management domain, the PL will plan, schedule, monitor and control the program as we progress through our rapid development lifecycle. The primary responsibilities of the PL are the upfront planning of the complete program and its derivatives, breaking down the key deliverables into 3-month sprints to guarantee class leading agility in vehicle program development.

The Role

  • Overall program management - developing the key deliverables for the program with the cross functional team and building a plan that delivers to time, cost and quality.
  • Ownership of the program management deliverables.
  • Schedule development and adherence - focusing on leading sprints between gateways (3 months).
  • Risk management - assessing and mitigating program risks.
  • Target balancing - decomposing high level targets into system level targets to enable development to cost, time and quality.
  • Budget and cost control (with support of financial controller).
  • Cross-functional leadership.
  • Program reporting to board level.
  • Change management - both scope and cost, employing expert support from the configuration and change management team.
  • Problem solving - a controlled response to issues to maintain key program milestones.

Basic Qualifications

  • A bachelor's degree in an Engineering field is essential
  • Project management skills are crucial with experience in a project management role within an automotive OEM
  • Experience within the cross functional product management domain through the entire lifecycle of a vehicle program
  • Experience leading people, inspiring energy and optimism for delivery
  • Strategic thinking
  • Expert communicator across all layers of the company
  • Collaborator - experience and consciousness of all disciplines and functions
  • Resilience - comfortable operating with ambiguity and uncertainty
  • Decision making - confidence to both make and recommend informed decisions based on data
  • Customer focus - ensuring that the final product delivers an unsurpassable customer experience
  • Pay Range

    169,740-$233,370 USD

    What We Offer :

  • Holistic Compensation Package : Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.
  • Wellness and Time Off : Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.
  • Comprehensive Health and Wellness : Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.
  • Investment in Growth : We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.
  • Inclusive and Collaborative Environment : Join our inclusive, collaborative, and dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, embracing diversity, and fostering innovation to reduce our footprint by integrating people and technology.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity :

    CZV, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Our positions adhere to all statutory and regulatory requirements. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

    EEO Poster

    In order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected.

    E-Verify : Right to Work

    Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate's eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.

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    Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)

    Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

    No agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.

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