Project Manager, Emulation

The Project Manager, Emulation

This role ensures that emulation work is clearly defined, properly prioritized, and executed with discipline, transparency, and predictability. The Project Manager serves as the central coordinator among stakeholders, developers, and leadership, translating incoming project needs into structured plans with clear requirements, ownership, milestones, and completion criteria.

Job Functions

• Own the intake process for all emulation requests, ensuring requests are clearly defined, scoped, and aligned with organizational priorities.
• Translate stakeholder needs into structured work, including epics, user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and actively manage the emulation backlog, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and readiness of work.
• Cookordination with technical leads and engineers to ensure work is actionable and properly sized.
• Plan and track project execution across multiple concurrent emulation efforts.
• Provide clear, consistent, and evidence-based progress reporting to stakeholders and leadership.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and gaps early; proactively drive resolution to avoid delivery issues.
• Ensure projects have defined milestones, timelines, and completion criteria.
• Facilitate team ceremonies as needed (e.g., backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews).
• Coordinate across teams and external stakeholders to manage dependencies and alignment.
• Support release readiness by ensuring requirements, expectations, and deliverables are aligned.
• Organize and support progress demos, stakeholder reviews, and delivery checkpoints.
• Drive disciplined execution and follow-through across all emulation workstreams.
• Ensure backlog and active work align with broader goals of improving delivery speed, quality, and predictability.

Required Qualifications And Preferred Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field. Equivalent experience may be considered.
• 3 years of experience in project management, delivery coordination, or technical program management.
• Proven experience in project or program management within a technical or engineering environment.
• Strong ability to translate ambiguous requests into well-defined, structured work.
• Demonstrated experience managing backlogs, prioritization, and delivery tracking.
• Excellent organizational, planning, and execution discipline.
• Able to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.
• Strong communication skills across technical teams and leadership.
• Experience facilitating Agile or flow-based delivery practices.
• Familiarity with DevOps, software delivery lifecycle, or technical product development.
• Exposure to emulation, simulation, or sing platforms is preferred.
• Able to identify and manage dependencies, risks, and cross-team coordination.
• Strong bias toward clarity, ownership, and completion of work.
• Must be eligible to work in the USA long term without sponsorship.

About Toyota Automated Logistics

Toyota Automated Logistics is your global partner for integrated warehouse automation. Our team combines the talents of Bastian Solutions, Vanderlande's warehousing business and viastore under one brand to deliver scalable systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services. In addition to exciting work at a growing company, we offer the following benefits:

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a company match
• Vacation / Holiday Pay
• Paid Volunteer time off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Professional Associations, Conferences and Subscriptions
• Company Meetings & Events

Toyota Automated Logistics does not work with outside recruiting agencies. No solicitation phone calls please.