Sr. Associate - Program Operations

About Us

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world. The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Role Summary

Program Operations exists to help RV Tech execute well across every program — planning, tracking, and governing the work from concept through serial production. You'll own and evolve the data and analytics systems that turn scattered operational signals into decision-ready insight — the platforms and models leadership uses to understand capacity, cost, and resourcing across programs, plus the financial-grade reporting that funding and planning decisions depend on. You won't just analyze these processes; you'll build and scale the tools that run them.

Responsibilities

• Develop the Business Model capacity and cost.
• Drive headcount modeling, resourcing scenarios, and estimation that leadership uses to decide whether teams can absorb new work.
• Produce decision-ready insight.
• Build reporting that surfaces anomalies, completion, and distributions — so leaders manage exceptions, not blanket reviews.
• Translate for executives.
• Turn requirements into shipped tools.
• Automate the manual.

Qualifications

• Business judgment and translation.
• Ability to take an idea and produce a working tool or prototype yourself — through hands-on coding (e.g., Python/SQL, scripting, APIs) and/or skillful use of AI-assisted development tools to build, test, and iterate.

Total Rewards

• Full-time positions include base salary, eligibility for an annual performance bonus, and eligibility for equity.
• In addition to base salary, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies offers benefits tailored to the local market.

Candidate Data Privacy

• Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes ("Candidate Personal Data").
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• Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) record keeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.