Technical Project Manager, Sanctuary AI
Customer Projects
+ Equity stake
Human-like intelligence robotics
Job no longer available
Human-like intelligence robotics
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity stake
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots at a time that is right to make it happen.
Role
Who you are
- Degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent work experience in a related technical field
- Proven ability to work efficiently to deliver large projects with multiple stakeholders, tight timelines, and evolving priorities
- Expert understanding of project management practices, Agile methodology, and innovation processes
- Experience managing research and development projects
- A track record of technical excellence and successful project outcomes
- Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies
- Excellent and adaptive verbal and written communication skills
- Familiarity with cross functional team project management
- Excellent time management and multitasking skills
- Adapt to ambiguous situations and generate clarity
- Ability to analyze and problem solve complex challenges
- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
- Customer-centric mindset
- Optimistic listening and conflict resolution capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to influence others without authority
- Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity
- Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
- Obsession with bringing human-like intelligence to machines
What the job involves
- Sanctuary AI is looking to hire a Technical Project Manager - Customer Projects
- As a versatile team member, you'll play a crucial role in the planning, execution, and completion of strategic customer projects
- Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, our new Technical Project Manager’s responsibilities will span various crucial areas, ensuring the success and efficiency of our customer projects
- Oversee the full lifecycle of complex customer projects, ensuring timely delivery and quality standards
- Facilitate sprint planning, maintain schedules, and deliver weekly progress reports
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, ensuring timely completion and budget adherence
- Communicate critical project status updates and risks to stakeholders promptly and effectively, employing appropriate formats to ensure clear understanding and facilitate informed decision-making
- Define success criteria and metrics on the project/initiatives to help software development teams make data-driven decisions
- Gather and articulate requirements meticulously to craft realistic execution plans, promoting clarity and alignment across teams
- Drive cross-functional communication and collaboration to meet program requirements, fostering a cohesive team environment and ensuring successful project outcomes
- Collaborate with customers, technical experts, and other stakeholders, to achieve program objectives and drive collective success
- Prepare and present comprehensive program reports to internal and external stakeholders, delivering actionable insights and fostering transparency and trust
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by collecting feedback and lessons learned from each project
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Sanctuary has set itself the ambitious task of developing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, intending to complement the human labor market - and eventually helping humans settle in outer space. Its robots are modelled on the size and shape of humans, and their cognitive architecture is based on the subsystems of the human brain. The hope is that this puts the so-far elusive artificial general intelligence (AGI) in closer reach.
It’s a challenging mission, but the Sanctuary team have remarkable expertise and experience. Before Sanctuary, the founders launched deep tech robotics company Kindred with backing from the likes of Google and Bloomberg Beta. Whilst it was eventually bought out by Ocado, Sanctuary was designed to pick up where Kindred’s early research left off.
Some critics suggest that Sanctuary’s technology isn’t anything new - just yet. Nor has any company promising AGI (including Tesla) offered up material results. There’s also some question as to whether AGI, technologically glamorous though it may be, is better than highly specialised systems. If it can be done, however, there’s no doubt it’ll prove a remarkable deep-tech breakthrough.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2022
$30m
GRANT
Mar 2022
$58.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $88.5m
Company values
- We are Mission-Drive: With one objective: to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. Mission success is the only arrow on the compass that guides our work. To be first, we must act with unwavering urgency, in everything we do
- We Rise to the Challenge: What we are doing has never been done before. We embrace the magnitude of our mission and face it head-on, with tenacity, speed, and positive determination. We do whatever it takes to ensure we hit our milestones on the road to mission success
- We Row Together, We Win Together: No matter how great our facilities or capital, we will always maintain the humble mentality of a small, wooden rowboat. Our strength comes from forcefully rowing together towards the same common goal, with each one of us pulling their weight. We stay steady on the course as a team–impervious to distractions and relentless against waves–to reach our destination
- We Act Responsibly: In everything that we do, we take matters of safety, security, confidentiality, privacy, and trust very seriously
- We are a Sanctuary: For our employees and for the future. We are a group of technologically-aligned people, working together with high principles and utmost confidentiality within our Sanctuary. When we successfully achieve our mission, we will provide a Sanctuary for generations to come, with solutions to many of the greatest threats to our way of life
Company HQ
Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, BC
Articles
Founders
Geordie Rose
(CEO)A Doctor of Theoretical Physics, who subsequently founded and served as CTO of quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Systems, before moving on to co-found Kindred.ai.
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