POSITION TITLE: Project Manager, Technical Operations
DEPARTMENT: Prize Operations
REPORTS TO: Sr. Director, Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE
DURATION: Full Time
LOCATION: Playa Vista, CA
X PRIZE FOUNDATION
The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured world headlines when Burt Rutan, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world’s first private vehicle to space to win the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE. The Foundation has since launched the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, and the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The Foundation is creating and conducting competitions in four prize groups: Exploration (Space and Oceans), Life Sciences, Energy & Environment, and Education & Global Development. The Foundation is widely recognized as the leader in fostering innovation through competition. For more information, please visit www.xprize.org.
PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE AUTOMOTIVE X PRIZE
The Foundation’s vision is to transform the world’s energy production and consumption patterns through a series of prizes targeting new models of energy generation, storage, efficiency and use/conservation. These prizes will lead to renewable, clean, safe and attractive alternatives that will benefit all of humanity.
The goal of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE is to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change. Ten million dollars in prizes will be awarded to the teams that win a stage race for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPGe.
The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE will place a major focus on affordability, safety, and the environment. It is about developing real, production-capable cars that consumers want to buy, not science projects or concept cars. This progress is needed because today’s oil consumption is unsustainable and because automotive emissions significantly contribute to global warming and climate change.
For more information about the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, please visit www.progressiveautoxprize.org.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Project Manager, Technical Operations is a key contributor to managing the operations of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The Project Manager’s success is defined by the fidelity of the project plans created by the Project Manager, the clarity of the communications initiated around those plans, the risk mitigation strategies devised and initiated, and the Project Manager’s ability to drive those projects to successful completion. This position primarily supports the Director, Technical Operations, but may be called upon at times to support Senior Director, Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.
The Project Manager, Technical Operations will be responsible for the following, and will assist in other capacities as directed:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
X PRIZE and YOU
We offer a full range of employment benefits including medical, dental, short-term and long-term disability, LIFE, long-term care and an employee assistant program all paid in full by the organization for our regular full-time employees.
The X PRIZE Foundation was established in 1995, attracting leaders in the fields of Life Sciences (Genomics, Medicine, etc), Space, Energy, Environment, Social Welfare, Automotive Technology and more. This position is for someone who will be dedicated to making an impact here at the X PRIZE Foundation and ultimately in the world at large. We are a small and rapidly growing organization, who will value your ideas and advice and are looking for people who will thrive in our fast paced, small group environment.
X PRIZE CULTURE
Our goals are as lofty as they come; where only through entrepreneurial persistence and visionary thinking are solutions to seemingly insurmountable social, technological and environmental issues made possible.
While we externally strive to create a better world, we are internally working to build a culture that supports the kind of passionate, forward thinking people we need to help deliver radical breakthrough solutions to today's most critical and meaningful challenges.
To this end, we are working together to create an environment that fosters learning and growth and encourages creativity, transparency, and diversity.
The X PRIZE FOUNDATION offers a comprehensive compensation package to our employee’s which includes the following benefits:
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Domestic Partner Benefit Coverage
- Year End Discretionary Bonus Program
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- 401K
- FSA
The X PRIZE FOUNDATION is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate in employment. Equal access to employment, services, and programs is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the organization.
Please note: Though submitting a resume to the X PRIZE FOUNDATION implies that you are interested in a position(s), it does not imply that you are an applicant. You are not considered an applicant until you have been contacted directly by a Human Resources representative requesting that you begin the designated application process, which may involve phone and/or in-person interview(s), job-related testing, and background checking.