Lead, TPL –Cost & Governance

At Scout Motors, you don't just design vehicles- you shape the future of the road. Our Engineering team is where bold ideas meet rigorous execution, building machines that are as durable and capable as the people who drive them. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with brilliant minds across disciplines, turning complex challenges into elegant, scalable solutions that meet the highest standards of safety, performance, and user experience. This is a place where your fingerprints are found on metal – where what you design gets built, driven, and remembered. If you're hungry to engineer something that matters, Scout Motors is where that ambition finds its highest gear. 

In this role, you will lead program execution, issue resolution, and cross-functional alignment across the entire vehicle program, ensuring delivery of complex vehicle systems in line with Scout’s product, timing, quality, and cost targets. You will operate at a vehicle and system integration level, acting as a central driver of transparency, accountability, and structured decision-making across R&D and cross-functional teams.

Become part of an iconic brand that is set to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by achieving the following:

• →Lead the development of bottom‑up cost calculations across vehicle main system teams (MSTs) and departments, ensuring a robust and transparent financial baseline for R&D programs.  
• →Assess and validate the plausibility of budget requests, ensuring alignment between detailed bottom‑up inputs and overall program targets.  
• →Consolidate and communicate approved budgets across MSTs and departments, ensuring clarity of ownership and alignment with program objectives.  
• →Drive cost forecasting activities and track actual spend against approved budgets, ensuring continuous visibility into financial performance.  
• →Perform ongoing budget risk assessments, identifying deviations, trends, and potential overruns based on actuals and forecasts.  
• →Establish and enforce financial governance and accountability, holding MST and functional leaders (including VP-level stakeholders) accountable for budget adherence and financial commitments.  
• →Support resource allocation decisions aligned with project scope, priorities, and timing, ensuring optimal utilization of financial and human resources.  
• →Monitor and track progress against Top Goals and KPIs, ensuring alignment between financial performance and overall program success metrics.  
• →Identify cost-driven risks and trade-offs, supporting data-driven decision-making across engineering, product, and business teams.  
• →Drive cross-functional alignment on financial assumptions, priorities, and recovery actions where budget gaps or risks arise.  
• →Support the preparation of financial reporting, dashboards, and leadership materials for governance forums and executive reviews.  
• →Act as a central coordination point for cost and governance topics, ensuring consistency between planning, execution, and reporting. 

• To be considered for career opportunities at Scout Motors, applicants must be 18 years of age or older. 
• Residing in San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 
• Residing in Los Angeles: Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. 
• Residing in New York City: This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.

Scout Motors is committed to employing a diverse workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, or any other characteristics protected by law. Scout Motors is committed to compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact ScoutAccommodations@scoutmotors.com.