Head of Product

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

11h

About The Position

Nuro is seeking a Head of Product to spearhead the company’s product strategy and roadmap during its commercialization and scaling phases. This role is highly technical and requires a customer-centric approach, focusing on the intersection of autonomy, AI, robotics, operations, partner integration, and commercial deployment. The Head of Product will report to the co-CEO and be responsible for translating customer needs, partner requirements, technical capabilities, operational constraints, and business priorities into a clear product roadmap. This includes defining what Nuro should build, its significance, and how it facilitates commercial scale. The role involves ensuring Nuro develops the necessary long-term autonomy products for expansion across various customers, geographies, vehicle platforms, and use cases. Additionally, the Head of Product will represent Nuro’s technical capabilities externally and convert commercialization opportunities into actionable internal product requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
15+ years of experience in technology, product management, engineering, or related technical product leadership roles.
10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex technical products.
5+ years of experience leading product teams or product organizations.
Experience working closely with technical teams on complex products, platforms, infrastructure, AI/ML systems, robotics, autonomy, enterprise platforms, or similarly complex technical domains.
Demonstrated experience translating customer, partner, or market requirements into product strategy, technical requirements, and product roadmaps.

Nice To Haves

Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI/ML, mapping, simulation, fleet operations, logistics, mobility, or other complex physical-world systems where safety is paramount.
Experience commercializing technical platforms through external partnerships, enterprise customers, or large-scale ecosystem partners.
Strong understanding of how technical product decisions affect scalability, deployment readiness, customer adoption, and business outcomes.
Experience operating in high-growth, fast-changing, or ambiguous environments.
Track record of building strong product teams and raising the quality of product strategy, roadmap planning, and execution.

Responsibilities

Own Nuro’s product strategy and roadmap, defining and driving the company-level product roadmap for the Nuro Driver and related commercialization products.
Identify the highest-value product bets, clarify tradeoffs, and ensure the roadmap is grounded in customer needs, technical feasibility, operational readiness, and business impact.
Translate customer needs into technical requirements by working closely with customers and partners to understand their technical, operational, and commercial requirements, then translating those needs into clear product requirements and technical priorities.
Ensure teams have the context, clarity, and specifications needed to build the right product for commercialization.
Partner deeply across technical and operational teams, including Autonomy, Systems, Infrastructure, Data, Operations, Program Management, Business Development, and Legal.
Understand what can be built, where constraints exist, what tradeoffs matter, and how product decisions affect autonomy performance, scalability, safety, and deployment readiness.
Shape the commercialization roadmap by defining how Nuro scales autonomy across customers, markets, geographies, operating domains, and vehicle platforms.
Connect the long-term autonomy roadmap with near-term commercial milestones, ensuring Nuro is building toward scalable deployment and customer success.
Serve as an executive product voice, representing the product roadmap across the executive team and with key external partners.
Bring structure to complex decisions, communicate technical and commercial tradeoffs clearly, and ensure product strategy is connected to company strategy.
Build product discipline by establishing the right product operating model for Nuro’s next stage, improving how product requirements are defined, roadmap decisions are made, tradeoffs are surfaced, and how Product, Engineering, Program Management, Operations, and technical teams work together.