Product Integration Lead

Aurora Innovation•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone. At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn . Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. The Product Integration Lead is an influential leadership position within the Product & Program Management team. This person is responsible for coordination and delivery of new Aurora Driver features and performance improvements across software releases. The Product Integration Lead must have a strong technical background, deep understanding of customer needs, superior communication skills, and ability to manage complex dependencies across programs and workstreams.

Requirements

Strong technical background
Deep understanding of customer needs
Superior communication skills
Ability to manage complex dependencies across programs and workstreams

Responsibilities

Partner closely with Business Development, Product Strategy, Engineering, and Operations to prioritize quarterly business outcomes based on customer needs.
Translate business outcomes into software-wide objectives.
Initiate and execute planning (in collaboration with team of Product/Program Managers) to conclude which quarterly business outcomes can be achieved based on bottoms-up engineering plans.
Define the scope of quarterly software releases in terms of new features and performance improvements.
Aggregate status and risks across all cross-functional programs to project what can be achieved in the upcoming release.
Partner closely with Data Science, Business Development, Product Strategy, and Engineering to establish and track progress against key metrics.
Ensure the organization has a clear understanding of how these metrics translate to customer success, profitability, and operational efficiency.
Produce artifacts that communicate the state of software execution work for consumption by the broad software organization as well as partner teams like MarComm, Safety, Operations, Business Development, Investor Relations, and more.
Synthesize and communicate status and risks to senior leadership.
Present key tradeoffs and drive decisions.
Identify and manage key dependencies in delivering customer outcomes. This includes work needed to deliver onboard software, offboard tools, customer experience targets, safety targets, and operational SOPs.
Partner closely with Product Operations to forecast development fleet demand and serve as the arbiter for tradeoffs.
Have a strong handle on key risks in delivering business outcomes, and decide which risks are appropriate to escalate to senior leadership.
Provide mitigation strategies and specific areas where help is needed.
Frame tradeoffs associated with the risk.
Serve as a key thought leader within the Product & Program Management team and across partner teams like Design and Product Strategy.
Develop best-in-class artifacts for product requirements definition, program reporting, decision making, etc.
Serve as a mentor for more junior product & program managers.