Senior Product Manager - Near Aircraft Tools and Applications

Joby Aviation•San Carlos, CA

About The Position

The Elevate Edge Applications Team (EEAT) builds software for Joby’s physical operations, including charging infrastructure, maintenance tooling, configuration tracking, and operational intelligence. The Senior Product Manager owns one or more near-aircraft product surfaces end to end, from problem definition through launch and adoption. The role involves spending time on the hangar floor and ramp with technicians, maintenance planners, and test engineers, translating their needs into a roadmap for engineering. It is a hands-on product role in a hardware-constrained, regulated environment, with release windows shaped by aircraft availability and real traceability requirements. The Product Manager works as a peer to engineers and designers and connects EEAT with the operations, maintenance, and flight test organizations it serves.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a comparable technical field, or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of product management experience, including ownership of complex internal, enterprise, or operational software.
Strong technical judgment and ability to hold substantive design and architecture conversations with engineers.
Experience conducting user discovery and validation directly with people doing the work.
Excellent written communication skills and experience writing PRDs.
Proven track record of shipping products from concept to launch in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
Experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to accelerate product work.
Excellent problem-solving skills, a proactive mindset, and demonstrated ability to work effectively across teams.
Ability to perform lightweight data analysis, including SQL, to answer product questions.

Nice To Haves

Background in aviation, aerospace, defense, or another regulated industry.
Experience with maintenance, MRO, fleet operations, or asset management software.
Familiarity with hardware-adjacent software, including test systems, telemetry, firmware distribution, or industrial equipment.
Experience in operations, transportation, automotive, energy, or logistics environments.

Responsibilities

Develop deep domain fluency in supported workflows, including maintenance execution, aircraft software configuration, and charging operations.
Write clear product requirements documents (PRDs) and requirements that engineers can build from, and keep them current as the aircraft and operation change.
Partner with designers and engineers through discovery, definition, build, and launch.
Conduct user discovery in the hangar, on the ramp, and in the field, translating observed work into prioritized problems rather than feature requests.
Manage stakeholders across Operations, Tech Ops, and Flight Test, and build alignment on sequencing when needs conflict.
Define adoption and usability metrics, instrument for them, and use the results to guide what to build next and what to retire.
Drive releases amid hardware dependencies, limited test windows, and consequences for regressions.
Use AI in product workflows to accelerate research, synthesis, and specification, and identify where AI can meaningfully improve the end-user experience.