Senior Staff Product Manager, Vehicle Product Management

Aurora•Mountain View, CA

1d•$179,000 - $316,000•Hybrid

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. We’re searching for a passionate and experienced Senior Staff Product Manager to lead the Vehicle Product Management team. Aurora has proven its technology with our successful commercial launch and is now underway in scaling to thousands of trucks on the road. This role will ensure we achieve this scale with a customer-centric approach. You will paint a detailed picture for our engineering teams, collaborating on our vision and roadmap and deriving technical and market-informed requirements for execution by Aurora’s design and engineering teams.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience or 8+ years of relevant experience
Engineering or equivalent technical degree
Experience in leading product development of complex systems, especially hardware and/or production vehicles
Experience with volume hardware manufacturing or automotive-grade hardware development

Nice To Haves

2+ years of experience with people management
Experience with cross-functional software-hardware co-design (e.g., working with perception, motion planning, or compute teams)

Responsibilities

Lead a team of product managers by goal-setting and coordinating work across Aurora’s entire vehicle and hardware portfolio.
Map technical capabilities and improvements to product or customer value to inform next generation hardware development and prioritization
Coordinate with User Experience and Industrial Design team members to deliver physical user touchpoints across our products
Review potential operating domain criteria (distances/speeds, climate/environment, road types, obstacles) to identify impacted hardware requirements
Develop product-relevant vehicle platform integration requirements
Develop strong relationships with stakeholders (both internally and externally) in order to help facilitate tradeoff decision making
Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of the products and projects
Communicate team’s strategy, roadmap, plans, and priorities to stakeholders and leadership
Meet with counterparts at vehicle OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and other key hardware partners to better understand their roadmaps, business models, and alignment with our vehicle product strategy
Manage hardware product lifecycles from early concept through prototype validation, OEM vehicle integration, serviceability, and field support
Work alongside regulatory, legal, and safety teams to ensure vehicle hardware and platform integrations comply with evolving autonomous vehicle regulations and functional safety standards