Staff Product Manager

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

Nuro is seeking a Staff Product Manager to join their Product Team. This role is responsible for building products that enhance the company's operations for their Autonomous Vehicles, ensuring safety, efficiency, and effectiveness. The Product Manager will drive high-impact initiatives and collaborate closely with various departments including Operations, Design, Engineering, Strategy, Business Development, and Legal.

Requirements

Strategic thinking: understand the value and priority level for every product and feature.
Structured thinking: create structure and extract principles for complex systems.
Data-driven: extract important insights from available data, even if sparse or imperfect.
Customer-driven: develop deep empathy for the customer and internalize their needs.
Technically fluent: experience building tools with engineers and acting as a technical representative.
Trusted partner: understand what is blocking engineers and how to make their lives easier.
Self-directed: proactively identify the most important tasks and take accountability for projects.
Influential communicator: skilled at collecting input from and presenting insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on learning - rolling up your sleeves and giving it a try yourself.
Knowledge of what it takes to operate a safe and efficient commercial service.
Ability to highlight valuable data that is not currently collected and how to collect it.
Strong intuition about the best ways to meet customer needs.

Responsibilities

Drive high-impact initiatives.
Work closely with Operations, Design, Engineering, Strategy, Business Development, and Legal.
Empathize with users and deeply understand their workflows.
Inform the product roadmap by prioritizing and defining products needed to operate a safe and efficient commercial service.
Lead the team to define, design, and develop innovative solutions that give the Operations Team “superpowers”.
Influence the number of operators needed to operate each vehicle through step-change products.
Define and communicate product goals, requirements, and constraints.
Surface problems and dig-in to fully understand the root cause.
Source and synthesize feedback from internal experts and experiments for incorporation into solutions.
Define success, measure progress, and implement creative tactics to push the pace.