Staff Product Manager, AGSE Service
About The Position
AeroVect is hiring a Staff Product Manager to define the strategy, roadmap, and product requirements for its Autonomous Ground Support Equipment (AGSE) Service. The role focuses on ensuring the service is capable, performant, and reliable enough to meet customer needs and support day-to-day airline and airport operations. Working with the Director of Safety, Systems, and Product, the Staff Product Manager sets direction across autonomous driving capabilities, fleet operations, and evaluation infrastructure. The role connects customer needs and commercial realities to product requirements and a roadmap serving multiple customers and business objectives. It also leads a team of Product Managers, mentors them, and establishes practices for defining requirements, measuring capability progress, and making data-driven decisions. This position calls for product leadership, technical depth, commercial fluency, and executive-level communication. The Staff Product Manager guides cross-functional engineering organizations through ambiguity and makes tradeoffs for a safety- and operation-critical autonomous system.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of Product Management experience owning multi-system, technically complex products end-to-end.
- Experience building and shipping products where safety, reliability, and real-time performance are non-negotiable.
- Proven ability to ship 0-to-1 products in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience engaging directly with enterprise or operational customers, conducting discovery, translating needs into requirements, and managing relationships.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities and a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate technical depth into executive clarity.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Nice To Haves
- Master of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 7 years of Product Management experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical systems.
- At least 2 years of experience leading Product Management teams.
- Experience engaging with regulatory stakeholders and navigating compliance requirements for autonomous systems.
- Strong understanding of software development, systems architecture, and data pipelines.
- Experience with V&V processes and working with Safety and Systems Engineering teams.
- Ability to engage substantively in technical design discussions and challenge engineering decisions with product rationale.
- Familiarity with the airside driving environment at major global airports.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the AGSE Service product strategy and roadmap.
- Own the top-level product roadmap across autonomous driving capabilities, fleet operations, and evaluation infrastructure.
- Create clarity about what the company is building, why, and when, aligning commercial, engineering, and operations teams.
- Define KPIs for capability, performance, and reliability to track product health and inform prioritization.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to develop data collection and analysis pipelines supporting development, V&V, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Systems Engineering to translate product needs into system requirements, test plans, and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in system design discussions across Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Hardware to ensure technical architectures meet product goals and operational realities.
- Work with Engineering leadership to make tradeoff decisions aligned with business goals and technical feasibility.
- Work with Program Management to track roadmap commitments, surface blockers, and identify dependencies.
- Communicate product vision and status to senior leadership, customers, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing.
- Lead and develop a team of Product Managers responsible for product verticals, coaching product craft and improving requirements and prioritization practices.
- Establish product development frameworks and best practices for a growing product organization.
- Own product relationships with airline and airport customers, including establishing Statements of Work and Service Level Agreements.
- Translate customer needs, operator needs, and business opportunities into prioritized, data-backed product investments.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
