Staff Product Operations Manager

Aurora Innovation•Mountain View, CA

2d•$181 - $262•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. 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. We’re looking for a Staff Product Operations Manager to be a force multiplier in realizing the full potential of Aurora’s Mapping operations and technology for self-driving. As a Staff Product Operations Manager, you’ll bring a blend of strategic, operational, and product experience to drive alignment across our organization, optimize operational processes, and accelerate product development velocity. You’ll partner with Engineering, Mapping Ops, Systems Safety, and Product Program Management to translate business objectives into concrete, tactical plans for the teams. In this high-impact role, you’ll bring strong product management instinct and pair them with operational rigor to design systems that allow our Mapping organization to scale. You’ll help build and improve the operating system behind how our Mapping products and processes scale – from HD map expansion, updates, change detection, validation, and release readiness.

Requirements

8+ years of related work experience, particularly in Product Management, Product Operations, or Technical Program Management
Strong product intuition, you understand roadmaps, tradeoffs, and technical constraints
Familiarity with QA workflows, vendor management, and distributed operations
Proven experience in creating and driving efficient process improvements that can scale
Data fluency and experience with visualization tools using SQL and Python, turning data into actionable business insights
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, fluent in communicating nuanced, and often technical concepts across a variety of cross-functional stakeholders
Excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to influence without authority
Embraces challenges and thrives in a fast-paced environment, ability to work through ambiguity

Nice To Haves

Experience with HD maps, geospatial systems, robotics, autonomy, and simulation environments
Experience supporting Machine Learning or data labeling pipelines
Experience using jira to build structures and frameworks to manage deliverables

Responsibilities

Drive operational alignment, product readiness, and continuous improvement across Mapping systems and tools
Translate operational inefficiencies into product and tooling requirements, partner with engineering and analytics teams to drive automation and triage efficiency
Lead and execute strategic initiatives to scale operations including KPI frameworks, process optimizations, and standardization
Influence senior stakeholders by turning operational insights into clear, data-driven narratives that inform product and business decisions
Partner with Engineering to develop product roadmaps and sprint-level objectives to ensure operational readiness to test and productionize new software developments
Develop detailed projects plans and experiments with clear objective, structure, and analytical rigor
Demonstrate excellent communication skills to share progress updates and business reports tailored for wide variety of audience