Senior/Staff Technical Product Manager, Operational Design Domain (ODD) Tools

Zoox•Foster City, CA

11d•$212,000 - $267,000

About The Position

Zoox is seeking a highly technical and strategic Technical Product Manager to own the product vision and roadmap for its Operational Design Domain (ODD) planning platform. The platform is the single source of truth for where Zoox operates, maintaining versioned, milestone-aligned Plans of Record for each city. It turns geography, road attributes, and operational policy into approved driving areas, with outputs supporting production maps, safety validation, mileage accumulation, rider service areas, and data labeling. The role’s primary customers are Driving Behavior Technical Product Managers, and it also supports Mapping, Safety, Data Science, and Program Management teams. The mission is to keep every Plan of Record accurate, validated, and traceable while scaling ODD planning to dozens of cities. The position balances milestone-critical operational needs with long-term platform investments, with a high quality bar because errors have safety implications. The Technical Product Manager will own the platform’s long-term vision and roadmap, aligned with release milestones and city expansion. They will evolve ODD control from manual, annotation-heavy workflows toward scalable, policy-driven configuration; establish validation gates, guardrails, and traceability; and work with Safety and Data Science to set quality standards for road attributes. The role also drives customer discovery, product lifecycle execution, engineering partnership, stakeholder alignment, and metrics-based product decisions.

Requirements

At least 5 years of Technical Product Management experience, preferably with complex, data-heavy internal tools or enterprise-scale platforms.
Comfort discussing system architecture and data models with senior engineers.
Proven track record defining validation, metrics, and quality bars for data used in high-stakes decisions.
Proven ability to ship incremental value against clear priorities while balancing near-term milestone needs with the long-term roadmap and platform health.
Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.
Ability to build consensus across organizations, secure engineering investment, and drive clarity.

Nice To Haves

Deep technical fluency with geospatial data, road networks or map data models, APIs, and data pipelines.
Experience developing AI/ML, robotics, or autonomous vehicle products, particularly ODD definition, geofencing, or service area planning.
Hands-on experience with GIS tooling and spatial data such as PostGIS and GeoJSON, and SQL-based analytics such as Databricks.
Experience with automated data mining or ML-based attribute extraction at scale, such as vision-language models.
Experience leading delivery with distributed engineering teams across time zones.

Responsibilities

Own the long-term vision and roadmap for the ODD planning platform, aligned with release milestones and city expansion plans.
Evolve ODD control from manual, annotation-heavy workflows to scalable, policy-driven configuration.
Define validation gates, guardrails, and traceability to keep Plans of Record consistent with maps and prior milestones.
Partner with Safety and Data Science to set precision and recall standards for road attributes that control driving areas.
Work with Driving Behavior Technical Product Managers, Mapping, Safety, and Data Science to understand workflows and improve planning speed, data quality, and decision-making.
Drive the full product lifecycle, including authoring PRDs, prioritizing and managing the backlog, and running alpha validation before features enter milestone workflows.
Break complex problems into incremental releases that deliver value early.
Partner with engineering leadership to staff the roadmap, set release quality gates, and reduce production regressions.
Raise capacity and quality risks early, using data, before they affect milestones.
Serve as the central point of contact for ODD planning and communicate roadmap, trade-offs, and status to stakeholders and leadership.
Define, track, and report KPIs such as adoption, Plan of Record accuracy, time saved, and platform performance; use results to shape strategy.