Lead Product Manager - Autonomous Vehicle Integrations

• Own the platform strategy and requirements for Autonomous Vehicle Platforms, defining what partner vehicles must support to operate reliably and efficiently on Uber.
• Define and maintain minimum vehicle specifications across OEM partnerships and vehicle programs, ensuring each can support Uber’s current and future commercialization use cases.
• Own the evolving set of vehicle platform requirements across onboard hardware, embedded software, interfaces, and core system architecture, updating them based on partner needs and evolving autonomous technology. 
• Partner closely with business development and vehicle strategy teams at Uber to align on cost and capability trade offs and roles and responsibilities for our partnerships. 
• Serve as the primary technical product representative in partner and OEM engagements, driving alignment, resolving requirement gaps, and pulling in the right internal experts as needed.
• Drive key trade-off decisions across cost, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, scalability, and performance to ensure durable platform choices.
• Build the mechanisms needed to support execution at scale, including requirements documents, interface definitions, decision frameworks, and readiness criteria.
• Communicate roadmap direction, technical risks, requirement changes, and key decisions clearly to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building and launching complex hardware or vehicle products from prototype through production, including managing firmware dependencies, validation, and release milestones.
• Experience working directly with OEMs and/or Tier 1 suppliers to define requirements, manage interfaces, and align on development and release schedules.
• Strong technical fluency in vehicle systems and architecture, with the ability to make sound product and integration trade-offs across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software domains.
• Proven ability to independently own ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and drive them from definition through execution.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience representing technical requirements with senior internal teams and external partners.
• Up to 40% domestic and international travel to work closely with OEMs and autonomy partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, vehicle architecture, or a related technical field, or equivalent product experience.
• Experience in autonomous vehicles, advanced automotive systems, robotics, consumer electronics, aerospace, or other complex hardware domains.
• Prior experience in roles such as Engineering Program Manager, Technical Program Manager, Vehicle Line Manager, systems-focused Product Manager, Systems Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience defining system-level requirements that span hardware and software and carry across multiple vehicle programs or generations.
• Comfort operating in highly technical environments where platform decisions have long-term implications for commercialization strategy.

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For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $216,000 per year - USD $240,000 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $216,000 per year - USD $240,000 per year.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $216,000 per year - USD $240,000 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.