Key Responsibilities

• Attract talent and scale a world-class product team based on established network and experience.  Design and evolve the org structure while leading, mentoring, and elevating the skills and capabilities of the team.
• Develop and execute our product strategy, aligning it with the company’s vision and objectives. Translate market trends, customer insights, and technology advancements into a compelling product roadmap.
• Oversee the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring successful product delivery within budget and timelines. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, experience, marketing, and operations to deliver a high-quality, market-leading service.
• Bring discipline and process improvement to the product organization, ensuring best-in-class product management tradecraft to promote scalability, stability, reliability, safety, and continuous innovation in the Zoox vehicle and service.
• Compile and analyze feedback from riders, partners, and the market in general, and develop detailed guidance on core users, their needs, and the long-term value Zoox creates. Build and maintain detailed intelligence on core competitors, including existing players that may be moving into a more competitive stance. Become an expert on both competitive and complementary products and services in the marketplace.
• Be a visible spokesperson and evangelist for Zoox’s product and broader mission.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience as a senior product leader in reputable technology companies known for fast-paced, rapidly-iterating, product driven cultures. A track record as a top performer throughout his or her career. A record of leading product organizations that deliver innovative and commercially successful results.
• Domain expertise in segments including multi-dimensional complex systems (hardware, software, mechanical, etc.), consumer electronics, connected devices, automotive, autonomous vehicles, and/or mobility.  Direct experience in “mobility-as-a-service,” ridesharing, or related is considered a plus; single product portfolio experience is also a positive. A proven product visionary and thought leader; possesses strong opinions on product direction and architecture, and ability to enforce roadmap discipline and release trade-offs.  A blend of startup experience and larger organizational scope of responsibility is considered ideal; possesses a startup mentality. Proven experience taking products from concept to delivery and successful commercialization, ideally at meaningful scale.  Direct experience in rapid growth environments is highly desirable.
• Disruptive mindset and entrepreneurial spirit, with a high tolerance for ambiguity and complexity, and the ability to be efficient with limited resources.
• Demonstrable success as a leader, natural leadership qualities. Has the reputation and industry recognition to attract and recruit top product talent.
• Customer focused; obsessive about the end user and demands an experience that users love and promote. Sufficiently technical to be credible with tier-1 engineering teams; ideally “grew up” in engineering.
• Strong executive presence; articulate, charismatic, driven and confident, yet humble and collaborative.  Demonstrated competency interacting and influencing effectively at the executive level, with both technical and non-technical executives.