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Zoox

Fully electric autonomous ride-hailing service platform

Manager – Technical Product Management - Autonomy Integration

Technical Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeFoster City, CA, USA$231k - $281k /yrHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of technical product management experience, ideally in autonomy, robotics, computer vision, or other safety-critical or complex software domains, including at least 3 years directly managing a team of 4 or more technical product managers.
  • A demonstrated track record of hiring, coaching, and performance management, including growing individual contributors into more senior roles.
  • Ability to collaborate with internal partners and users to solve complex cross-functional problems and use influence to generate outcomes.
  • Skill in distilling ambiguous problem spaces into compelling product visions and translating them into team-level frameworks.
  • A technical background, through a degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience, with enough depth to engage in architecture and trade-off discussions across perception, planning and controls, or comparable technical domains.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, manage, mentor, and grow a team of 4–5 Technical Product Managers, fostering ownership, rigor, and continuous improvement.
  • Own the strategy and prioritization framework for defining driving behavior clusters, breaking them into sub-clusters, and sequencing them against company milestones; align team roadmaps to the framework.
  • Serve as the escalation point for cross-cluster trade-offs and technical ambiguity, coaching direct reports on readiness criteria, metrics design, and stakeholder conflicts they cannot resolve independently.
  • Ensure go/no-go release criteria for each cluster are well-reasoned and defensible before release to the live fleet, maintaining safety-critical rigor.
  • Establish and monitor portfolio-level key performance indicators and readiness metrics across the team's clusters, and maintain a high bar for how the team defines and tracks them.
  • Ensure rider feedback, field operations observations, and on-road incident learnings from the live service are incorporated systematically into cluster roadmaps and readiness criteria.
  • Manage cluster assignments and team capacity, rebalancing ownership as the driving behavior cluster map evolves and the business scales.
  • Translate cross-cluster status, risk, and trade-offs into clear, data-driven updates for autonomy engineering leadership, safety, and company executives.
  • Act as a key interface between the team and autonomy software engineering, metrics, safety, and user research leadership to drive two-way collaboration while minimizing churn to engineering teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience developing robotics products or autonomous vehicle software.
  • Background in computer vision, perception, or machine-learning-driven systems.
  • Experience building or scaling a product management function through a transition from research to commercial launch.
  • Experience in another regulated or safety-critical industry, such as aerospace, medical devices, or industrial automation, outside autonomous vehicles.

About the Company

Zoox

Fully electric autonomous ride-hailing service platform

Zoox designs and operates an autonomous ride-hailing service built around a purpose-built, fully electric vehicle designed specifically for autonomous operation. The vehicle uses advanced sensors, cameras, and AI to navigate complex urban environments, offering a four-passenger interior for comfort. Unlike competitors that retrofit existing cars, Zoox engineers both the vehicle and the service from the ground up, enabling optimized safety, efficiency, and passenger experience through integrated software that optimizes routing and reduces wait times. The company emphasizes safety through extensive testing and regulatory collaboration, and sustainability via electric mobility. The ultimate goal is to provide a smarter, safer, and more efficient urban transportation system that improves city life while reducing emissions.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Acquired
Total funding
$1.2B
Headquarters
Menlo Park, CA
Founded
2014

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