Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Driving

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The Product Team at Motional creates the central vision for our autonomous vehicle fleet, working across the engineering, business development, and operations teams to design and deliver a product that is safe, reliable, and accessible for our passengers.

As a Product Manager, you will focus on understanding current and future user needs, industry and technology trends, and customer and partner requirements. The requirements from these learnings will be used to develop products that will shape the fast-moving Autonomous Vehicle (AV) industry. Your leadership will be necessary to manage the development of new high profile products, prioritize new features for launch, and manage the product’s development throughout its lifecycle. To do this, you will work closely with users, designers, engineering, and sales and marketing teams. 

The Motional Santa Monica office is located in the heart of 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica at 312 Arizona Avenue. With all the modern amenities for productive work and play, it is steps away from the popular pedestrian outdoor shopping area and Santa Monica beach.

What you'll be doing:

  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams across our software stack (Perception, Planning, Localization, Controls) to refine product requirements and the Operational Design Domain (ODD) for the AV. 
  • Leverage deep user, customer, and industry knowledge to design, launch, and improve our autonomous driving software 
  • Work with design and user research to gain a deep understanding of consumer behavior and market trends.
  • Identify and assess the business value of different strategic scenarios, time sensitive product opportunities, including revenue-generating variants, help define what should be included within our portfolio.
  • Utilize strong customer and business acumen to guide the product vision through difficult decision points during development.
  • Represent the product team and champion the product through the go-to-market process working with global marketing and sales colleagues to ensure a clear product position and impactful launch.

What we're looking for:

  • Bachelor's Degree, preferably in an engineering discipline 
  • 5+ years of Product Manager experience 
  • Previous experience with autonomous technology, robotics, or similarly relevant experience 
  • Previous experience launching a new product, working with operations teams to ensure smooth execution 
  • Cross functional team experience, especially working with engineers and UI/UX designers
  • Highly polished writing ability, very strong presentation and verbal communication skills.
  • Proven ability to drive cohesion, collaboration and decision making among different people & functions

Bonus points but not required:

  • Computer science or equivalent engineering or data sciences background 
  • Advanced degree (MS / MBA)

Why you should join us:

  • In this role, you will work at the very core of our autonomous software product, defining the vision and priorities for our autonomous capabilities and then working with development teams to implement the vision. As the product approaches launch, you’ll simultaneously collaborate with operations and testing to test the product with users and refine it before release.

Motional is making driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.

Our team is commercializing a world-class driverless system. The Motional team is behind some of the industry’s largest leaps forward in the last decade, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world’s first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world’s most-established public robotaxi fleet. Strategically formed by Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives.

 

Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the US and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

 

 

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