Director, Product Management

Job description

Job responsibilities

• 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.
• 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…
• Be creative - identify new opportunities to grow the business and enhance the customer experience without significant investment - work closely with the business and brand teams.
• Partner with the Go To Market, Brand, and Strategy teams to deliver on the overarching business goals.
• Be a visible spokesperson and evangelist for Zoox’s product and broader mission.

Job requirements

• 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.
• 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 retain top product talent.
• An engineering mindset with a customer outcome obsession. Sufficiently technical to be credible with tier-1 engineering teams; ideally “grew up” in engineering.