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Principal Technical Product Manager – Autonomous Vehicle
Glydways
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Define and evangelize the long-term product vision and strategy for the Glydways vehicle, aligning with company goals and market opportunities.
- Own and prioritize the vehicle product roadmap, identifying key features, functions, and improvements based on user needs, technical feasibility, and business impact.
- Translate high-level strategic objectives into detailed product requirements, user stories, and technical specifications for engineering and design teams.
- Analyze tradeoffs between different user needs, requirements and solutions using both judgment and quantitative models to define the product that meets the Glydways vision within the constraints of an operational system.
- Conduct thorough user research, market analysis, and competitive landscape assessments to deeply understand customer needs, pain points, and emerging trends in transportation and autonomous vehicles.
- Collaborate closely with hardware engineering, software engineering (autonomous driving, controls, embedded systems), industrial design, UX design, operations, safety, and manufacturing teams to ensure successful product development and launch.
- Develop a deep understanding of the Glydways vehicle's technical architecture, including its autonomous driving capabilities, motion actuation systems, safety features, sensor suite, closures and user interface systems.
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for the vehicle and work with engineering to ensure the product meets or exceeds targets for safety, reliability, efficiency, and user satisfaction.
- Effectively communicate product plans, progress, and challenges to executive leadership and various internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage the entire product lifecycle of the Glydways vehicle, from pre-production to production and launch, iteration, and end-of-life planning.
- Proactively identify and resolve complex product challenges, making data-driven decisions and adapting to evolving requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. An advanced engineering degree or MBA is a plus.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in product management or systems engineering in a relevant industry.
- Direct experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, transit systems, or complex hardware/software integrated products is highly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze use cases and user stories for end user interaction with autonomous systems and deriving product requirements.
- Experience defining vehicle performance and attribute targets such as range, ride quality, thermal comfort as well as operating envelope
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Demonstrated understanding of vehicle and fleet lifecycle costs and how economics drive trades and constraints in vehicle design
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead and drive consensus between cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and rapidly evolving startup environment.
- Passion for transforming urban transportation and making a positive impact on society.
Benefits
- Glydways provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product managementsystems engineeringautonomous vehiclesuser storiestechnical specificationsperformance targetsdata-driven decision makinganalytical skillsproblem-solvingvehicle lifecycle costs
Soft skills
communicationpresentationinterpersonal skillsinfluencecollaborationleadershipconsensus buildingadaptabilityanalytical thinkingpassion for urban transportation
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer Scienceadvanced engineering degreeMBA