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Foster City, California, United States
Onsite
Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities and safely deploy such a robotaxi solution. The System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team plays a foundational role in the company's success, responsible for constructing the safety case and fail-operational design for our autonomous driving robots before public road deployment. You will be part of an organization with strong leadership and a transparent, respectful culture that enables you to reach your full potential.
We're looking for a Technical Product Manager to lead SDMA's shift to an AI-first way of working. You will own the vision and roadmap for agentic AI solutions that accelerate our safety clearance process and significantly reduce manual work, freeing our engineers to focus on technical review and decision making that matter most. Your work will directly help Zoox scale faster and reach its commercialization goals.
Your primary customers are SDMA's systems and safety engineers and technical program managers. You'll partner closely with Zoox's AI team, along with crossing functional partners including Software, Data Science, Hardware, Operations, Product, etc. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for someone who loves turning ambiguity into products people rely on.
Set the Vision: Define a compelling vision for how SDMA's safety case and clearance process will be transformed, reimagining internal workflows as AI-first paradigms rather than simply automating today's steps.
Turn Ambiguity into Action: Bring structure to ambiguous problems and fragmented information, resolve open questions and differences, and keep teams focused on actionable results.
Build and Deliver the Roadmap: Translate the vision into a prioritized roadmap, break large problems into incremental releases that deliver early value, and drive them through implementation and adoption. Prioritize investment where it most accelerates milestones.
Enable the AI Team: Partner with Zoox's AI team as the voice of the SDMA customer. Define clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and quality gates so they can build the right technical solutions.
Earn Trust in AI Outputs: Ensure AI-generated analyses meet the rigor safety decisions demand, with traceability, validation, and the right level of human oversight built in.
Align Across Zoox: Communicate the roadmap, trade-offs, and progress clearly to stakeholders and leadership. Resolve disagreements and build consensus across organizations.
Measure What Matters: Define and track metrics such as adoption, output accuracy, clearance cycle time, and engineering hours saved, and use them to demonstrate impact and steer strategy.
Technical Foundation: B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, with hands-on engineering experience. Comfortable going deep on system architecture and data with senior engineers.
Proven Product Leadership: 8+ years of hands-on product management experience, with a track record of building and launching complex software products, including AI-integrated products.
AI Fluency: Practical understanding of LLMs and agentic systems and how they map to real-world engineering workflows.
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Thrives in ambiguity, moves from zero to one, and is energized by pioneering new paradigms.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Excellent communicator who resolves disagreements, aligns teams on solutions, and inspires both SDMA engineers and cross-functional partners.
Organizational Change Leadership: Experience driving organization-level mindset shifts and leading visible, high-impact technical initiatives.
Agentic Workflow Experience: Hands-on experience managing and implementing agentic workflows and products.
Autonomy and Robotics: Experience with autonomous vehicle development or similarly complex robotics systems