Zoox has completed its transition from research and development to an operational business: we now run a public-facing, commercial robotaxi service, with paying riders on the road and new cities coming online. The autonomy software system — the "driver" — is broken down into a portfolio of driving behavior clusters, each owned by a Technical Product Manager who is the accountable owner of that cluster's readiness for live commercial service, not just for an internal milestone.
You will lead a team of 4–5 Senior and Staff-level Technical Product Managers who each own one or more driving behavior clusters. You will hire, coach, and grow this team while owning the portfolio-level view of readiness, risk, and roadmap health across every cluster they manage. This is a high-visibility role that sits at the intersection of autonomy software engineering, product, metrics, safety, and user research, and is critical to scaling our commercial autonomous driving service into new cities and driving domains.
In this role, you will:
Lead a Team: Hire, manage, mentor, and grow a team of 4–5 Technical Product Managers, fostering a culture of ownership, rigor, and continuous improvement.
Develop Strategy: Own the overall strategy and prioritization framework for how driving behavior clusters are defined, broken into sub-clusters, and sequenced against company milestones, and align your team's roadmaps to it.
Provide Technical & Product Guidance: Be the escalation point for cross-cluster trade-offs and technical ambiguity, coaching your direct reports through readiness-criteria definition, metrics design, and stakeholder conflicts they can't resolve alone. Hold the bar on safety-critical rigor, ensuring go/no-go release criteria for each cluster are well-reasoned and defensible before they ship to the live fleet.
Monitor Performance: Establish and monitor portfolio-level KPIs and readiness metrics across all clusters your team owns, and hold a high bar for how your team defines and tracks their own.
Close the Operational Feedback Loop: Ensure your team systematically incorporates rider feedback, field operations observations, and on-road incident learnings from the live service into cluster roadmaps and readiness bars.
Manage Resources: Manage cluster assignments and team capacity, rebalancing ownership as the driving behavior cluster map evolves and the business scales.
Executive Communication: Translate cross-cluster status, risk, and trade-offs into clear, data-driven updates for autonomy engineering leadership, safety, and company executives.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Be a key interface between your team and autonomy software engineering, metrics, safety, and user research leadership to drive two-way collaboration with minimum churn to engineering teams.
Qualifications
8+ years of technical product management experience, ideally in autonomy, robotics, computer vision, or other safety-critical/complex software domains, including 3+ years directly managing a team of 4 or more technical product managers.
Demonstrated track record of hiring, coaching, and performance management, including growing individual contributors into more senior roles.
Strategy and leadership skills; proven ability to collaborate with internal partners and users to solve complex cross-functional problems and use influence to generate great outcomes.
Established skills in distilling ambiguous problem spaces into compelling product visions and translating them into team-level frameworks.
Technical background (degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience) with enough depth to engage in architecture and trade-off discussions across perception, planning/controls, or comparable technical domains.
Bonus Qualifications
Experience developing robotics products or autonomous vehicle software.
Background in computer vision, perception, or ML-driven systems.
Experience building or scaling a product management function through a research-to-commercial-launch transition.
Experience in another regulated or safety-critical industry (e.g., aerospace, medical devices, industrial automation) outside of autonomous vehicles.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of technical product management experience, ideally in autonomy, robotics, computer vision, or other safety-critical or complex software domains
- 3+ years directly managing a team of 4 or more technical product managers
- Demonstrated experience hiring, coaching, and managing performance, including developing individual contributors into senior roles
- Strategy and leadership skills, including cross-functional collaboration, user partnership, complex problem-solving, and influencing outcomes
- Ability to turn ambiguous problem spaces into product visions and team-level frameworks
- Technical degree or equivalent practical experience
- Technical depth to participate in architecture and trade-off discussions across perception, planning and controls, or comparable technical domains
- Experience developing robotics products or autonomous vehicle software
- Background in computer vision, perception, or machine-learning-driven systems
- Experience scaling a product management function through a research-to-commercial-launch transition
- Experience in another regulated or safety-critical industry, such as aerospace, medical devices, or industrial automation
Zoox Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zoox and has not been reviewed or approved by Zoox.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is extensive, with broad medical and vision options, company‑paid disability coverage, and multiple mental‑health resources. Feedback suggests coverage breadth and auxiliary programs support a wide range of needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include paid parental leave, additional pregnancy disability time, fertility coverage, and adoption/surrogacy assistance. Backup care and family‑oriented programs further reinforce support across life stages.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Day‑to‑day perks are robust, including free daily meals, fitness subsidies, commuter support, and on‑site amenities. Feedback suggests these lifestyle benefits enhance convenience and workplace experience, especially for office‑based roles.
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What We Do
Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that was founded to provide a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road. To achieve that goal, the company has spent the past 10 years creating a purpose-built robotaxi that gives the world a better way to ride.
Why Work With Us
At Zoox, we are working to solve one of the greatest technological challenges of our generation. From the beginning, we have been focused on our goal of reimagining transportation from the ground up. We are a mission-driven community of innovators working together to create a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road.
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