At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.
We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.
Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.
We are currently seeking a Staff Product Manager for the Body Structures and Closures team. As the Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and defining our cutting-edge vehicle systems. This product management-heavy role involves close collaboration with UX, marketing, and requirements engineering teams to develop attributes that enhance customer experience and satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Vision and Leadership:
- Lead the product vision and strategy for relevant technologies to help secure Lucid’s continual competitive advantage in a margin-appropriate fashion.
- Translate Lucid’s unique market positioning into both strategic vectors and tactical actions for how to support, and integrate optimally, with the entire vehicle ecosystem.
- Holistically drive multi-year product roadmaps and align them with the company’s overall business strategy and market trends.
- Collaborative Development and Stakeholder Engagement:
- Work closely with UX designers to ensure seamless integration of technologies that delight customers with intuitive ease and emotional appeal, with a razor-sharp focus on incremental value vs. incremental lifecycle cost.
- Partner with marketing teams to define market needs that identify customer value propositions and then express Lucid’s advantages in compelling ways that truly land and stick.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between engineering, UX, marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and project success.
- Gather insights and feedback from internal and external stakeholders, integrating them into product development processes.
- Market Analysis, Market Research, and Innovation:
- Conduct market analyses to identify the most forward-looking trends and innovation opportunities in relevant technologies.
- Stay abreast of competitive offerings and ensure the company’s solutions are best-in-class.
- Leverage a mixture of qualitative and quantitative market research techniques to gain fundamental insight into the potential response, viability, and corresponding value of proposed technologies, features, and systems.
- Continually engage with research teams and top vendors to trigger development programs that could support Lucid’s leadership positioning
- Collaborate intensively with engineering teams to optimize the relationships between product innovation, piece part cost, capital investment, time to market, and actual customer impact.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Product Management, Business, or a related field. MBA or equivalent competence strongly desired.
- At least 8 years of demonstrated high performance as a product manager who consistently delivers world-class products, preferably within the automotive branch or technical industries with similar rigor.
- Significant knowledge of body related technologies, specifically in Closures systems and related vehicles features.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects under intense time pressure.
- Possess an exceptionally innovative mindset with a passion for sustainability and electric vehicles.
- Clear aptitude in balancing conflicting needs such as feature-benefits vs development expense vs capital investment vs product cost vs time to market.
- Extremely refined communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experienced at persuasively presenting to upper management with targeted messaging, even when under uncomfortable pressure.
Advantageous:
- Proven track record of deriving deep insights from a mixture of qualitative and quantitative user experience research, including uncovering future opportunities where companies could carve out unique value for customers.
- Very well-developed sense for visual aesthetics, user experience, and how to generate targeted customer emotional responses that could enhance Lucid’s differentiation.
- Demonstrated understanding of mechanical engineering, materials properties, electromechanical packaging, ergonomics and HMI.
- Instinctive mentor and change management agent who continually elevates the skills and capabilities of others.
- Deep understanding of international markets and corresponding mindsets, ideally with multinational working experience.
- Natural inclination to persistently track down and solve necessary details as an integral part of implementing the overall strategy. Our viewpoint: strategy without brilliant execution is useless.
- Creative thinker who inspires and supports others in generating unexpectedly delightful solutions for demanding customers. Extra bonus for being a frequent intellectual property contributor.
- Show a powerful ability to inspire and guide multidisciplinary teams to deliver market-defining product and brand experiences. Not the simple stuff—the market-defining things that generate strong brand separation from competitors.
Salary Range: The compensation range for this position is specific to the locations listed below and is the range Lucid reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; and other relevant business and organizational factors.
Additional Compensation and Benefits: Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs. (Cash or equity incentive awards, if any, will depend on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and company performance.)
Base Pay Range (Annual)
$154,900—$227,150 USD
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Lucid is a visual collaboration suite that helps teams see and build the future. Virtual whiteboarding, intelligent diagramming, and cloud visualization come together to empower organizations to take plans from initial ideas all the way to successful delivery. Together, they are utilized in over 180 countries by more than 25 million users. Ninety-six percent of the Fortune 500 use Lucidchart, and customers include Google, GE, NBC Universal and Johnson & Johnson. Lucid’s partners include industry leaders such as Google, Atlassian, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Since the Utah-based company’s founding in 2010, it has received numerous awards for its business and workplace culture.