Zoox
Manager, Technical Product Management – Autonomy Integration
$231K–$281K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of technical product management experience, including 3+ years directly managing a team of 4 or more technical product managers.
- Education
- Degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads a team of Technical Product Managers and oversees readiness, strategy, and performance across autonomy driving behavior clusters for Zoox’s commercial robotaxi service.
What you'll do
- Hire, manage, mentor, and develop a team of 4–5 Technical Product Managers.
- Set portfolio strategy and prioritization, and oversee cluster roadmaps, readiness criteria, safety, and performance metrics.
- Translate operational feedback, risks, and cross-functional trade-offs into roadmaps and executive updates.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of technical product management experience, including 3+ years directly managing a team of 4 or more technical product managers.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, and manage performance, including developing individual contributors into more senior roles.
- Technical field degree or equivalent practical experience, with depth to engage in architecture and trade-off discussions across perception, planning/controls, or comparable domains.
- Proven strategy, leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and ability to turn ambiguity into product visions and team frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience developing robotics products or autonomous vehicle software; background in computer vision, perception, or ML-driven systems.
- Experience scaling product management through a research-to-commercial-launch transition, or in another regulated or safety-critical industry.
Pay
USD 231,000–281,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
autonomy software, robotics, computer vision, perception, planning/controls, ML-driven systems
AI focus
The role oversees autonomy software and may involve ML-driven systems; it does not specify direct AI development responsibilities.
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