Lead strategy, roadmap, and growth for multiple Code Security products, managing and developing product managers while aligning engineering and go-to-market teams around customer value and business outcomes.
Director, Product Management
📜 Description
- Lead, develop, and mentor product teams to deliver Zoox’s service and product goals.
- Set product strategy and translate market trends, customer insights, and technology advances into a roadmap.
- Oversee the product lifecycle from ideation through launch, coordinating with engineering, design, experience, marketing, and operations.
- Improve product processes and management practices to support scalability, reliability, safety, and innovation.
- Identify opportunities to grow the business and improve customer experience, partnering with business, brand, go-to-market, and strategy teams.
- Represent and advocate for Zoox’s products and mission with stakeholders and executive leadership.
🛠️ Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a senior product leader in fast-paced, product-driven technology companies, with a record of leading innovative, commercially successful product organizations.
- Domain expertise in complex hardware and software systems, consumer electronics, connected devices, automotive, autonomous vehicles, or mobility.
- Experience taking products from concept through delivery and successful commercialization, ideally at meaningful scale.
- Strong product vision and ability to guide product direction, architecture, roadmap discipline, and release trade-offs.
- Leadership experience attracting, developing, and retaining product talent; startup experience and experience in larger organizations are valued.
- Technical credibility with engineering teams, an engineering mindset, and a strong focus on customer outcomes.
- Executive presence and demonstrated ability to influence technical and non-technical executives.
- Mobility-as-a-service, ridesharing, or related experience is a plus.
Full job description
Zoox was founded to make personal transportation safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable—for everyone. To achieve that goal, the team created a whole new form of transportation. Zoox provides mobility-as-a-service in dense urban environments. We handle the driving, charging, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles.
We are looking for a Director of Product to lead our Product Management teams, spanning everything from new vehicle definition, to the rider experience, to our service offerings. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Zoox by defining the product direction and overseeing the entire product lifecycle, while reconciling the product’s current stage of development and complexity with new innovation and scaling the business.
You will be responsible for growing and retaining talent while fostering an inclusive work environment. You will be expected to inspire and motivate the team to work together to deliver a world class product. Finally, you will need to work closely with engineering partners, executive leadership, and stakeholders to drive the business and product objectives.
At Zoox, you’ll find a creative, collaborative environment where great ideas thrive, and where everyone is driven by the same purpose.
In this role you will:
In this role you will:
Lead a world-class product team to deliver a world class service. Develop, support, and mentor the team to enable them to deliver their goals.
Develop and execute our product strategy, aligning it with the company's vision and objectives. Translate market trends, customer insights, and technology advancements into a compelling product roadmap.
Oversee the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring successful product delivery within budget and timelines. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, experience, marketing, and operations to deliver a high-quality, world-class service.
Bring discipline and process improvement to the product organization, ensuring best-in-class product management tradecraft to promote scalability, stability, reliability, safety, and continuous innovation in the Zoox vehicle and service.
Be creative - identify new opportunities to grow the business and enhance the customer experience without significant investment - work closely with the business and brand teams.
Partner with the Go To Market, Brand, and Strategy teams to deliver on the overarching business goals.
Be a visible spokesperson and evangelist for Zoox’s product and broader mission.
Qualifications
10+ years experience as a senior product leader in technology companies known for fast-paced, rapidly-iterating, product driven cultures. A track record as a top performer throughout their career. A record of leading product organizations that deliver innovative and commercially successful results.
Domain expertise in segments including multi-dimensional complex systems (hardware, software, mechanical, etc.), consumer electronics, connected devices, automotive, autonomous vehicles, and/or mobility.
Direct experience in “mobility-as-a-service,” ridesharing, or related is considered a plus; single product portfolio experience is also a positive.
A proven product visionary and thought leader; possesses strong opinions on product direction and architecture, and ability to enforce roadmap discipline and release trade-offs.
A blend of startup experience and larger organizational scope of responsibility is considered ideal; possesses a startup mentality.
Proven experience taking products from concept to delivery and successful commercialization, ideally at meaningful scale. Direct experience in rapid growth environments is highly desirable.
Entrepreneurial spirit, with a high tolerance for ambiguity and complexity, and the ability to be efficient with limited resources.
Demonstrable success as a leader, natural leadership qualities. Has the reputation and industry recognition to attract and retain top product talent.
An engineering mindset with a customer outcome obsession. Sufficiently technical to be credible with tier-1 engineering teams; ideally “grew up” in engineering.
Strong executive presence; articulate, charismatic, driven and confident, yet humble and collaborative. Demonstrated competency interacting and influencing effectively at the executive level, with both technical and non-technical executives.
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