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Zoox is seeking a Director of Technical Product Management to lead the Autonomy Integration team as the company scales its commercial robotaxi service. You will manage a team of 4–5 Senior and Staff-level Technical Product Managers, each owning one or more driving behavior clusters—the core behavioral modules of the autonomous "driver" system.
In this high-visibility role at the intersection of autonomy software engineering, product, metrics, safety, and user research, you will:
• Lead and grow a team of technical product managers through hiring, coaching, and performance management, fostering a culture of ownership and rigor.
• Own portfolio-level strategy for how driving behavior clusters are defined, sequenced, and aligned to company milestones; develop and maintain the prioritization framework across all clusters.
• Serve as the escalation point for cross-cluster trade-offs and technical ambiguity, coaching direct reports on readiness-criteria definition, metrics design, and stakeholder conflict resolution.
• Establish and monitor portfolio-level KPIs and readiness metrics; hold a high bar for safety-critical rigor and ensure go/no-go release criteria are well-reasoned and defensible before shipping to the live fleet.
• Close the operational feedback loop by systematically incorporating rider feedback, field operations observations, and on-road incident learnings into cluster roadmaps and readiness standards.
• Manage cluster assignments and team capacity, rebalancing ownership as the driving behavior cluster map evolves and the business scales into new cities and domains.
• Translate cross-cluster status, risk, and trade-offs into clear, data-driven executive updates for autonomy engineering leadership, safety, and company executives.
• Partner closely with autonomy software engineering, metrics, safety, and user research leadership to drive two-way collaboration with minimal disruption 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.
• Strong 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.
• Ability to distill ambiguous problem spaces into compelling product visions and translate 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 (aerospace, medical devices, industrial automation) outside autonomous vehicles.
