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Salary: USD 140,000 - 180,000 / annual
Waabi is a Physical AI company building autonomous trucking and robotaxi technology. The Commercial Product team sits at the intersection of autonomy, operations, business development, and customer delivery, translating driverless capability into deployable, scalable commercial products.
As Senior Program Manager for Trucking, you will own the integrated commercialization roadmap and serve as the critical integration layer between truck supply, customer commitments, expansion efforts, site activations, and autonomy capabilities. You will manage execution of the commercial plan, proactively tracking dependencies and mitigating risks to drive clear commercial progress.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and own the integrated roadmap tying customer commitments, OEM truck supply, autonomy and ODD readiness, lane and site activation, Mission Control, operations readiness, and Account Management launches to explicit dates and dependencies.
- Maintain the honest picture of the critical path, slips, risks, and decisions needed, surfaced early and framed for decision-makers.
- Lead execution of key company milestones involving multiple departments.
- Run the weekly cross-functional Truck Program operating cadence.
- Establish repeatable frameworks, procedures, and decision loops for fast, efficient scale.
- Produce executive-ready updates and program artifacts.
- Communicate clearly with technical, operational, commercial, and executive audiences.
Success Metrics:
- Within 90 days: one integrated roadmap believed by Autonomy, Operations, Sales, and Account Management, with the Truck Program meeting running off it.
- First driverless launch with no dependency discovered in the final month that was knowable earlier.
- Leadership learning about slips from you with options before hearing from customers.
- Decisions with a date, owner, and record to prevent re-decisions.
Requirements:
- 7+ years in program or product leadership in complex technical and operational environments (autonomous vehicles, automotive, aerospace, robotics, aviation, defense, logistics, or similar physical-world deployment).
- Track record integrating programs across teams you did not control, in businesses with hardware, software, safety, and operations in the loop.
- Technical fluency to understand why autonomy or hardware milestones slip and assess recovery plan credibility without being the engineer.
- Ability to separate facts, assumptions, and risks in writing and speech; comfortable delivering difficult messages to senior people early with options.
- Builds minimum viable structure and upgrades or removes it when it stops working.
- Executive-grade verbal and written communication; influence primarily through documents and problem framing.
- Can set direction for programs others execute with no direct reports while remaining accountable for outcomes.
Strongly Preferred:
- Ownership mentality; initiative and willingness to work in the trenches with key stakeholders.
- Ability to vary detail level by audience and moment.
- Experience running weekly holistic program reviews.
- Experience taking physical products from pilot to commercial deployment with real readiness gates and launch dates.
- Experience working with safety or systems-engineering functions on go/no-go decisions.
- Experience with OEM or supplier delivery schedules as commercial plan dependencies.
- Zero-to-one program experience at early-stage or scaling companies.
Nice to Have:
- Direct experience in autonomous trucking, freight, or AV commercialization.
- Experience working with operations and/or commercial teams.
