Lead PM, Autonomous Vehicle Platforms

Uber; United States; On-site; USD 216,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity

401(k) plan

In-office collaboration

Job summary

Uber is building the foundation for autonomy across vehicle platforms and partner ecosystems. We are seeking a Lead Product Manager for Autonomous Vehicle Platforms to define vehicle requirements, interfaces, and release criteria for reliable scaling of robotaxi deployments globally.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, engage with OEMs, and own technical product decisions with durable platform implications in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building and launching complex hardware or vehicle products from prototype through production, including managing firmware dependencies, validation, and release milestones.
• Experience working directly with OEMs and/or Tier 1 suppliers to define requirements, manage interfaces, and align on development and release schedules.
• Strong technical fluency in vehicle systems and architecture, with the ability to make sound product and integration trade-offs across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software domains.
• Proven ability to independently own ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and drive them from definition through execution.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience representing technical requirements with senior internal teams and external partners.
• Up to 40% domestic and international travel to work closely with OEMs and autonomy partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform strategy and requirements for Autonomous Vehicle Platforms, defining what partner vehicles must support to operate reliably and efficiently on Uber.
• Define and maintain minimum vehicle specifications across OEM partnerships and vehicle programs, ensuring each can support Uber’s current and future commercialization use cases.
• Own the evolving set of vehicle platform requirements across onboard hardware, embedded software, interfaces, and core system architecture, updating them based on partner needs and evolving autonomous technology.
• Partner closely with business development and vehicle strategy teams at Uber to align on cost and capability trade offs and roles and responsibilities for our partnerships.
• Serve as the primary technical product representative in partner and OEM engagements, driving alignment, resolving requirement gaps, and pulling in the right internal experts as needed.
• Drive key trade-off decisions across cost, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, scalability, and performance to ensure durable platform choices.
• Build the mechanisms needed to support execution at scale, including requirements documents, interface definitions, decision frameworks, and readiness criteria.
• Communicate roadmap direction, technical risks, requirement changes, and key decisions clearly to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Job description

Uber is building the foundation for autonomy across vehicle platforms and partner ecosystems. We are seeking a Lead Product Manager for Autonomous Vehicle Platforms to define vehicle requirements, interfaces, and release criteria for reliable scaling of robotaxi deployments globally.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, engage with OEMs, and own technical product decisions with durable platform implications in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.