Robotaxi Program Lead — Autonomy & Launch Strategy

Waabi; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 235,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Health and Wellness benefits (Medical,

Unlimited Vacation

Flexible hours and Work from Home

Daily snacks and meals

Team events, onsite and virtual

Equity awards and annual bonus

Job summary

Waabi is searching for a program management leader to own the robotaxi integration roadmap, coordinating engineering, operations, and external partners to deliver a safe, scalable rider experience.

You will drive cross-functional planning, maturity, and market readiness while shaping go-to-market strategy and ensuring alignment with Waabi’s trucking roadmap and shared platform investments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical program management experience.
• Direct experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical environments.
• Ability to build program structure from scratch with dependencies and risk registers.
• Strong fluency across hardware, software, and autonomy/ML domains.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; executive reporting.
• Proven cross-functional leadership without formal authority.
• Hands-on experience with project tracking tools such as Jira or Asana.
• BS or MS in Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the integrated robotaxi program plan with milestones and cross-team dependencies.
• Own program-level risk management with data-backed options and clear ownership.
• Drive launch and market-readiness planning across vehicle readiness, ODD coverage, safety sign-off, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Autonomy, Safety, Commercial, and Operations to translate strategy into executable roadmaps.
• Build and run executive reporting on program status, risk, and path-to-green for leadership.
• Define and track KPIs for driverless operation readiness (ODD, disengagements, system readiness, rider experience).
• Establish scalable processes and tooling for robotaxi program tracking as the program scales.
• Represent the robotaxi program in cross-company planning and align with trucking roadmap and shared investments.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Exec reporting

Stakeholder influence

Risk management

Autonomy/ML exposure

Communication

Hardware/software fluency

Education

BS/MS in Engineering

Tools

Jira

Asana

Job description

Waabi is searching for a program management leader to own the robotaxi integration roadmap, coordinating engineering, operations, and external partners to deliver a safe, scalable rider experience.

You will drive cross-functional planning, maturity, and market readiness while shaping go-to-market strategy and ensuring alignment with Waabi’s trucking roadmap and shared platform investments.