Senior Product Manager, Construction Autonomy & Robotics

Blue River Technology; Santa Clara (CA); Vor Ort; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

John Deere in Santa Clara seeks an experienced product manager to partner with engineering and GTM teams on a zero-to-one journey for construction autonomy.

You will define the autonomy strategy from concept to MVP, validate early concepts through rapid customer-facing experiments, and build deep empathy for customers, the business, and the market.

Collaborate with leadership on long-term vision while owning the data collection strategy and model development to support performance and safety.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in CS/engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a product manager in a technology company.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and modern product management methodologies.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence and collaborate across diverse teams.

Aufgaben

• Help define, validate, and shepherd the construction autonomy strategy from concept to success.
• Collaborate with Deere Product & Engineering teams to define the right early target customer, ODD, and MVP.
• Drive rapid customer-facing experimentation to validate ideas.
• Build empathy and understanding of customer, business, and market through qualitative and quantitative research.
• Define requirements for perception, SLAM, ODD, collision hazard detection, and safety system adherence for the Core Autonomy System.
• Define in-field machine behavior requirements: path planning, guidance, controls.
• Define system performance criteria and ensure product meets evolving customer expectations.
• Define and execute data collection strategy to support model development; own the test set.
• Collaborate with leadership on long-term product vision and roadmap.
• Drive whatever it takes to make the product successful.

Kenntnisse

Robotics

AI/ML

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s or advanced degree in CS/Engineering

Jobbeschreibung

John Deere in Santa Clara seeks an experienced product manager to partner with engineering and GTM teams on a zero-to-one journey for construction autonomy.

You will define the autonomy strategy from concept to MVP, validate early concepts through rapid customer-facing experiments, and build deep empathy for customers, the business, and the market.

Collaborate with leadership on long-term vision while owning the data collection strategy and model development to support performance and safety.