Senior Product Manager, In-Vehicle & Operator Experience

ATOMS Careers page; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Sick Time & PTO

Team lunch

Job summary

Atoms is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the operator and in-vehicle experience across our autonomous platforms. You will define how a person sees, hears, and acts around a self-driving system, shaping state communication and fault handling.

You’ll lead requirements, validation, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, safety, hardware, and deployment teams. The role requires onsite work in San Francisco and regular travel to customer sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a technical, design, human factors, or related field.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a human-facing product in production.
• Experience owning human-machine interface products in automotive, aviation, heavy equipment, industrial controls, medical devices, or a comparable domain.
• Experience designing for constrained operating conditions (heavy vibration, glare, limited connectivity).
• Demonstrated human factors practice with usability testing and measurable comprehension/response.
• Experience collaborating with industrial design, hardware, and safety engineering on products with both physical and digital surfaces.
• Ability to drive a product direction across teams outside your reporting line.
• Strong written communication across requirements, interaction specs, and decision records.
• Experience delivering where product, autonomy system, and customer operation develop concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Own In-Vehicle Experience: define how the vehicle communicates state, intent, and confidence.
• Own Operator Experience for people around autonomous machines and on-site operators.
• Define requirements for commands, confirmations, degraded states, stop behavior, and lockout with safety/engineering.
• Define validation methods for comprehension, response time, and error rate under working conditions.
• Own software interfaces and physical controls, and partner with hardware/design on placement.
• Collaborate with training/field ops to reduce required onboarding.
• Write product requirements, maintain roadmap, and manage delivery with engineering.
• Conduct field research with operators and translate findings into decisions.
• Partner with engineering, safety, hardware, and deployment to represent products to customers.

Skills

Product management

End-to-end ownership

HMI product experience

Human factors

Cross-functional collaboration

Written communication

Onsite collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical/design/human factors or related field

Job description

Atoms is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the operator and in-vehicle experience across our autonomous platforms. You will define how a person sees, hears, and acts around a self-driving system, shaping state communication and fault handling.

You’ll lead requirements, validation, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, safety, hardware, and deployment teams. The role requires onsite work in San Francisco and regular travel to customer sites.