Senior Vehicle Product Lead — Hardware & Scale

Aurora; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 316,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to lead the Vehicle Product Management team, driving the strategy and roadmap for our vehicle hardware platform and associated integrations.

You will collaborate with engineering, UX, and design, align with external partners, and manage lifecycle from concept to field support, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance while scaling to thousands of trucks on the road.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience or 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Engineering or equivalent technical degree.
• Experience in leading product development of complex systems, especially hardware and/or production vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of product managers by goal-setting and coordinating work across Aurora's entire vehicle and hardware portfolio.
• Map technical capabilities to product or customer value to inform hardware development and prioritization.
• Coordinate with User Experience and Industrial Design to deliver physical user touchpoints across products.
• Review operating domain criteria to identify impacted hardware requirements.
• Develop product-relevant vehicle platform integration requirements.
• Define and analyze metrics that inform success of products and projects.
• Communicate strategy, roadmap, plans, and priorities to stakeholders and leadership.
• Meet with counterparts at vehicle OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and other hardware partners to align roadmaps and business models.
• Manage hardware product lifecycles from concept through prototype validation, OEM integration, serviceability, and field support.
• Work with regulatory, legal, and safety teams to comply with autonomous vehicle regulations.

Skills

Leadership

Product management

Hardware systems

Automotive production

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Aurora is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to lead the Vehicle Product Management team, driving the strategy and roadmap for our vehicle hardware platform and associated integrations.

You will collaborate with engineering, UX, and design, align with external partners, and manage lifecycle from concept to field support, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance while scaling to thousands of trucks on the road.