Staff Technical Product Manager, Autonomy Performance

We’re Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about.

We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields.

With a culture of internal mobility, there’s an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines.

This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.

If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.

As a Staff Technical Product Manager, Autonomy Performance , you’ll align your team around a vision for the future and lead the charge to turn that vision into reality.

You’ll focus on perfecting the learning cycle for our Cruise AV, enabling our AV engineering teams to learn from on-road and simulated driving to prioritize the most impactful features and ship new versions of the AV that achieve superhuman performance.  At Cruise, our engineers face challenges that are unique to the AV industry and, in this role, you’ll lead the delivery of equally unique solutions.

Product Managers at Cruise work across infrastructure, platform, data science, and AV teams.

In this role, you’ll work on delivering the tools, processes, and systems that enable faster and better experimentation, from a micro level with individual AV engineers, to a macro level across the entire AV stack and release process.

You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, design, program management, and operations to build out a roadmap to realize your vision.  You’ll keep teams focused on what is most important for the company; setting priorities, defining requirements, and ensuring delivery.

What you’ll be doing:

• Establish a shared product vision and strategy for your product area, rooted in a deep understanding of the product domain and unmet customer needs
• Develop and execute an high impact product roadmap in close collaboration with technical customers, end users and senior leadership
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across engineering, operations, AV integrity, and technical program management
• Rapidly prioritize (and re-prioritize) product offerings based on impact, including defining clear success criteria so efforts are always focused around the most impactful work
• Communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions clearly across a wide spectrum of audiences from internal customers to executives
• Exemplify outstanding product development and management practices in everything you touch

What you must have:

• 5+ years of significant work experience in tech-related fields
• 5+ years of product management experience delivering highly impactful and innovative products at scale
• Experience formulating and driving a principled product vision, and being responsible for the narrative with leadership and key team members
• Experience leading product development from zero to first release and beyond
• Outstanding communication skills: verbal and written, with engineers, non-technical partners, and executives
• Thrive in ambiguity, crafting simplicity and order
• An ability to make things happen: a bias to action, never hesitant to roll up your sleeves and get to work
• Creativity and curiosity: you’re driven to find novel solutions and push forward an entire industry!

Why Cruise?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
  • Competitive salary and benefits 
  • 401(k) Cruise matching program 
  • Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
  • One Medical membership
  • Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
  • Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
  • Paid parental leave
  • Fertility Benefits 
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
  • Flexible Spending Account 
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees

• We’re Integrated
  • Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

• We’re Funded
  • GM, Honda, Microsoft, SoftBank, & T.

    Rowe Price, have invested billions in Cruise.

    Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry.

    Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.

• We’re Independent
  • We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors.

    Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.

• We’re Vested
  • You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too.

    We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. 

We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability.

Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email [email protected]

We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias.

Vaccine Mandate. 

At Cruise, we’re tasked with leading in the communities we serve — and doing our part to help keep our communities and our teams safe.

Our #StaySafe culture transcends and informs all we do, and because of this, as of October 31, 2021 Cruise will be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all US-based Cruisers who need or want to access any of our US Cruise facilities and engage in any business travel — including attending any in-person Company-sponsored event. 

If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or a strongly-held religious belief, Cruise will consider requests for an accommodation.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes.