Product Manager, Autonomy

Who We Are

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. We have an elite team of entrepreneurs and engineers, designers, and scientists. We believe AI and robotics are at the cusp of transforming daily life and we are dedicated to building meaningful products with this technology. Join us and play a critical role in our mission.

About the Role

As a Product Manager in Nuro’s Autonomy organization, your mandate is to accelerate the pace at which Nuro develops and ultimately deploys its autonomous driving technology.

The Product Management team is small, nimble, and focused on driving high-impact initiatives and new projects rather than the day-to-day direction of software development. As a result, the role demands technical fluency, a high degree of self-direction, and a strong sense for value and prioritization.

About the Work

You drive major strategic initiatives and areas of technology development.

• Inform the autonomy roadmap. You understand how our autonomy software capabilities and limitations impact our commercial operations. You use your understanding of the big picture to define and prioritize the capabilities we need.
• Bring clarity to how robots ought to behave. You figure out how our robots should ideally behave in the many diverse situations they encounter. You devise scalable methods of evaluating whether or not they are behaving ideally in practice, along with the feedback loops for continuous improvement.
• Build innovative tools. You drive step changes in development and deployment speed by building AV simulation tools that are as informative as on-road testing.
• Be a force multiplier for our autonomy engineers. You define and communicate product goals, requirements, and constraints. You surface problems and dig in to fully understand the root cause. You source and synthesize feedback from internal experts, design experiments, and translate your research into solutions. You define success, measure progress, and come up with creative ways to push the pace.

About You

• Strategic: You know the value and priority level for every product you are working on and every feature you propose -- both to your customer, and to the business overall. 
• Structured Thinker: You create structure and extract principles for the messiest systems. You surface the most crucial unanswered questions and drive to answers.
• Data-Driven: You can extract important insights from whatever data is available, even if it is sparse or imperfect. You highlight valuable data we don’t have and how to collect it.
• Customer-Driven: You develop deep empathy for your customer, fully internalize their needs, and have a strong intuition about the best ways to meet them.
• Technically fluent: You have experience building tools for engineers and other highly technical users.
• Trusted partner: You know what is blocking your engineers, and how you can make their lives easier. Engineers instinctively turn to you for guidance and clarity.
• Self-directed: You proactively sort out the most important thing to work on. You take accountability for your projects, and don’t need to be told how to execute on them.
• Influential communicator: You are skilled at collecting input from, and presenting insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. 

You must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by your hire date to be eligible to start the role. Proof of vaccination will be required by your start date. Nuro will consider and review accommodation requests based on medical, religious, or other grounds as required by applicable law for qualified candidates.