Sr Product Manager - Autonomy Software

Kodiak is seeking a highly skilled Senior Product Manager to drive the development of our Level 4 autonomous trucking solutions across different customer applications. In this role you will be the directly responsible individual for the full product lifecycle for your area of responsibility, which requires a unique blend of technical depth in autonomous systems, product sense, business acumen, and program execution rigor with a strong understanding of customer-centric product deployment.

In this role, you will:

• Autonomy Roadmap: Define and evolve the roadmap for autonomy software, balancing near-term milestones with long-term scalability across multiple business verticals.
• Driving Performance: Own the definition of safe, reliable, and productive driving. Partner with engineering to design and prioritize improvements in driving behavior, obstacle handling, and interactions with dynamic actors
• Operational Design Domain (ODD): Own the product domain for where and how the Kodiak Driver can safely and productively operate
• Define requirements across road types, surfaces, and topology
• Specify environmental operating ranges
• Expand support for diverse environments including commercial highways, off-highway industrial domains, and defense missions.
• Prioritize ODD expansion in a roadmap that balances business needs, safety, and technical feasibility.
• Route Support: Oversee route bring-up, risk assessment, and validation frameworks for expanding into new operating domains.
• Data-Driven Prioritization: Define and track KPIs around driving performance and safety. Use data to identify failure modes, measure improvements, and prioritize engineering focus.
• Support: Build workflows for human-in-the-loop support of our commercially deployed self-driving trucks, considering fallback strategies, and safety guardrails.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with planning, perception, ML/AI, and data teams to align development efforts with product requirements for driving behavior and ODD growth.
• Stakeholder Communication: Provide clear updates to leadership, engineering, and customers on autonomy software maturity, ODD readiness, and roadmap progress.
• Travel - 25% travel required to visit Kodiak commercial deployment locations.

What you’ll bring:

• 8+ years experience working in product management roles, ideally in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or logistics.
• A passion to work with a team to solve technical problems, and create simple solutions
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to effectively strategize, prioritize, and execute 
• Ability to build credibility and strong relationships within the engineering and operations organizations, but also with external stakeholders and customers
• Results-motivated with an ability to identify and solve the most pressing problems
• Technical background with Masters degree or above in engineering, computer science or related field

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation package including equity and biannual bonuses
• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Anthem, and Guardian (including a medical plan with infertility benefits)
• Flexible PTO and generous parental leave policies
• Our office is centrally located in Mountain View, CA
• Office perks: dog-friendly, free catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and free EV charging
• Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
• Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health
• Fidelity 401(k)
• Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
• Various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.)