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Leads Aurora’s global marketing, external and internal communications, public relations, creative, brand, and messaging strategy. Builds and mentors multidisciplinary teams, develops enterprise B2B demand strategies, manages executive and crisis communications, measures program impact, and coordinates narratives with government, investor, business development, and people teams. Owns brand reputation and stakeholder engagement in a highly scrutinized, safety-critical autonomous vehicle industry.

Owns end-to-end software and vehicle release operations, including release trains, branching, build triage, hotfixes, release communications, and compliance gating. The role drives automation, predictive prevention, AI/ML-enabled triage, auditable safety practices, and scalable change control across engineering, safety, hardware, and test teams in a safety-critical autonomous vehicle environment.

Develop reporting, analytics, metrics, and dashboards to optimize autonomous-vehicle data collection and software development processes. Partner with data scientists, software leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize data sourcing, build scalable data pipelines, monitor operational processes, and communicate insights. The role uses on-road and simulation data to support Aurora Driver development and commercialization.

Designs, deploys, operates, and scales enterprise network infrastructure across offices, manufacturing sites, and truck terminals. Leads network security, routing, switching, wireless, VPN, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives. Owns complex deployments, incident response, capacity planning, documentation, and cross-functional network projects. Mentors engineers, manages vendor and carrier relationships, participates in on-call support, and occasionally travels to company and partner facilities.

Leads Aurora’s Vehicle Product Management team, setting strategy and coordinating product managers across the vehicle and hardware portfolio. Defines requirements, roadmaps, metrics, and prioritization for autonomous vehicle hardware; manages lifecycles from concept through integration and field support; collaborates with engineering, design, OEMs, suppliers, regulatory, legal, and safety teams; and communicates priorities to leadership.

Build and maintain an AI-native application security program for autonomous trucking software and infrastructure. Partner with engineering teams on secure design and remediation, investigate vulnerabilities, threat model systems, contribute production code, develop security automation and developer tooling, and integrate preventative controls into the software development lifecycle. Use AI to scale investigations while validating results and explaining technical reasoning.

Design, implement, and harden enterprise security controls across endpoints, identity, networks, and data. Configure security platforms, develop Python and Go automation, maintain macOS, Linux, and Windows security baselines, support network security and vulnerability management, and contribute to SIEM detection pipelines. The role partners with IT and Engineering, delivers scoped security projects, and participates in an on-call rotation.

Lead cross-functional initiatives to mature cloud and enterprise detection infrastructure, including telemetry pipelines, detection-as-code, logging, and scalable coverage. Design and tune detections for cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, CI/CD, and service-to-service threats. Conduct threat hunting, support incident response and on-call operations, apply threat intelligence and adversary emulation, mentor SOC engineers, and improve detection capabilities based on incident lessons learned.

Build and operate Aurora’s cloud infrastructure and developer platform. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes upgrades, developing developer-facing tooling, operating Kubernetes services, improving development velocity, and collaborating across teams to gather requirements and advance platform projects.

Lead hardware/software integration and new vehicle bring-up programs for autonomous trucks. Partner with software, firmware, hardware engineering, product, operations, and industry partners to plan and deliver software for new hardware platforms from conception through on-road deployment. Facilitate executive reviews, manage risks and dependencies, remove execution obstacles, improve bring-up processes, and incorporate operational feedback into product and development improvements.