Senior Technical Product Manager, Cruise
For Developer Productivity & Experience
$142.8-210k
Self-driving vehicles
Open for applications
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$142.8-210k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8 years of technical product management experience at a fast-paced technology company
- Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure with a focus in Developer Productivity and Developer Experience
- Experience with Build/CI Platforms and ML Compute/Workload scheduling
- A Degree in Computer Science, or 2+ years of related experience in software development, QA, or infrastructure
- Experience formulating and driving a principled product vision, and being responsible for the narrative with leadership and key team members
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners
- Experience leading critical initiatives that span across multiple teams with conflicting priorities and schedules
- Ability to generate crucial product insights through risk assessments, quantitative, and qualitative analysis
- Outstanding communication skills: verbal and written, with engineers, non-technical partners, and executives
- Deep appreciation for developers and customers alike
What the job involves
- The Infrastructure team’s mission is to create an efficient, reliable and scalable foundation to accelerate the development, launch and expansion of autonomous technology
- Infrastructure at Cruise builds the foundational enterprise, developer, site, and cloud technology and operations that Cruisers rely on every day
- We enable robust, modern, reliable, and secure infrastructure that provides the innovation, insights, and efficiency for teams to meet Cruise’s near and long term goals!
- We are looking for a Senior Product Management II - Technical (PMT) to be responsible for the product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for some of our most critical Infrastructure initiatives
- As a PMT you will be expected to deliver efficient, reliable, resilient, and scalable products that accelerate the development and operation of autonomous technology
- In this position, you will work cross-functionally to deliver solutions that have a direct impact on the growth of Cruise
- You will work closely with several critical team members and Senior Management to influence the direction of the product
- To be successful in this role you will need to use your extensive background and expertise in the areas of developer productivity, developer experience, reliability, and ML compute
- PMT’s guide our teams to build the right products at the right time, enabling Cruise to launch the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles at scale
- At Cruise, Technical Product Managers are responsible for defining the “what” and “why”, to ensure we capture requirements and build the right products for our internal and external customers
- Develop the Product Vision, Strategy, and Roadmaps - PMTs obsess over their customers. They craft compelling narratives that distill opposing needs, provide comprehensive solutions, and align diverse partners. They focus on impact and outcomes, over pure output
- Deploy Critical Thinking - PMTs think big and dive deep, relative to the situation. They balance trade-offs to improve value to the company. They seek to understand before proposing solutions, especially when the path forward is unclear
- Lead Prioritization - PMTs should drive high quality decisions efficiently, and (re-)prioritize ruthlessly. They create a bias towards action for themselves and their teams. They deliver results, going above and beyond to do so
- Engage with Customers - PMTs collect, lead, and discover new opportunities to delight our customers. They act in a critical role as the primary advocate for and voice of the customer
- Partner with Leadership - PMTs build consensus, in all types of situations. They earn trust with their customers, teams, and partners. They inspire others to greatness, and lead by example
- Demonstrate Strong Technical Skills - PMTs build and maintain technical understanding of their domains. They can discuss technical trade-offs on systems, and are able to absorb new or unfamiliar context quickly. They understand technical decisions and impacts that the team has made
- Collect/lead ideas and discover new opportunities (idea management)
- Own “what” problems need to be solved and define “why” the solution is needed
- Create roadmaps of initiatives and features to solve for company goals
- Launch new initiatives, test their performance, and iterate quickly
- Create Product requirement documents (PRDs) that outline the success criteria for an initiative, function or product
- Create detailed design documentation to intent where possible
- Develop Pareto documents to conduct detailed analysis to identity the relative importance of various items and determine the greatest opportunity for impact
- Be the directly responsible individual for their success and will work with the teams to correct if trending in the wrong direction
- Help prioritize features and initiatives to hit company goals
Our take
The taxi industry has seen dramatic changes through mobile vehicle-hailing apps such as Uber, but these services focus simply on ease-of-access to regular taxi services. The automotive industry has seen a vast range of innovations in recent years such as electric cars and self-driving capability, features that are currently not found in existing services.
Cruise brings self-driving autonomy and electric cars together into a taxi-hailing mobile application. In addition to these innovations, the service focuses on efficiency through ride-sharing as opposed to each ride providing a single trip. Whilst other taxi-hailing services will inevitably turn to electric self-driving vehicles, Cruise shows potential to stand out through its AI-fuelled focus on carpooling and fleet efficiency.
Cruise, which has been acquired by General Motors, has received an inordinate amount of funding, including from Honda and Microsoft, with Softbank investing over $2B to scale its technology. A sum of this came after Cruise launched a limited driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco. However, the company is now facing lawsuits from the city to limit its operations there after a series of accidents involving Cruise's vehicles.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Jun 2024
$850m
LATE VC
Feb 2022
$1.3bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $9.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- One Medical membership
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays
- Paid parental, family care and medical leave
- Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise)
- Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
- CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time
Company values
- Stay safe
- Stay focused
- Own it
- Seek truth
- Work together
- Be humble
- Be a customer
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Craig Glidden
(CEO (Not Founder))Is also currently the Executive Vice President of General Motors in its Legal wing.
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