Senior Product Manager, Cyngn
Cyngn Insight & Fleet Management
$160-180k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Industrial autonomous vehicle technology
Open for applications
Industrial autonomous vehicle technology
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$160-180k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To address significant challenges facing industrial organizations today, such as labor shortages and costly safety incidents.
Role
Who you are
- BS/BA in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.5+ years of product management experience, including at least 2 years in a senior or lead PM role
- Demonstrated success delivering complex, multi-tenant software platforms or enterprise products operating at scale
- Strong technical aptitude with experience working closely with engineering teams on distributed systems, data platforms, or cloud-based products
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with comfort engaging executives, customers, and deeply technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to drive alignment and execution across multiple teams in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.Strategic mindset with a track record of translating technical capabilities into clear customer and business value
Desirable
- Experience with fleet management systems, enterprise SaaS platforms, or operational analytics products
- Background in software development, data platforms, or systems engineering (e.g., Python, SQL, cloud infrastructure)
- Familiarity with autonomous vehicles, robotics operations, industrial automation, or large-scale deployments in logistics, manufacturing, or warehousing
What the job involves
- Cyngn is expanding its Product Management organization and is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of Cyngn Insight and Fleet Management, the company’s core software platform for operating, monitoring, and scaling autonomous vehicle fleets in production environments
- This role owns the end-to-end product lifecycle for Cyngn’s customer-facing autonomy platform—covering fleet operations, telemetry, analytics, safety monitoring, workflow orchestration, and enterprise integrations. Cyngn Insight is central to how customers deploy, operate, and extract value from autonomous vehicles at scale
- You will be the senior product owner responsible for defining what operational excellence looks like for autonomy in real-world industrial settings—and ensuring the platform delivers it. This role sits at the intersection of autonomy software, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise operations, requiring strong systems thinking, customer empathy, and cross-functional leadership
- We are looking for a seasoned product leader who can operate at both the strategic and execution layers: setting multi-quarter platform direction while driving day-to-day prioritization and delivery across multiple engineering and stakeholder teams. You will partner closely with Engineering, Program Management, Sales, and Customer Success to scale autonomy from early deployments to large, multi-site fleets
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Cyngn Insight and Fleet Management, including fleet operations, monitoring, analytics, safety workflows, and enterprise integrations
- Define and maintain a multi-quarter roadmap that balances customer needs, operational scalability, system reliability, security, and commercial objectives
- Act as the senior product owner for fleet and operations initiatives, driving clear prioritization, trade-off decisions, and execution across concurrent programs
- Partner with Engineering and Program Management to translate platform strategy into actionable requirements, milestones, and delivery plans
- Translate customer workflows, operational data, and deployment feedback into product requirements that improve fleet uptime, efficiency, safety visibility, and ease of use
- Collaborate with Sales, Business Development, Marketing, and Customer Success on go-to-market strategy, customer onboarding, and long-term account success
- Define, track, and communicate success metrics (KPIs) for fleet performance and platform adoption, including utilization, uptime, incident response, and customer value realization
- Engage directly with customers and strategic partners to validate product direction and ensure alignment with real-world operational needs.Serve as a product leader within the organization—modeling clear communication, strong ownership, and a data-driven, collaborative product culture
Our take
From the switch from manual driving to automatic in the 40s, and now the rise of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the past 5-10 years, cars have come a long way. While much of the attention has focused on consumer-facing self-driving cars, it's often overlooked how many industrial vehicles are now capable of operating, at least in part, without direct driver control.
Cyngn is a well-established company providing autonomous vehicles solutions for these environments. Its DriveMod product is designed to integrate with existing workflows, allowing businesses to introduce automation without major infrastructure changes. Rather than focusing purely on capability, the company emphasizes practical deployment, aiming to deliver systems that can reliably handle real-world industrial tasks.
Cyngn has raised significant funding since its founding in 2009, reflecting both the strength of its technology and continued investor confidence. Alongside partnerships with companies like US Continental and Jtec Industries, the business is still actively securing new capital, with a recent $8.65M raise aimed at supporting further development and scaling its autonomous solutions,. With DriveMod already deployed across vehicles like tuggers and forklifts, Cyngn is positioning itself to capitalize on growing demand from industrial and logistics operators looking to address labor shortages and improve safety through automation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2015
$85m
SERIES C
Dec 2013
$23m
SERIES B
Total funding: $115m
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Lior Tal
(CEO)Lior joined Cyngn in 2016 as COO, moving into the role of CEO that same year. Previously, he spent over 5 years at Facebook as a Director of Growth & Partnerships. He also founded Snaptu where he served as the company's VP of Business Development for nearly 4 years.
Natalie Russell
(CFO)Natalie joined Cyngn in 2023 as the Director of Accounting, she then became the Interim CFO in January 2025 and became CFO later that same year. Previously, she was a Technical Accounting Manager at SOAProjects. She also spent over 5 years at EY in various Audit roles.
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