Director of Product, May Mobility
$160-230k
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Self-driving shuttle & mobility services
Open for applications
Self-driving shuttle & mobility services
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$160-230k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world.
Role
Who you are
- Autonomy System Expertise: Proven experience with autonomous vehicle technology is required for effectively debating technical tradeoffs with engineering leaders
- Technical Translator: This role requires the ability to translate complex business goals into precise, engineering-ready technical requirements (PRDs/MRDs)
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Proficiency in analyzing vehicle telemetry and operational metrics is essential for justifying and pivoting roadmap decisions
- Stakeholder Alignment: This individual must have proven ability to manage conflict and drive consensus among senior cross-functional leaders
- Prioritization Rigor: Demonstrated ability to be "ruthless" in prioritization is necessary to balance partner value against foundational autonomy investment
- Communication: Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and efficiently at all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level
- Organization: Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and organizational skills
- Driven: Ability to work effectively and meet objectives without day-to-day direction
- 10+ years experience in the field of autonomy, robotics and commercialization of products
- BA/BS degree or equivalent
- Experience in Automotive, Transportation, Software as a Service and/or AI industries highly preferred
- The candidate must possess direct operational knowledge of ride-hail, PUDO logistics, and the last-mile problem
- Must have solid experience in launching green field products and managing the complete product life cycles (customer insights→ idea→ build→ launch→ measure→ learn→ continuously improve in-market→ end-of-life)
- Experience leading, managing, and developing teams of product and engineering personnel
- Proven success working in a start-up/small business where there are minimal resources, nothing comes easy and things don't always work as planned
- Experience building and maintaining strong, long-lasting client relationships
- Ability to undergo a driving record check
- If you’re excited about this role but your previous experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may be the perfect candidate for this or another role at May
What the job involves
- The Director of Product will help oversee and direct several activities for May Mobility as it relates to product development, product strategy, competitive positioning and product marketing
- This will lead and guide product strategy & planning to identify and take advantage of market, industry and economic opportunities while mitigating risks
- This leader will share our values to solve one of the toughest problems in mobility while providing the highest level of service to our customers - with a passion for technology and finding ways to improve mobility to make people's lives better
- Lead a team of product managers that span across autonomous driving technology, application software, data & analytics, and vehicle hardware
- Create compelling & inspiring product visions, strategies and roadmaps for several areas by collaborating with internal stakeholders and leveraging market, behavior & technology trends
- Collaborate across other key stakeholders in product management, engineering, BD, customer success, etc. on product vision & strategy
- Implement a unified product development process based on being a highly iterative, learning organization and by managing internal and external resources throughout the product life cycle (customer insights→ launch→ post-launch improvements→ end-of-life)
- Ensure that product roadmaps are customer and innovation driven and create compelling and lasting competitive advantage
- Ensure pricing and value analysis is developed to maximize competitiveness, volume and profit for all products while meeting budget requirements
- Communicate product vision, strategy, positioning and plans with other leaders and stakeholders
- Define OKRs for team and products and deliver on them
- Ensure collaboration of cross-functional teams to develop refined and improved KPI processes
- Set market research objectives and ensure the market research team serves May Mobility to the highest possible level
- Provide support with special projects as requested
- Travel required - Moderate: 11%-25%
Our take
As automobile companies across the globe make advancements in the booming autonomous vehicle market, May Mobility’s microtransit services bridge transportation gaps by providing safe, accessible, and free autonomous public transport.
The company operates low-speed (35mph) public transport AVs. It began with a fleet of 20 vehicles in Ann Arbor, and has since launched in a number of other locations across the US, as well as in Nagoya, Japan. By steadily increasing its vehicle deployments, May Mobility has been able to create a name for itself as the market begins to open up.
The company has also raised an impressive amount of capital which supports expanded commercial efforts and the advancement of its technology. In 2026, it launched upgraded architecture that will empower its AVs to understand and reason through the physical world.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2025
$7m
LATE VC
Nov 2023
$105m
SERIES D
Total funding: $392.6m
Company benefits
- Onsite, Hybrid, and Remote Work Options
Company HQ
Pittsfield Charter Township, MI
Leadership
Edwin Olson
(CEO & Founder)Current Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Former Co-Director of Autonomous Driving Development at Toyota Research Institute.
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