Product Manager, Glydways
Solution Design
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Autonomous electric transportation
Open for applications
Autonomous electric transportation
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide a 24/7 mobility service solution that is environmentally net-negative in terms of greenhouse gas production (GHG), and, inherently profitable.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in product management experience in hardware and software product delivery
- Ability to envision use cases for a mass transit system and translate those use cases into concepts for further development
- Experience working on vehicle, autonomous systems, or other public transportation network systems
- Strong analytical skills, and ability to breakdown the impact of a new feature for estimated return on investment and the associated risks and benefits
- Strong communications skills and the ability to interface with a variety of stakeholders including highly technical evaluators and entities with limited experience with autonomous transportation solutions
- Experience simplifying complex concepts into easy to understand summaries
- Experience in the transit space is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Product Manager in Product Solutions for Glydways, and as part of the Solution Design Team, you will be at the forefront of designing and defining the systems that will drive the next generation of urban mobility
- You’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of world-class engineers, designers, planners, and project managers working together to create transit solutions that exceed the expectations of our diverse global customer base
- The Solution Design Team is a critical part of our commercial scaling and project development efforts, as no system is one-size-fits-all
- The team is ultimately built around customer success and the competitive application of the Glydways product toward securing contracts
- A critical first step is the evaluation of the business opportunity, project risks, and product fit
- This results in a flexible team that understands the Glydways product holistically, its strengths and weaknesses, and has the discipline to bring them to the forefront for evaluation, approval, proposal generation, product development education, and ultimately, commercial success
- Product Solutions goals are to: Facilitate market adoption through compelling, deliverable proposals, develop and deploy tools to scale initial project proposals, and generate input to product specification based on the voice of current and new customers
- Championing of key market insights and the voice of the customer and product commercial representation
- Ownership of the process and documentation to facilitate:
- Creation of product assets that combine both product rich information into easily consumed documentation
- That customer and market inputs have been identified, resolved into key project requirements, conduct research, and seek conceptual alignment with the product team
- Version control and prioritized feature development of scaling tools such as the Glydways system simulator, ridership projections, system calculators
- Consolidation of product deviations/ variants into strategic initiatives based on project value to feed future product roadmap
- Work, and grow, with the team to ensure insights are incorporated into proposals and support the “tip of the spear” on feature goal setting and market adoption
Our take
Although more than 4000 cities across the globe meet the threshold for necessary urban mass transit systems, under 5% of them have the capacity to make it a reality. Glydways' autonomous electricity-powered transport systems could provide a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative for the 95% without rail or transport systems.
Glydways' Personal Rapid Transit systems consist of battery-operated electric vehicles called Glydcars that travel on dedicated rights of way. These “roads” can be built above ground level or through tunnels, and can integrate with other forms of public transport already existing within the city or town.
Whilst the addition of Glydcars' infrastructure raises questions about additional costs, the company’s mass transit solution has nonetheless attracted positive attention and serious investment from the likes of Bill Gates' venture fund, Gates Frontier. Its Series C round of funding was followed by news that Glydway is involved in over 100 different mass transit projects, with a world tour of its vehicles taking place through 2025.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$56m
SERIES B
Total funding: $76m
Company HQ
Downtown, South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Seeger
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously Director of Digital Innovation at Ogilvy. Founded M Jeans and GreenIdea, and was a Product Design Engineer at Apple.
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