Senior Product Manager, Kodiak Robotics
Autonomy
$160-220k
+ Equity and biannual bonuses
More information about location
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Self-driving technology for long-haul trucks
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Self-driving technology for long-haul trucks
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-220k
+ Equity and biannual bonuses
More information about location
Office located in Mountain View, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
Kodiak Robotics' mission is to carry freight forward—so people, partners, and the planet thrive.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly skilled Product Manager to drive the development of our Level 4 autonomous trucking solutions across commercial and defense applications
- 5+ years experience as a technical product manager
- Demonstrated experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or advanced driver assistance systems
- Ability to effectively collaborate with both engineering teams and external stakeholders
- Exceptional communication skills with experience presenting to and negotiating with senior stakeholders
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Security Clearance
What the job involves
- In this role, you will shape the product requirements and roadmap for our over-the-road, industrial trucking, and defense platforms
- Define and maintain comprehensive product requirements and strategic roadmaps for Kodiak's defense and commercial autonomous vehicle platforms
- Lead requirements development for the full autonomous driving stack, including autonomy software, sensors, compute, vehicle integration, and supporting software systems
- Conduct customer discovery to deeply understand operational needs, translating insights into prioritized feature development and system improvements
- Partner with engineering teams to develop pragmatic technical solutions that balance customer needs with program constraints and timelines
- Drive cross-functional collaboration between defense, commercialization, and core engineering teams to ensure feasible scope and aligned objectives
- Establish feedback loops from deployed products, synthesizing operational data and customer input into actionable engineering requirements
- Build deep domain expertise through regular site visits, understanding customer operations and identifying new use case opportunities
- Perform quantitative analysis to validate requirements and ensure strong product-market fit across different segments
- Help to triage issues, balancing customer impact with engineering resources
Our take
Global supply chains rely on frictionless long-haul trucking freight networks, but the repetitive and stationary nature of the job has resulted in a lack of willing drivers. Whilst this has been partially resolved through the introduction of self-driving trucks, such systems are notoriously difficult to maintain which ultimately leads to significant downtime.
Kodiak Robotics develops self-driving technology for long-haul trucks, providing wing mirrors built with sensors called Kodiak SensorPods. These sensors provide the technology necessary for the trucks to be driven safely and autonomously and have been designed to be replaced or serviced rapidly to minimize downtime.
Whilst the company’s most significant challenge will present itself as other self-driving truck providers, Kodiak Robotics has taken a unique approach by recognizing the high-maintenance nature of existing self-driving systems, innovating upon this through its easily replaceable SensorPods. Through this approach and several successful rounds of funding, the company aims to fill empty truck driving positions with safer AI drivers, whilst ensuring its technology is quick and simple to maintain.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$75m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2021
$125m
SERIES B
Total funding: $240m
Company benefits
- Remote-friendly work environment
- 401k
- Generous PTO policy
- Life insurance
- Assortment of medical (PPO/HMO/HDHP), dental, vision, and FSA plans
- Family-friendly company events
- Dog-friendly office
- Employee-driven fitness classes
- Beautiful, renovated facilities in Mountain View, CA and Lancaster, TX
- Free EV charging
- Trivia and board game nights
Company values
- Safety, first and always - Build procedures to support responsible decision-making. Reinforce safe choices as a community. Safety first always; no breaks, no exceptions
- Intellectual honesty, principled debate - Seek the truth, especially when it’s inconvenient. Speak with passion, but respect diverse points of view to move towards execution
- Disciplined innovation - Focus, efficiency and elegance. Learn from experience. Solve meaningful problems. Behave responsibly
- Better together. For a better future - Seek out best-in-class collaborators. Embrace our ecosystem of diversity—from fellow Kodiak-ers, and customers to the people we share the roads with
- Exceed expectations. Earn respect. Repeat - Deliver seamless experiences wherever possible. Build trust through action. Consistent and constant accountability
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Articles
Leadership
Don Burnette
(CEO)Experience as Co-founder of Otto. Software Technical Lead at Uber from 2016 to 2018.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kodiak Robotics
- At Kodiak, we strive to build a diverse community working towards our common company goals in a safe and collaborative environment where harassment of any kind is strictly prohibited. Kodiak is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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