Product Manager, MetaDriver
Oxbotica, United Kingdom
Job Description
Who are we?
Based in Oxford and with offices in Canada and the US, Oxbotica is an international startup founded in 2014 and scaling up rapidly (300+ Oxbots and growing).
As the global leader in our industry, we’re fuelled by a bold purpose: to make the Earth move better. From passenger shuttles to industrial vehicles, our operating system for Universal Autonomy is transforming the way people and goods are transported by enabling any vehicle, in any environment, to operate autonomously safely, securely and efficiently.
Our technology is capturing investors’ imagination. To date we’ve raised $140 million in our Series C investment round. Accommodating growing demand from new and current shareholders, this funding is driving our expansion in North America and EMEA , and accelerating the deployment of our technology in domains where there is both urgent need and potential to scale.
Your Team
You will join our Product team, where we collaborate with groups inside and outside of Oxbotica to build and execute successful product strategies. Motivated by our philosophy to build once, sell many times, our work enables the company to generate maximum revenue by deploying its technology to multiple partners.
Your Role
Oxbotica MetaDriver is a unique product that addresses several questions arising in autonomous vehicle development. MetaDriver uses GenerativeAI techniques to synthesise data which enables rapid Verification and Validation (V amp; V) and runtime assurance of autonomous vehicles. It reduces costs, speeds up product lifecycles and will enable lifelong updates to deployed autonomy systems without being stalled by long test cycles.
- Define products with razor sharp value propositions that best achieve product-market fit.
- Responsible for the product business case, consisting of product/service description, customer use cases, TAM/SAM, product cost model, NPV of product opportunity for Oxbotica, competitive analysis, risks and constraints.
- Championing and advancing the use of system-wide numerical performance metrics and using them to track progress of capabilities, product performance and confirm product market fit.
- Construct a user experience workflow and conduct product gap analyses to identify required capabilities.
- Work with subject matter experts to identify technical challenges with an actionable problem breakdown.
- Maintain a product roadmap and product backlog, and interact with technical teams to ensure milestone dates are committed and trustworthy.
- Strategize the rollout of capabilities and features based on customer priorities, and increasing levels of service.
- Support the commercial team’s search, discovery and evaluation of new opportunities.
- Support the program managers tending to commercial engagements within your product domain, to align program goals to product roadmaps and communicate expectations to customers.
- Regularly report product development health to internal stakeholders and leadership.
- Participate in customer calls and visits to understand customer needs, and to advocate for the value that Oxbotica is providing.
- Evangelise the customer voice and product priorities throughout the business.
- Produce product documentation in support of sales and marketing activities.
Requirements
What you need to succeed:
- Knowledge of modern machine learning techniques
- Knowledge and experience in building and launching cloud based software products.
- Knowledge and understanding of how customers can use synthetic data to accelerate verification and validation of complex systems
- Extensive product management experience in a software engineering domain
- The ability to build cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, marketing, sales and other departments
- An analytical mind that can work in a fast-paced complex matrix environment
Extra kudos if you have:
- A computer science background
- An MBA
- Experience with Google Cloud Computing
The Candidate Journey: Multi-Step and Two-Way
No-one wants to feel like a square peg in a round hole, so this process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. The various stages give you every opportunity to show your unique strengths and qualities, and enables each of us to establish if we’re a good fit for the other. If the fit is good and you’re selected, you’re then in a position to do great work and thrive, which is what everyone wants.
Benefits
Our Culture
We promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day. Ox