Doordashusa
Product Manager Airspace & Autonomy - DoorDash Air
San Francisco, CA. Posted 29 days ago
The role
You will own the end-to-end product strategy for software, services, and autonomy required to deploy autonomous drone delivery at scale. You will connect the DoorDash logistics platform with aircraft, autonomy stacks, and mission-planning services.
What you will do
- Own end-to-end product strategy for safety critical software, services and platform infrastructure
- Integrate drone delivery into the DoorDash marketplace
- Lead the autonomy product roadmap
- Create the roadmap to progress from 1:1 to m:N operations
- Define the data strategy for autonomous aviation
- Build UTM and airspace-management capabilities
- Lead standards compliance and engagement
- Productize regulatory compliance
- Make build, buy, and partner decisions
- Define system-level success metrics
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of product management, technical product leadership, systems leadership, or related experience
- 5+ years of experience in autonomous systems, robotics, UAS, aviation technology, safety-critical systems, or another highly regulated real-world operating environment
- Track record of taking technically complex products from early concept or prototype through validation, deployment, and operational scale
- Experience owning products that span multiple layers of a technology stack
- Strong technical fluency across autonomous-system concepts
- Experience defining product strategy and architecture for distributed, real-time, or mission-critical systems
- Working knowledge of UTM, airspace-management systems, geospatial data, flight-planning services, operational volumes, conformance monitoring, and airspace interoperability
- Experience operating within or building technology for FAA-regulated environments
Nice to have
- Experience designing or scaling human-supervised autonomy, remote operations, multi-vehicle systems, fleet orchestration, or m:N operating models
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
About the company
DoorDash Labs serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics.