Senior/Staff Technical Product Manager, Operational Design Domain (ODD) Tools

The role

You will own the product vision and roadmap for Zoox's ODD planning platform, the system that defines where the vehicles are cleared to drive. Your main customers are the Driving Behavior Technical Product Managers, and you will also serve the Mapping, Safety, Data Science, and Program Management teams.

What you will do

• Own the long-term vision and roadmap for the ODD planning platform, aligned with release milestones and city expansion plans
• Move ODD control from manual, annotation-heavy workflows to scalable, policy-driven configuration
• Define validation gates, guardrails, and traceability so every Plan of Record stays consistent with its map and prior milestones
• Set precision and recall bars with Safety and Data Science for road attributes that control driving areas
• Partner with Driving Behavior, Mapping, Safety, and Data Science teams to understand their workflows and fix operational pain points
• Drive the full product lifecycle: write PRDs, manage prioritization and the backlog, and run alpha validation before release
• Work with engineering leadership to staff the roadmap, set release quality gates, and reduce production regressions
• Serve as the central point of contact for ODD planning and communicate roadmap, trade-offs, and status to stakeholders and leadership
• Define, track, and report KPIs such as adoption, Plan of Record accuracy, time saved, and platform performance

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of Technical Product Management experience
• Experience on complex, data-heavy internal tools or enterprise-scale platforms
• Able to discuss system architecture and data models with senior engineers
• Proven track record defining validation, metrics, and quality bars for data that drives high-stakes decisions
• Proven ability to ship incremental value against clear priorities
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizations, and secure engineering investment

Nice to have

• Deep technical fluency with geospatial data, road networks or map data models, APIs, and data pipelines
• Experience developing AI/ML, robotics, or autonomous vehicle products, especially ODD definition, geofencing, or service area planning
• Hands-on experience with GIS tooling and spatial data (e.g., PostGIS, GeoJSON) and SQL-based analytics (e.g., Databricks)
• Experience with automated data mining or ML-based attribute extraction at scale (e.g., vision-language models)
• Experience leading delivery with distributed engineering teams across time zones

About the company

Zoox is developing a fully autonomous, zero-emissions vehicle, purpose-built for AI and its customers. Its mission is to make mobility-as-a-service safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone.