Job Description
The Staff Technical Product Operations Manager at Aurora is responsible for optimizing and scaling the company's mapping operations and technology for self-driving vehicles, by driving operational alignment, process improvements, and collaboration across engineering, safety, and product teams to enhance the development and deployment of HD maps and related systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive operational alignment, product readiness, and continuous improvement across Mapping systems and tools
- Translate operational inefficiencies into product and tooling requirements, partnering with engineering and analytics teams to automate processes
- Lead and execute strategic initiatives to scale operations, including KPI frameworks, process optimizations, and standardization
- Influence senior stakeholders by translating operational insights into data-driven narratives for decision-making
- Collaborate with Engineering to develop product roadmaps and sprint objectives ensuring operational readiness for testing and deployment
- Develop detailed project plans and experiments with clear objectives, structure, and analytical rigor
Requirements
- 8 years of related work experience, particularly in Product Management, Product Operations, or Technical Program Management
- Strong product intuition, understanding of roadmaps, tradeoffs, and technical constraints
- Familiarity with QA workflows, vendor management, and distributed operations
- Proven experience in creating and driving efficient process improvements that can scale
- Data fluency and experience with visualization tools using SQL and Python, turning data into actionable business insights
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, fluent in communicating nuanced, and often technical concepts across a variety of cross-functional stakeholders
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to influence without authority
- Ability to embrace challenges and thrive in a fast-paced environment, working through ambiguity
Benefits & Perks
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits
Hybrid work environment with at least 3 days in office per week
Commitment to safety policies
Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
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