Director of Product Management at Motional Pittsburgh, PA

About the Position

Director of Product Management Job at Motional, Pittsburgh, PA

Motional is seeking a visionary Director of Product Management to lead our product team in Pittsburgh, PA. Reporting to the VP, Commercialization, you will be the strategic leader responsible for designing and executing our product vision and ensuring the best rider experience possible. This role is pivotal as we transition from developing an autonomous vehicle to deploying and operating a commercial driverless service.

Responsibilities

• Build and Lead the Product Organization: Attract, hire, and inspire a world-class team of Product Managers. Establish a product culture focused on analytical rigor, cross-functional collaboration, and high-quality execution.
• Define the Motional Product POV: Lead the development of a unified product vision that spans the entire rider journey and technical stack. Consolidate disparate roadmaps into a single, unified strategy for Motional’s robotaxi service.
• Establish Prioritization Frameworks: Create and enforce data-driven frameworks to balance competing priorities across Engineering, Fleet Operations, and Commercial teams.
• Catalyze Autonomous Performance & Developer Velocity: Oversee the product strategy for our underlying autonomy tools and data pipelines. Partner deeply with leads to identify workflow bottlenecks, improve strategies, and ensure engineering teams can rapidly iterate on performance.
• Orchestrate Hardware & Software Synergy: Own the feedback loop between the in-vehicle experience, the physical fleet, and the backend software. Ensure the product roadmap maximizes the capabilities of our vehicle platform and scales effectively for daily operations.
• Lead Strategic Internal Collaborations: Establish the product organization's "rhythm of business," including roadmap reviews, resource allocation meetings, and executive briefings.
• Customer and Partner Obsession: Collaborate to define the integration scope and milestones with partners. Ensure a seamless and successful partnership with ride-hail partners and owners and operators.
• Define Success & Track KPIs: Define what "winning" looks like across Safety, Progress, and Comfort. Track and report on key performance indicators, ensuring our engineering velocity translates directly into measurable improvements in the Operational Design Domain (ODD) and rider experience.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent field, or commensurate professional experience.
• Experience: 10+ years relevant professional experience in Product Management, with a minimum of 5+ years leading product teams within Autonomous Vehicles, Ride-Hail, robotics, or complex AI/ML industries.
• Skills:
  • Systems-Level Thinking: Proven ability to unify fragmented workflows and consolidate disparate product strategies into a single cohesive vision.
  • Technical Authority: Deep foundational understanding of the ML development lifecycle, data curation, and autonomous systems.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven track record of orchestrating complex projects across highly technical and non-technical teams.
  • Executive Presence: Superb communication skills and experience in leading executive presentations, strategy discussions, and high-visibility roadmap reviews.
  • Strategic & Operational Balance: Ability to set the multi-year vision for the product while also managing short-term technical execution and developer efficiency.
  • Interpersonal Savvy: Soft skills that earn the confidence of leaders and peers, including empathy, organization, clear communication, influencing without authority, low ego, and the ability to build trust.

Nice to Have

• Ecosystem Experience: Direct experience building and scaling product organizations at a leading Level 4 autonomous vehicle or advanced robotics company.
• Commercial Launch and Scale Experience: Experience coordinating the commercial side of a complex, physical-world product launch in a new market and scale.

We Offer

• Competitive Salary: $212,000-$291,500 USD
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.
• Work Environment: Join a team of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

About the Company

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more. Our journey is always people first. We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers, and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact. We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.

Scale up, not starting up. Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.