Head of Product
Lead Nuro's product strategy and roadmap for the Nuro Driver autonomy platform. Translate customer, partner, and technical needs into requirements while shaping commercialization across vehicles, use cases, and geographies. Requires 15+ years tech/product leadership and deep experience with complex AI/robotics systems.
About the job
Own Nuro’s product strategy and roadmap
- Define and drive the company-level product roadmap for the Nuro Driver and related commercialization products.
- Identify the highest-value product bets, clarify tradeoffs, and ensure the roadmap is grounded in customer needs, technical feasibility, operational readiness, and business impact.
Translate customer needs into technical requirements
- Work closely with customers and partners to understand their technical, operational, and commercial requirements.
- Translate those needs into clear product requirements and technical priorities.
- Ensure teams have the context, clarity, and specifications needed to build the right product for commercialization.
Partner deeply across technical and operational teams
- Act as a trusted partner to teams across Autonomy, Systems, Infrastructure, Data, Operations, Program Management, Business Development, and Legal.
- Understand what can be built, where constraints exist, what tradeoffs matter, and how product decisions affect autonomy performance, scalability, safety, and deployment readiness.
Shape the commercialization roadmap
- Define how Nuro scales autonomy across customers, markets, geographies, operating domains, and vehicle platforms.
- Connect the long-term autonomy roadmap with near-term commercial milestones.
- Ensure Nuro is building toward scalable deployment and customer success.
Serve as an executive product voice
- Represent the product roadmap across the executive team and with key external partners.
- Bring structure to complex decisions, communicate technical and commercial tradeoffs clearly.
- Ensure product strategy is connected to company strategy.
Build product discipline
- Establish the right product operating model for Nuro’s next stage.
- Improve how product requirements are defined, how roadmap decisions are made, how tradeoffs are surfaced, and how Product, Engineering, Program Management, Operations, and technical teams work together.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15+ years of experience in technology, product management, engineering, or related technical product leadership roles.
- 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex technical products.
- 5+ years of experience leading product teams or product organizations.
- Experience working closely with technical teams on complex products, platforms, infrastructure, AI/ML systems, robotics, autonomy, enterprise platforms, or similarly complex technical domains.
- Demonstrated experience translating customer, partner, or market requirements into product strategy, technical requirements, and product roadmaps.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI/ML, mapping, simulation, fleet operations, logistics, mobility, or other complex physical-world systems where safety is paramount.
- Experience commercializing technical platforms through external partnerships, enterprise customers, or large-scale ecosystem partners.
- Strong understanding of how technical product decisions affect scalability, deployment readiness, customer adoption, and business outcomes.
- Experience operating in high-growth, fast-changing, or ambiguous environments.
- Track record of building strong product teams and raising the quality of product strategy, roadmap planning, and execution.
Compensation
Base pay range is $235,000 - $352,000. Total compensation package includes additional components beyond base pay.
Skills
Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Roadmap, Technical Requirements, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, AI/ML, Fleet Operations, Commercialization, Stakeholder Management
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