Product Manager, Fleet Readiness
Oxa, Canada
Job Description
Based in Oxford and with offices in Canada and the US, Oxa is an international startup founded in 2014 and scaling up rapidly (300+ Oxbots and growing).
As the global leader in our industry, we’re fuelled by a bold purpose: to make the Earth move better. From passenger shuttles to industrial vehicles, our operating system for Universal Autonomy is transforming the way people and goods are transported by enabling any vehicle, in any environment, to operate autonomously safely, securely and efficiently.
Our technology is capturing investors’ imagination. To date we’ve raised $140 million in our Series C investment round. Accommodating growing demand from new and current shareholders, this funding is driving our expansion in North America and EMEA , and accelerating the deployment of our technology in domains where there is both urgent need and potential to scale.
Your Team
Oxa Driver is a full stack of high performance software components that can be integrated into any vehicle to enable safe and efficient self-driving in any environment. You will be the lead product manager for a group of cross-functional product engineering teams that make Oxa Driver accessible and self-manageable by our customers. Join us to unlock the value of self-driving technology to every person and organisation on the planet.
Your Role
Oxa has a matrix team structure. As a product manager, you will be a member of the Product Manager family and work also in a Customer Autonomy Stream that focuses on a market segment or product domain.
- Working with customers, stakeholders and leaders to set the vision for your area of product responsibility, including both a long range 3-5 year vision as well as a detailed vision for the next release.
- Working closely with the engineering lead of your team in creating a product roadmap and maintaining a backlog of features and ideas
- Determining explicit and implicit customer needs, and translating them into product requirements
- Driving iterative exploration of value propositions and product ideas, and rapidly testing assumptions using data and customer feedback
- Participate in customer calls and visits to understand customer needs
- Supporting the Product Manager of Oxa Driver to build a high level product roadmap and maintain alignment to product and business objectives
- Working closely with engineers and designers to ensure successful delivery of product features
- Implementing relevant analytics to track feature performance and quantify problems
- Tracking and reporting team activity to Product-Engineering management.
- Gathering and addressing feedback and feature requests from customer and Solutions teams.
- Monitoring compliance to applicable standards and practices, raise risks and issues
- Supporting the Commercial team and Solutions team in their discovery, evaluation and delivery of new business opportunities.
- Producing product documentation in support of sales and marketing activities.
Requirements
What you need to succeed:
- Substantial product management experience in a software engineering or robotics domain
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
- Track record of fostering cross-functional collaboration between engineering, design, marketing, sales and other departments
- An analytical mind that can work in a fast-paced complex matrix environment
Extra kudos if you have:
- Experience taking a product to market and managing a product with paying customers.
- Experience in software engineering or robotics, in a related field
- An MBA
- PMP Certification
The Candidate Journey: Multi-Step and Two-Way
No-one wants to feel like a square peg in a round hole, so this process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. The various stages give you every opportunity to show your unique strengths and qualities, and enables each of us to establish if we’re a good fit for the other. If the fit is good and you’re selected, you’re then in a position to do great work and thrive, which is what everyone wants.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Life Insurance
- ADamp;D Insurance
- Long Term Disability Insurance
- Critical Illness Cover
- Extended Health Care
- Dental Cover
- Health Spending Account
- Personal Spending Account
- Employee Assistance Program
Our Culture
We promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves