Staff Product Manager
Kodiak AI is an active public company providing AI-powered autonomous ground-vehicle technology, principally through the Kodiak Driver for commercial trucking, industrial trucking, and defense applications.
Funding history
About Kodiak AI, Inc.
Kodiak Driver combines AI-powered software and modular, vehicle-agnostic hardware to enable driverless vehicle operations. Kodiak commercializes the technology through a Driver-as-a-Service model and serves trucking, industrial, and defense customers.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define a multi-year product roadmap, own products from opportunity through deployment and iteration, and set prioritization and readiness criteria. You will align cross-functional stakeholders, write rigorous product requirements, manage key customer relationships, communicate product health, mentor product managers, and travel to customer deployments.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience
- Technical product strategy experience in complex domains
- Engineering, computer science, or related technical background
- Product strategy and roadmap influence at VP level or above
- Architecture, system design, and feasibility-tradeoff fluency
- Customer relationship and commercial experience
- Cross-functional leadership experience
- Executive-level communication skills
Responsibilities
- Define multi-year product strategy and roadmap
- Align Engineering, Program Management, Operations, and Commercial stakeholders
- Own the product lifecycle from opportunity identification through deployment and iteration
- Set prioritization frameworks and influence roadmap and resourcing decisions
- Author product requirements and guide architectural decisions
- Define deployment-readiness criteria and product-health metrics
- Manage strategic customer relationships and translate feedback into product direction
- Mentor senior product managers
- Travel to commercial deployments and customer sites
Benefits
- Equity and annual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Infertility benefits
- Legal services
- Identity and fraud protection
- Hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Free catered lunch
- Free EV charging
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Wellbeing programs
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and HSA
- Referral and patent bonuses