Kodiak Robotics

Kodiak Robotics

Staff Product Manager

Mountain View, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$10k-$20kDetected 14 days ago
SpringProduct ManagementProduct StrategyLogisticsIntellectual PropertyRoboticsLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector.
  • In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer.
  • Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors including: work location, experience, relevant training, education, skill level and performance during interview.

Responsibilities

  • Execution at scale: Own the product lifecycle from opportunity identification through deployment and iteration - holding the bar on quality and metrics across multiple workstreams simultaneously.
  • Product definition: Author product requirements that set a high standard for rigor and customer fidelity. Partner deeply with Design and Engineering leadership to ensure architectural decisions reflect long-term product needs, not just near-term scope.
  • Travel: 10-20% travel to Kodiak commercial deployments and customer sites to maintain operational intuition and customer proximity.
  • Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.
  • This is a senior individual contributor role with organization-wide influence - you will not only own a critical product area end-to-end, but shape how Kodiak thinks about product strategy, customer deployment, and the path to scaled commercialization.
  • You will be the most senior product voice in the room for your domain, setting direction that other PMs and cross-functional leaders align to, and operating as a trusted thought partner to the VP level and above.
  • Own the product lifecycle from opportunity identification through deployment and iteration - holding the bar on quality and metrics across multiple workstreams simultaneously.
  • Partner deeply with Design and Engineering leadership to ensure architectural decisions reflect long-term product needs, not just near-term scope.
  • At Kodiak, we strive to build a diverse community working towards our common company goals in a safe and collaborative environment where harassment of any kind is strictly prohibited.

Requirements

  • Track record of shaping product strategy and roadmap decisions at the VP level and above
  • you have changed the direction of a program or product area through the strength of your judgment and communication, not just your title.
  • Background in engineering, computer science, or a related field required.
  • Proven ability to set structure and direction in genuinely novel problem spaces - where there is no playbook, the market is evolving, and the cost of getting it wrong is high.
  • Demonstrated organizational influence: Track record of shaping product strategy and roadmap decisions at the VP level and above

Skills

  • Set prioritization frameworks that others adopt.

Compensation

  • California Pay Range
  • $180,000 - $240,000 USD

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits)
  • Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies
  • Office perks: dog-friendly, free catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and free EV charging
  • Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
  • Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna, Calm through Kaiser, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health through Cigna, Rula (mental health navigation)
  • Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
  • Total compensation at Kodiak includes base pay, equity, bonus and a competitive benefits package

Company info

  • Serve as Kodiak's most senior product relationship owner with key customers - building deep trust, surfacing strategic feedback, and translating real-world operational complexity into product direction that engineering can act on.
  • Customer partnership: Serve as Kodiak's most senior product relationship owner with key customers - building deep trust, surfacing strategic feedback, and translating real-world operational complexity into product direction that engineering can act on.
  • Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all.
  • The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology.
  • Kodiak is seeking a Staff Product Manager to serve as a strategic product leader for our Level 4 autonomous trucking platform across customer applications.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employment regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation,
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