BusPatrol

Product Manager - Emergent Work

TX - Austin · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago

Machine LearningProduct ManagementFinancial ModelingResearchCommunication

About the role

If you're a product thinker who thrives on exploring new opportunities, scoping, analyzing, and characterizing new strategic partnerships, customers, and markets, next then this is your role.
BusPatrol is expanding our Emergent Work team to find, qualify, and incubate the bets that will define our company and industry over the next five years.
Reporting to the Vice President of Product and Strategy and dotted line to the Sr.

Be the front door for opportunities flowing in from key stakeholder groups, sales, GovOps, partners, and leadership.
Maintain an accurate, current view of every opportunity in flight and what it needs next.
Diligently follow up on opportunities to drive speed to decision while reducing the cognitive load on stakeholders.
Build Initial Business Cases
Commercial opportunity, technical analysis and issues, market sizing, competitive landscape, unit economics, build-vs-buy analysis, and a clear recommendation.
Lead Discovery Sprints
Independently or in tandem with Research and Design, conduct stakeholder interviews, customer conversations, and technical feasibility scoping with engineering and data.
Drive Rapid Decisions
Remember we don't want to spread attention across lots of good ideas; we want the critical few ideas that deliver the biggest impact.
Document opportunities we pass on: what we learned, what decision we made, why, and what would change the answer.

3-5 years in product management, strategy, consulting, corporate development, or a comparable discovery and analytical role.
Strong written communication: you can quickly turn a messy problem into a one-page memo an executive can act on.
You are a steward of company capacity and capital, not an advocate for every idea that crosses your inbox.
Strong ability to rapidly read, adjust, and effectively communicate with executive audiences
Early adopter with strong experience in AI tools (Glean, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in your daily work for activities like research, analysis, drafting, or prototyping-this team ships POCs and MVPs, not just decks.
Demonstrated ability to build a business case from scratch including market sizing, financial qualification, and a defensible recommendation and then present it to a senior audience.
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward structured and systems thinking. You create clarity from ambiguity.
Comfortable pushing through opinions to find and illuminate the data and the insights.
Strong data and analytical skills-impact sizing, Fermi-style estimation, proxy metrics, and measurement.
A bias for action, the experience to lead from the front, lead from the back, and the wisdom to know when to ask the tough question.
Preferred:

MBA or Master's degree in a closely related discipline (advanced analytics, strategy, finance, product, technology management, applied economics).
Experience in R&D, corporate development, venture, or new-product incubation environments.
Background in transportation technology, mobility, edge AI, or hardware + software platforms.
Experience with financial modeling and formal business case methodologies.
A genuine point of view on where AI changes the economics of a small R&D team.
If you are a builder of new teams, capability, and solutions-this is right up your alley!
Smaller company = more impact, faster.
Private equity backed.

A competitive salary and benefits package
Comprehensive personal time off, including volunteering and birthday days off
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, and/or commission (if applicable) or benefits.
Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Enjoy a competitive salary, incentives, and benefits in a rapid-growth company.
We measure success by fulfilling our mission and delivering results.
What We Offer
We are looking for a valued member of the BusPatrol team to assist us in our quest to improve children's safety.

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