Kodiak Staff Product Manager leads product strategy and execution for Kodiak's Level 4 autonomous trucking platform. Owns product lifecycle, sets prioritization frameworks, and serves as senior product relationship owner with key customers.
Responsibilities
Product strategy and vision: Define the multi-year product roadmap for your area, grounded in customer needs, competitive dynamics, and Kodiak's commercialization trajectory. Make the case for what to build — and what not to — at the leadership level.
Cross-functional leadership: Unify Engineering, Program Management, Operations, and Commercial around a shared product vision. You are the person who resolves ambiguity and ensures the right tradeoffs are made with clarity and speed.
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.
Prioritization and resource influence: Set prioritization frameworks that others adopt. Actively shape engineering roadmap and resourcing conversations, advocating effectively for customer-critical investments at the VP and executive level.
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.
Performance and readiness: Define the metrics and readiness criteria that determine when a product is ready to deploy. Own the system of record for product health and communicate it credibly to customers, leadership, and the board.
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.
Organizational impact: Mentor senior PMs, contribute to the product management craft at Kodiak, and help define how the PM function operates — from how requirements are written to how tradeoffs are communicated.
Travel: 10-20% travel to Kodiak commercial deployments and customer sites to maintain operational intuition and customer proximity.
What you’ll bring:
10+ years of Product Management experience, with at least several years operating as a senior IC driving strategy independently across complex, technical product domains — ideally in autonomous vehicles, robotics, logistics, or safety-critical systems.
Demonstrated organizational influence: 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.
