Product Integration Lead

The Product Integration Lead is an influential leadership position within the Product & Program Management team at Aurora. This person is responsible for coordinating and delivering new Aurora Driver features and performance improvements across software releases.

About the Role

• Partner closely with Business Development, Product Strategy, Engineering, and Operations to prioritize quarterly business outcomes based on customer needs.
• Translate business outcomes into software-wide objectives.
• Initiate and execute planning (in collaboration with team of Product/Program Managers) to conclude which quarterly business outcomes can be achieved based on bottoms-up engineering plans.
• Define the scope of quarterly software releases in terms of new features and performance improvements.
• Agregate status and risks across all cross-functional programs to project what can be achieved in the upcoming release.
• Partner closely with Data Science, Business Development, Product Strategy, and Engineering to establish and track progress against key metrics.
• Ensure the organization has a clear understanding of how these metrics translate to customer success, profitability, and operational efficiency.
• Produce artifacts that communicate the state of software execution work for consumption by the broad software organization as well as partner teams like MarComm, Safety, Operations, Business Development, Investor Relations, and more.
• Synthesize and communicate status and risks to senior leadership.
• Present key tradeoffs and drive decisions.
• Identify and manage key dependencies in delivering customer outcomes.
• This includes work needed to deliver onboard software, offboard tools, customer experience targets, safety targets, and operational SOPs.
• Partner closely with Product Operations to forecast development fleet demand and serve as the arbiter for tradeoffs.
• Have a strong handle on key risks in delivering business outcomes, and decide which risks are appropriate to escalate to senior leadership.
• Provide mitigation strategies and specific areas where help is needed.
• Frame tradeoffs associated with the risk.
• Serve as a key thought leader within the Product & Program Management team and across partner teams like Design and Product Strategy.
• Develop best-in-class artifacts for product requirements definition, program reporting, decision making, etc.
• Serve as a mentor for more junior product & program managers.

  Responsibilities

  • Quarterly Release Planning
  • Feature Release Execution
  • Performance Metrics
  • Stakeholder Coordination & Communications
  • Dependency Management
  • Software / Product Ops Liaison
  • Risk Escalation & Mitigation
  • Product & Program Best-Practice Champion

    Qualifications

    • Strong technical background
    • Deep understanding of customer needs
    • Superior communication skills
    • Ability to manage complex dependencies across programs and workstreams

    Benefits

    • Base salary wage range: $197K-$316K per year
    • Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions.
    • Annual bonus
    • Equity compensation
    • Benefits

    Pay

    • The base salary wage range for this position is $197K-$316K per year.
    • Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions.
    • These ranges may be modified in the future.

    Schedule

    • Working at Aurora involves being in the office at least 3 days per week.

    Benefits

    • Committed to safety
    • Commitment to inclusion
    • Equal opportunity employer
    • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
    • California employment privacy policy