Manager, AV Incident Management
About the role
Job Summary
The Manager, AV Incident Management is responsible for leading May Mobility's incident management function within the Systems Risk Management team. This role owns the end-to-end incident response process across our autonomous vehicle operations, ensuring every incident is identified, managed, and closed in a way that is accurate, timely, and defensible to regulators and partners.
As May Mobility scales its fleet and expands toward continuous autonomous operations, this role provides the senior leadership and operational expertise needed to mature our incident management capability in line with that growth. This individual will develop and maintain the processes, standards, and team structures that keep our operations safe and our safety case credible.
Essential Responsibilities
- Lead and continuously improve the incident management process across all AV operational sites, ensuring consistent, high-quality response to incidents of all severities
- Enable and support regulatory incident reporting, including NHTSA Standing General Order requirements and applicable state-level reporting, ensuring accurate and timely submissions
- Develop and maintain incident response standards, escalation frameworks, and operational protocols in alignment with May Mobility's safety case and risk management approach
- Design and lead a tiered incident response team structure that scales effectively with fleet growth, balancing full-time and contract resources to maintain coverage and quality
- Serve as the primary point of contact for regulators, first responders, and partners during significant incidents, coordinating response and communications in partnership with Legal and Safety leadership
- Work cross-functionally with Safety, Engineering, Legal, and Operations to ensure incidents drive systemic improvement, not just resolution
- Develop and lead the talent within the incident management team, building a clear career pathway and ensuring the team has the skills and capacity to meet operational demands
- Provide regular reporting to senior leadership on incident trends, team performance, and process maturity