Senior Product Manager – TorcDrive

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business. A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. As a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight. Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the Team

This team is looking for someone with combined technical and product management experience to define and drive the next generation of on-road autonomous driving technology, meeting customer needs as effectively and efficiently as possible. Works closely with cross-functional teams to define the capabilities and features that will unlock autonomous driving. In addition, they will deliver actionable product definitions and respective roadmaps to achieve product milestones, integrate plans with organizational leaders, obtain feedback from customers and stakeholders, and maintain a backlog of work that balances customer requirements with technological feasibility and company objectives. They will also own the product definition, scope, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration to enable the product development plan of their specific area as well as serve as a subject matter expert. Finally, this position will work closely with potential customers, engineering, technical partners, strategy, marketing, and sales to ensure that the product meets the needs of Torc and future customers.

What You’ll Do

• Drive the product vision internally by developing high-quality product definition, scoping, and prioritization.
• Drive the development of product features and functionality by liaising between the engineering team and relevant stakeholders. Gather user requirements, build product requirements, and communicate with engineering and other stakeholders at all levels of planning and execution.
• Define clear, testable, and concise high-quality product requirements, success metrics and prioritization based on customer feedback, market research, and business priorities, and effectively communicate them to the relevant TPM and engineering teams.
• Develop and propose process improvement initiatives to ensure cross-functional alignment between teams and projects. Support the process rollout and iterative cycle for continuous improvement.
• Actively participate in regular planning exercises to support product prioritization across the company.
• Analyze and understand customer, commercial, and technical constraints and tradeoffs by collaborating with engineering, commercial, legal, safety and regulatory to inform product roadmaps and backlogs. Recommend path forward with agreement from senior managers.
• Define, analyze, communicate, and continuously update key product plans and metrics to ensure priorities remain up to date.
• Develop and execute compelling customer demos and customer meeting outcomes.
• Collaborate, research, review competitor communications, and analyze and compare competing products to ensure Torc maintains the best products available.
• Help set, track, and achieve goals aligned with company-wide vision, goals, and initiatives.