Staff Product Operations Manager

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Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We’re looking for a Staff Product Operations Manager to be a force multiplier in realizing the full potential of Aurora’s Mapping operations and technology for self-driving. As a Staff Product Operations Manager, you’ll bring a blend of strategic, operational, and product experience to drive alignment across our organization, optimize operational processes, and accelerate product development velocity. You’ll partner with Engineering, Mapping Ops, Systems Safety, and Product Program Management to translate business objectives into concrete, tactical plans for the teams.

In this high-impact role, you’ll bring strong product management instinct and pair them with operational rigor to design systems that allow our Mapping organization to scale. You’ll help build and improve the operating system behind how our Mapping products and processes scale – from HD map expansion, updates, change detection, validation, and release readiness.

In this role, you will

• Drive operational alignment, product readiness, and continuous improvement across Mapping systems and tools

• Translate operational inefficiencies into product and tooling requirements, partner with engineering and analytics teams to drive automation and triage efficiency

• Lead and execute strategic initiatives to scale operations including KPI frameworks, process optimizations, and standardization

• Influence senior stakeholders by turning operational insights into clear, data-driven narratives that inform product and business decisions

• Partner with Engineering to develop product roadmaps and sprint-level objectives to ensure operational readiness to test and productionize new software developments

• Develop detailed projects plans and experiments with clear objective, structure, and analytical rigor

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills to share progress updates and business reports tailored for wide variety of audience

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of related work experience, particularly in Product Management, Product Operations, or Technical Program Management

• Strong product intuition, you understand roadmaps, tradeoffs, and technical constraints

• Familiarity with QA workflows, vendor management, and distributed operations

• Proven experience in creating and driving efficient process improvements that can scale

• Data fluency and experience with visualization tools using SQL and Python, turning data into actionable business insights

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, fluent in communicating nuanced, and often technical concepts across a variety of cross-functional stakeholders

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to influence without authority

• Embraces challenges and thrives in a fast-paced environment, ability to work through ambiguity

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience with HD maps, geospatial systems, robotics, autonomy, and simulation environments

• Experience supporting Machine Learning or data labeling pipelines

• Experience using jira to build structures and frameworks to manage deliverables

The base salary range for this position is $181-$262K 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. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

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