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# Director of Product Management at Motional

- **Company:** Motional
- **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA
- **Compensation:** $212k–$292k
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://motional.com/open-positions/?gh_jid=8010358003#/8010358003

## Job description

Mission Summary:

Reporting to the VP, Commercialization, the Director of Product Management will serve as the strategic leader for Motional’s product team and lead the design and execution of product vision and design to ensure every rider has the best rider experience possible. Working closely with executive and senior leaders and a team of product managers, you will build out our product vision and oversee the design of our entire AV system of systems.  You will incorporate feedback from riders, executives, shareholders and customers and leverage these insights to ensure we are providing the best possible experience with a sustainable business mindset. This includes aligning roadmaps and products across Autonomy, Engineering, Operations, Mission Support, and Commercial teams.

This is a pivotal time to join Motional because we are at a historic stage of transitioning from developing an autonomous vehicle to deploying and operating a commercial driverless service. As we transition from development to deployment in Las Vegas in 2026, we are setting the stage to scale our technology globally. This role requires a visionary product leader who can zoom out to build a cohesive Motional point of view on the product experience, while zooming in to untangle complex technical dependencies between hardware, AI, and operations. You will ultimately lead our product teams, establishing a high-velocity development loop that ensures every release is safer, more performant, and more commercially viable than the last and our tools develop and scale for growth.

This role will be expected to travel up to 50% of the time depending on the business purpose and product deliverables.

What you'll be doing:

- Build and Lead the Product Organization: Attract, hire, and inspire a small and mighty world-class team of Product Managers. You will establish a product culture focused on analytical rigor, cross-functional collaboration, and high-quality execution.
- Define the Motional Product POV: Lead the development of a unified product vision that spans the entire rider journey and technical stack on and off the AV. You will consolidate disparate roadmaps into a single, unified strategy for Motional’s robotaxi service. You have expertise at managing all aspects of the product life-cycle, from conceptualization to market introduction and production, and product dimensions including technical, commercial/business, financial, legal and legislative.
- Establish Prioritization Frameworks: Create and enforce rigorous, data-driven frameworks to balance competing priorities across Engineering, Fleet Operations, and Commercial teams. You will make the hard trade-offs between technical capability, system complexity, and time-to-market.
- Catalyze Autonomous Performance & Developer Velocity: Oversee the product strategy for our underlying autonomy tools and data pipelines. Partner deeply with leads to identify workflow bottlenecks, improve strategies, and ensure engineering teams can rapidly iterate on performance.
- Orchestrate Hardware & Software Synergy: Own the feedback loop between the in-vehicle experience, the physical fleet, and the backend software. Ensure the product roadmap maximizes the capabilities of our vehicle platform and scales effectively for daily operations. Influence and support the current and future generation platforms with OEMs, help execute commercial and go-to-market strategies for expansion and prepare for growth.
- Lead Strategic Internal Collaborations: Establish the product organization's "rhythm of business," including roadmap reviews, resource allocation meetings, and executive briefings. You will act as the primary operational bridge aligning internal technical execution with external commercial obligations.
- Customer and Partner Obsession: You will collaborate to define the integration scope and milestones with partners. Your team will own the technical customer-facing aspects of our integrations with ride-hail partners and owners and operators, ensuring a seamless and successful partnership.
- Define Success & Track KPIs: Define what "winning" looks like across Safety, Progress, and Comfort. Track and report on key performance indicators, ensuring our engineering velocity translates directly into measurable improvements in the Operational Design Domain (ODD) and rider experience.

What we're looking for:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent field, or commensurate professional experience.
- 10+ years relevant professional experience in Product Management, with a minimum of 5+ years leading product teams within Autonomous Vehicles, Ride-Hail, robotics, or complex AI/ML industries.
- Systems-Level Thinking: You have a proven ability to unify fragmented workflows and consolidate disparate product strategies into a single cohesive vision.
- Technical Authority: Deep foundational understanding of the ML development lifecycle, data curation, and autonomous systems. You can hold your own in architecture reviews and engage with engineers on data pipelines and algorithmic requirements.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: You possess a proven track record of orchestrating complex projects across highly technical and non-technical teams, translating commercial needs into clear directives for Autonomy and Operations.
- Executive Presence: You possess superb communication skills and can command a room. You are experienced in leading executive presentations, strategy discussions, and high-visibility roadmap reviews with polish and professionalism.
- Strategic & Operational Balance: You can set the multi-year vision for the product while also sweating the details of short-term technical execution and developer efficiency.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Soft skills that earn the confidence of leaders and peers, including empathy, organization, clear communication, influencing without authority, low ego, and the ability to build trust.

Bonus points (preferred, not required):

- Ecosystem Experience: Direct experience building and scaling product organizations at a leading Level 4 autonomous vehicle or advanced robotics company.
- Commercial Launch and Scale Experience: Experience coordinating the commercial side of a complex, physical-world product launch in a new market and scale.

This role is based in our Pittsburgh office and requires in-office days each week.

## #LI-AM1

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.

Salary Range $212,000—$291,500 USD

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit  [www.Motional.com](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3300142-1&h=1642745316&u=https%3A%2F%2Fc212.net%2Fc%2Flink%2F%3Ft%3D0%26l%3Den%26o%3D3253528-1%26h%3D3781125006%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fc212.net%252Fc%252Flink%252F%253Ft%253D0%2526l%253Den%2526o%253D3089636-1%2526h%253D3468778127%2526u%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fc212.net%25252Fc%25252Flink%25252F%25253Ft%25253D0%252526l%25253Den%252526o%25253D2881693-1%252526h%25253D646020682%252526u%25253Dhttps%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Furldefense.com%2525252Fv3%2525252F__http%2525253A%2525252Fwww.motional.com%2525252F__%2525253B!!KT8c38mO!j78LjnhAm2VK7Fu23VO6KlwqDXvVTQFMzmyzieKQqZDQksh2tpWEseK4to8eKzwsEwI%25252524%252526a%25253Dwww.Motional.com%2526a%253Dwww.Motional.com%26a%3Dwww.Motional.com&a=www.Motional.com) and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/motionaldrive), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/67123512/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/motionaldrive/) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr__mGPkBb-KMoYWbSGuA9w).

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.

## About Motional

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Motional is an autonomous vehicle technology company developing Level 4 driverless systems for robotaxi and delivery services.
- **Entity Type**: Private (joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with offices in Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Santa Monica, and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2020 (formed as a joint venture; predecessor companies nuTonomy and Ottomatika founded in 2013)
- **Founders**: Motional was created as a joint venture; predecessor companies nuTonomy was co-founded by Karl Iagnemma and Emilio Frazzoli, and Ottomatika was founded by Raj Rajkumar

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Autonomous Vehicle Technology / Self-Driving Systems
- **Target Customers**: B2B partnerships with mobility networks (ride-hail and delivery platforms like Uber), enterprise fleet operators, and mobility service providers
- **Mission**: To make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality, fundamentally changing how the world moves.

## Products & Services
- **Robotaxi Service (Motional Driverless)**: A fully driverless, Level 4 autonomous vehicle platform designed for ride-hail services. Currently operating commercial robotaxi services on Uber in Las Vegas as of March 2026.
- **Autonomous Delivery**: The same robotaxi platform is designed to support autonomous delivery services, complementing the ride-hail offering.
- **nuScenes Open Source Dataset**: An industry-leading open-source dataset for autonomous vehicle research, demonstrating Motional's commitment to safety-focused data sharing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private joint venture)
- **Key Metric**: Over 130,000 autonomous rides provided with zero at-fault incidents since predecessor companies began in 2013.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Hyundai Motor Group (joint venture partner), Aptiv (joint venture partner), Uber (commercial robotaxi partnership launched in Las Vegas, March 2026).
- **Growth Signals**: Commercial launch of robotaxi service on Uber in Las Vegas (March 2026), over a decade of autonomous driving development, significant scaling of driverless testing operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industry-Leading Safety Record**: Zero at-fault incidents across 130,000+ autonomous rides, with safety as the company's bedrock principle.
- **Unique Joint Venture Structure**: Combines Hyundai's manufacturing expertise (vehicle production, global scale) with Aptiv's automotive technology leadership (sensors, software, integration).
- **Proven Commercial Deployment**: First-mover advantage with a live, paying robotaxi service integrated into Uber's platform in a major US city.
- **Open Source Leadership**: The nuScenes dataset is a widely used industry benchmark, establishing Motional as a thought leader and attracting top talent.

## Strategic Focus
- **Commercialization at Scale**: Expanding the Las Vegas robotaxi service and replicating the model in new markets.
- **Platform Versatility**: Developing the same core technology for both ride-hail and delivery to maximize revenue per vehicle and market opportunity.
- **Safety-First Approach**: Continuing to lead the industry in transparency and safety data sharing to build public trust and regulatory confidence.
- **Partnership Ecosystem**: Deepening integration with Uber and pursuing additional mobility network partnerships globally.

## Why Work Here
- **Purpose-Driven Mission**: Employees are motivated by a clear social purpose: creating safer roads, more equitable transportation, and reducing emissions — not just building technology for profit.
- **Cutting-Edge Engineering Challenges**: Work on the hardest problems in robotics, machine learning, AI, software, and sensor fusion, with direct impact on a product already on the streets.
- **Culture & Values**: Described as "more human than big tech and more structured than start-ups." Core values include Safety as Bedrock, Build for Everyone (diversity & inclusion), Take Ownership, and Deliver the Future.
- **Global, Collaborative Team**: Offices across the US (Boston, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Santa Monica) and Asia (Singapore), with a culture that emphasizes collaboration across teams and disciplines.
- **Career Growth & Benefits**: Competitive benefits package, investment in employee development, and a "people first" approach that values career growth and well-being. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but global office presence suggests flexibility.

## Sources
1. [Motional Website](https://motional.com/)
2. [Motional Careers Page](https://motional.com/careers)
3. [Motional - What We Do](https://motional.com/what-we-do)
4. [Motional - Life at Motional](https://motional.com/life-motional)
5. [Motional - Open Positions](https://motional.com/open-positions)

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