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# Director of Product at Volley Automation

- **Company:** Volley Automation
- **Location:** Denver, CO
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/volley-automation/2e448cdf-644e-4e5b-ad76-493d4cb1ddbe

## Job description

## About Volley

Volley Automation is building the future of parking through fully automated robotic parking systems. Our mission is to create sustainable parking solutions that are compact, efficient, and adaptable throughout a building’s lifecycle, while making EV charging easier and more accessible. Are you intrigued by the idea of putting cars away with robots? Do you hate parking? Do you love parking? If so, we’d love to talk. Volley Automation builds fully automated parking. Drivers hand off their car at the entry bay and walk away. From there the building takes over: AGVs move vehicles on trays, vertical conveyors move them between floors, and a controls and software stack orchestrates everything. The result is a garage that fits more cars into less concrete, in exactly the urban cores where parking is most expensive to build. Our systems go into real buildings, on real construction schedules, with real occupancy dates. That constraint shapes everything about how we build, develop, and engineer our product.

## The Role

- Turn customer and market evidence into product decisions: segment definition, configuration and pricing structure, feature go/no-go. Evidence means site visits, operator and owner interviews, and win/loss definitions and not a survey deck someone else built
- Articulate a product vision and get a company that does not yet agree to align behind it, in front of the executive team, the board, customers, and all the way through the entire org - especially the engineering team. You have held the line against per-project one-offs quietly becoming the product
- Experience with a product where the buyer and the user are different people with different definitions of value (developer and owner on one side, driver or parking spot owner/user on the other)
- Has owned a product's direction as well as its delivery. Can point to a roadmap you authored rather than inherited, and explain what you cut and why as well as what was executed on and why
- Owns a cross-functional development roadmap and plan spanning engineering, operations, commercial, and finance with time estimates that are aggressive and still real. Experience delivering this roadmap against an externally fixed date (construction schedule, customer opening, capital project milestone), where the date does not move because a certain department needs or wants it to
- Runs dependency mapping, critical path, and a risk register as habits, with suppliers, contract manufacturers, integrators, and long-lead components tracked as schedule dependencies
- Can close the loop from our Denver HQ and field deployments by turning commissioning, operational friction, and customer feedback into requirements and backlog items

Required qualifications

- 8+ years combined, with real depth on both sides of the product owner and program execution fronts. At least 3 years owning a product and at least 3 years owning a program outcome, which may overlap
- Experience with product definition and/or technical program execution with AGVs, AMRs, robotics, material handling, warehouse automation, or vertical transportation
- BS in engineering (ME, EE, or CS) or equivalent hands-on background. Must be able to read an architecture, interrogate a design decision, and push back credibly on a technical effort estimate
- Commercially literate enough to be believed by the CEO and the board: argues a feature in dollars, payback, and segment access
- Startup mode: ambiguity, thin process, influence over authority
- Travel roughly 25-35% for customers, suppliers, and installations

Desired qualifications

- Capital equipment product management: long sales cycles, six and seven figure deals, pricing and configuration structure, service and warranty definitions
- Ran a design partner program, customer advisory board, or equivalent structured voice-of-customer mechanism
- Safety-critical or code-regulated products (UL, ASME, NFPA, functional safety, AHJ approvals)
- Productization track record: have been part of taking a system from a working first installation to a repeatable, documented, installable product
- Real estate developers, general contractors, or building systems trades
- Fleet software: telemetry, remote diagnostics, OTA, uptime commitments
- EV charging infrastructure familiarity
- Stood up product process where none existed, without importing bureaucracy
- Supported fundraising or board reporting with roadmap and technical-risk material
- Advanced degree, masters, MBA, PhD, or PMP/CSPO.

Applicant must provide proof of his or her eligibility to work in the United States if selected for hire.

Volley Automation is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, association with a member of a protected class, bereavement leave, color, disability (physical, intellectual/developmental, or mental health/psychiatric), exercising the right to family care and medical leave related to serious health condition of employee or family member, child bonding, or military exigencies, engaging in protected activity, gender identity or expression, genetic information or characteristic, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristic), military and veteran status, national origin (includes language restrictions), pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL), race (includes hairstyle and hair texture), religious creed (includes dress and grooming practices), reproductive health decision making, sex/gender, and sexual orientation. We are not accepting resumes from third-party vendors or agency recruiters representing candidates. Direct Applicants Only.

## About Volley Automation

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Robotics Engineering, Automated Parking Systems, Urban Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Developers, architects, property owners, and construction firms building in space-constrained urban locations (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To build the best parking systems for new buildings in space-constrained locations.” Focused on making parking easier, safer, and more sustainable while maximizing economic value for development projects.

## Products & Services
- **Volley Automated Parking System**: A robotic, software-driven parking garage that uses autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) to move cars. It densifies parking by up to 2x, reduces construction complexity, and can eliminate entire below-grade levels. Includes integrated autonomous EV charging that moves cars to charging stations as needed, maximizing charger utilization without traditional infrastructure costs.
- **Retrofit Solutions (future roadmap)**: Planned solutions for existing garages and infrastructure to support autonomous vehicle fleets and EV charging at scale.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $15.2M (over 3 rounds: Seed in 2018, Seed in 2020, Seed in June 2021 led by Thursday Ventures, and Series A in August 2021)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thursday Ventures (lead seed investor), Hito Robotic System (AGV supplier), Skanska (National Strategic Supply Chain Program), Otis (VRC service & maintenance), AIA member
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 50% YoY to 22 employees; moved headquarters from San Francisco to Denver in 2025 to access engineering talent and reduce overhead; active installations in New York, Nashville, and pipeline across Florida, California, and Massachusetts; hiring for engineering, operations, and project delivery roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched expertise**: Team exclusively focused on automated parking systems with deep experience in robotic hardware, software, and AI (multi-agent AI lead on staff).
- **Densification capability**: Up to 2x densification improves project economics, making previously unbuildable sites viable.
- **Futureproofed EV charging**: Every parked car gets EV charging capability without traditional infrastructure costs, a key differentiator for new developments.
- **Reduced embodied carbon**: Less concrete and steel required; zero-emission AGV operation eliminates engine emissions inside the garage.
- **USA-based support**: Continuous system improvement and exceptional domestic support.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling deployments in dense urban markets (NYC, Nashville, Florida, California, Massachusetts); developing retrofit solutions for existing garages; building infrastructure for autonomous vehicle fleets and large-scale EV charging; expanding the Denver engineering hub and building a world-class team.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the standard for parking in modern smart cities; deepening partnerships across the technology stack; increasing R&D investment in software and AI.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Collaborative and inclusive work environment where every idea is valued. Dogs allowed in the office. Daily free lunches from local independent restaurants. 13 paid holidays including a full week+ winter shutdown, plus unlimited PTO.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Hybrid presence – Denver HQ with on-site roles (engineering, operations, project delivery) and a network of remote roles in engineering and sales.
- **Notable perks**: Competitive pay packages with equity compensation, 401(k) with matching, generous health & wellness insurance. Emphasis on investing in R&D rather than Bay Area real estate overhead.
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on robotics, software, automation, and AI; team members have backgrounds from Tesla, Waymo, Nuro, iRobot, Kitty Hawk, and other top robotics companies.

## Sources
1. [Volley Automation About Page](https://volleyautomation.com/about/)
2. [Volley Automation Homepage](https://volleyautomation.com/)
3. [Careers Page](https://volleyautomation.com/careers/)
4. [Blog: HQ Move to Denver](https://volleyautomation.com/blog/volley-automation-moves-headquarters-to-denver/)
5. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/volley-automation)

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