--- title: 'Staff Product Manager, AGSE Service at AeroVect' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-product-manager-agse-service-aerovect-atlanta-2sh7rx2rq5wg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Staff Product Manager, AGSE Service at AeroVect - **Company:** AeroVect - **Location:** Atlanta, GA - **Compensation:** $162k–$202k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aerovect/988f22e9-4762-4312-8495-6df660f1c656 ## Job description ## Who We Are AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit [www.aerovect.com](http://www.aerovect.com). The Staff PMT is responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap, and product requirements for AeroVect’s Autonomous Ground Support Equipment (AGSE) Service, which will redefine how flagship airlines and airport customers around the globe run day-to-day operations. This role will ensure that the AGSE Service is capable, performant, and reliable enough to support the needs of AeroVect’s customers. Working with the Director of Safety, Systems, and Product, the PMT sets the direction for the product organization at AeroVect, with a purview spanning autonomous driving capabilities, fleet operations, and evaluation infrastructure. The PMT will be responsible for ensuring that every product decision for the AGSE Service is anchored in customer needs and commercial reality. They will directly engage with airline and airport customers to understand their needs, translate them into product requirements, and incorporate them into a product roadmap supporting multiple customers and business objectives. As Staff PMT, you will lead a team of PMTs in defining and owning the roadmap for each product vertical, providing the clarity and structure needed to translate high-level service goals into executable system-level plans. As a product leader, they will mentor other PMTs to grow their product skills by establishing best practices for autonomy product development - including how the team defines requirements, measures capability progress, and makes data-driven decisions. This role requires a unique blend of product leadership, technical depth, commercial fluency, and executive-level communication skills. The PMT must be a strong cross-functional leader that is capable of guiding engineering organizations through ambiguity and driving tradeoffs for a product that is both safety- and operation-critical. You Will - Define and own the AGSE Service product strategy and roadmap - Own the top-level product roadmap spanning autonomous driving capabilities, fleet operations, and evaluation infrastructure - Drive clarity on what the company is building, why, and by when to create alignment across commercial, engineering, and operations teams - Build the measurement foundation for continuous improvement - Define KPIs across capability, performance, and reliability to track product health and drive prioritization - Partner with XFN teams to develop data collection and analysis pipelines that support development, V&V, and continuous improvement - Drive technical execution across a safety-critical autonomous system - Partner with Systems Engineering to decompose product needs into system requirements, test plans, and acceptance criteria - Participate in system design discussions across Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Hardware - ensuring technical architectures serve product goals and operational realities - Work with Engineering leadership to make informed trade-off decisions that align with business goals and technical feasibility - Work with Program Management to ensure roadmap commitments are tracked, blockers are surfaced early, and dependencies are known - Provide cross-functional leadership - Communicate the product vision and status to all stakeholders, including senior leadership, customers, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing - Lead and develop a team of PMTs owning product verticals to set the direction, coach product craft, and raise the bar for how the team defines requirements and sets priorities - Establish product development frameworks and best practices that enable a growing product organization to operate effectively - Lead customer engagement and commercial execution - Own the product relationship with airline and airport customers, including establishing Statements of Work and Service Level Agreements - Translate customer needs, operator needs, and business opportunities into prioritized product investments with a data-driven backing You Have - BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience) - 5+ years of Product Management experience owning multi-system, technically complex products end-to-end - Experience building and shipping products in environments where safety, reliability, and real-time performance are non-negotiable - Proven ability to ship 0 → 1 products in a fast-paced environment - Demonstrated experience engaging directly with enterprise or operational customers - conducting discovery, translating needs into requirements, and managing relationships - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making - Track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority - Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate between technical depth and executive clarity - Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously We Prefer - MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field - 7+ years of Product Management experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical systems - 2+ years of experience leading Product Management teams - Experience engaging with regulatory stakeholders and navigating compliance requirements for autonomous systems - Strong understanding of software development, systems architecture, and data pipelines - Experience with V&V processes and working with Safety + Systems Engineering teams - Ability to engage substantively in technical design discussions and push back on engineering decisions with product rationale - Familiarity with the airside driving environment at major global airports ## About AeroVect ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AeroVect provides AI-powered autonomous ground support equipment (GSE) solutions to automate airside logistics for the world's largest airlines and airports. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: South San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Raymond Wang and Eugenio Donati ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Aviation logistics and autonomous vehicle technology (Airside Automation) - **Target Customers**: Large airlines, ground handling companies, and airports (Enterprise B2B) - **Mission/Purpose**: To enable unprecedented safety, reliability, and operational certainty in global aviation by deploying AI-powered autonomous ground support equipment. ## Products & Services - **[AeroVect Driver™]**: An AI-powered, self-driving system for Ground Support Equipment (GSE). It is trained on the world's largest airside driving dataset, provides 360° total awareness, and is designed to reduce human error, prevent costly incidents (e.g., collisions), and maximize asset uptime. It is currently deployed in live production operations. Type: Enterprise AI/Software + Hardware. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available. - **Key Metric**: - **Total Funding**: $20.0M (as of Series A, Oct 2024) - **Latest Round**: $18.0M Series A (Oct 2024) led by Nava Ventures. - **Employee Growth**: 56 employees (+62.5% YoY), with a large uptick in active job postings (156). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nava Ventures (Lead Series A), Outsiders Fund, Flybridge Capital, Graphene Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Future Back Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - **Rapid Hiring**: 156 active job postings, a **+1318.2% YoY** increase, indicating a major scaling phase. - **Proven Deployment**: Has logged the "most miles driven in live production operations" and handled tens of thousands of aircraft crossings. - **Global Presence**: Offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Atlanta, Toronto, and Frankfurt, with operations across 5 countries including the UK and Greece. ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain-Specific Platform**: Unlike general autonomy companies, AeroVect builds exclusively for the aviation airside environment, giving them a deep moat in a highly regulated, niche market with high barriers to entry. - **Production-Proven Tech**: Claims the "most miles driven in live production operations" and a proven safety record with tens of thousands of real-world aircraft crossings, offering a significant reliability advantage over competitors still in testing. - **Proprietary Dataset**: Trained on the world's largest airside driving dataset, which is a difficult-to-replicate asset. - **Clear ROI for Customers**: Directly addresses labor shortages with cost predictability, reduces insurance/accident risks, and unlocks operational efficiency (cost efficiency, safety, scale). ## Strategic Focus - **Scale & Deployment**: Moving from pilot to widespread commercial deployment, as evidenced by the massive surge in hiring for deployment and engineering roles. - **Expansion**: Growing physical presence in key aviation hubs (Frankfurt, Toronto, New York). - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring top engineering (Perception, Localization, Safety), operations, and product talent to accelerate product development and global rollout. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Work**: Employees see their technology directly supporting mission-critical operations at major international airports. - **Strong Growth Trajectory**: Joining a well-funded startup (Series A) that is in a massive hiring spree (+1300% YoY in job postings) offers significant career growth potential and project ownership. - **Culture**: Described by employees as a supportive family-like environment that aims high and pushes boundaries. The company emphasizes "significant project ownership from day one." - **Perks & Benefits**: - **Equity for all employees** - Flexible PTO (Flexible vacation) & Paid holidays - Medical coverage - Meals & snacks (in office) - **Global impact** - opportunity to travel to deploy technology at sites around the world. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid/Office presence likely required given the nature of the hardware/software deployment, with multiple office locations in the US, Canada, and Europe. ## Sources 1. [aerovect.com](https://www.aerovect.com/company) 2. [aerovect.com](https://www.aerovect.com/) 3. [aerovect.com](https://www.aerovect.com/careers) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aerovect) 5. 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