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title: 'Team Lead, Readiness & Response at Zoox'
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# Team Lead, Readiness & Response at Zoox

- **Company:** Zoox
- **Location:** Dallas, TX
- **Compensation:** $88k–$105k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/ddba8228-2215-48fd-bc4e-a633bca6b8e4

## Job description

As a Team Lead for Readiness and Response within Zoox’s Fleet Operations organization, you are at the forefront of the autonomous mobility revolution. You will be a key leader in our expansion into new markets, responsible for the end-to-end operational integrity of the Zoox Robotaxi and Mapping Vehicle Fleet. This role unifies the technical preparation of our vehicles (Readiness) with high-level oversight of live field incidents (Response), ensuring every Zoox vehicle is "service ready" and every mission is supported with operational excellence.

Your leadership will bridge the gap between structured depot workflows and the dynamic environment of real-time fleet response. Rather than performing hands-on technical tasks, you will drive strategy and performance by managing a hybrid workforce of Full-Time Shift Leads and contingent associates. Serving as the primary on-site escalation path for critical field incidents and holding third-party recovery partners accountable, you will directly impact Zoox’s fleet availability, safety standards, and our ability to deliver a seamless experience to our riders.

In this role, you will:

- Collaborate with Leadership: Work with Fleet Ops leaders in market, as well as Fleet Ops Program Teams, to ensure optimization of fleet utilization while driving market needs.
- Drive Unified Fleet Strategy: Oversee the execution of operational strategies for both vehicle preparation (Readiness) and incident response (Response), ensuring alignment with broader organizational uptime goals.
- Lead through Shift Leadership: Directly manage and mentor FTE Shift Leads & a contingent workforce, empowering them to oversee daily floor operations while you focus on high-level strategy, performance coaching, and site-wide operational health.
- Manage On-Site Escalations: Serve as the primary leadership escalation path for critical field incidents and service interferences, providing guidance to the team and making high-level decisions to resolve complex vehicle or rider issues.
- Manage a Hybrid Workforce: Provide administrative and people leadership for a multidisciplinary team, including onboarding, training, and performance management for contingent (contract) workforces.
- Coordinate Third-Party Vendors On The Ground: Serve as the local point of contact for vehicle recovery, roadside assistance, and facility vendors — verifying on-site service quality and response time, and flagging no-shows, defects, or service misses to the relevant Program team, who owns vendor standards, governance, and corrective action.
- Optimize Operational Workflows: Identify bottlenecks in depot workflows (software deployment, sensor cleaning), field response protocols, and work with cross-functional partners to implement process innovations to reduce vehicle downtime.
- Ensure Regulatory & Safety Compliance: Oversee adherence to all health and safety policies (OSHA) within the workshop and ensure all vehicle documentation and "Up/Down" status reporting are accurate and audit-ready.
- Synthesize Operational Data: Own the analysis and reporting of site-specific KPIs, providing leadership with data-driven insights into fleet health, team efficiency, and vendor performance.
- Travel Requirements: less than 20%

## Qualifications

- 8+ years of relevant work experience in an operations-based environment
- Experience Managing People Leaders: Demonstrated ability to manage and develop direct reports at the Shift Lead or Supervisor level.
- Contingent Workforce Management: Extensive experience leading, onboarding, and managing the performance of contractor or contingent workforces.
- Vendor & Partner Management: Demonstrated experience managing 3rd party service providers and holding external partners accountable to Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Critical Thinking under Pressure: Ability to manage high-priority escalations and make sound, data-driven decisions in fast-paced or ambiguous situations.
- Technical Aptitude: Ability to understand complex technical systems (autonomous vehicle hardware/software) to effectively lead technical teams and communicate with engineering stakeholders.
- Process Improvement Mindset: Experience facilitating Lean Six Sigma projects or similar methodologies to improve operational efficiency.
- Safety Excellence: Commitment to maintaining a culture of safety and compliance; must have a clean driving record.

Bonus Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (business management, operations, finance, etc.)
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, or a similar safety-critical industry
- Experience in a fast-paced and dynamic service environment.
- Experience with Lean Six Sigma or other process optimization methodologies.
- Familiarity with fleet management software.

## About Zoox

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zoox is building a fully autonomous, all-electric, purpose-built robotaxi service to give the world a better way to ride.
- **Entity Type**: Private (independent subsidiary of Amazon, acquired in 2020)
- **Headquarters**: Foster City, California, USA (with offices in Las Vegas, San Francisco, Austin, Miami, Atlanta, Los Angeles)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not specified in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Autonomous ride‑hailing / Self‑driving electric vehicles
- **Target customers**: B2C – individual riders seeking safe, convenient, and sustainable urban transportation
- **Mission**: “Give the world a better way to ride” – providing safer, cleaner, autonomous ride‑hailing for everyone [zoox.com](https://zoox.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Zoox Robotaxi**: A purpose‑built, fully autonomous electric vehicle designed from the ground up for ride‑hailing. Features bidirectional driving, four‑wheel steering, and no steering wheel or pedals. The service handles all charging, maintenance, and fleet management – riders simply get in and enjoy the ride [zoox.com](https://zoox.com).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Zoox is a private subsidiary of Amazon)
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (revenue and funding details are not reported as a stand‑alone entity)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Amazon (parent company)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Received authorization from the Nevada DMV to operate robotaxis on public roads [zoox.com/about](https://zoox.com/about)
  - Expanded testing and operations to Las Vegas, Seattle, San Francisco, and other cities
  - Continues to scale its engineering and operations teams (multiple open roles on the careers page as of 2026)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose‑built design**: Unlike retrofitted vehicles, Zoox’s robotaxi is designed from scratch for autonomous ride‑hailing (symmetrical, bidirectional, four‑wheel steering, no driver controls)
- **Amazon backing**: Deep financial resources, supply chain expertise, and cloud infrastructure (AWS) support rapid development and scaling
- **Full‑stack autonomy**: In‑house AI, computer vision, and sensing stack integrated directly into the vehicle design
- **Safety‑first approach**: Comprehensive testing, safety‑critical system design, and focus on public road validation

## Strategic Focus
- Achieving commercial launch of the Zoox ride‑hailing service in select U.S. cities
- Continuing to mature the autonomous driving system through real‑world testing and simulation
- Expanding the “Go‑to‑Market” strategy and building out operations teams (see CRM Lead, Go‑to‑Market Manager roles) [jobs.lever.co/zoox](https://jobs.lever.co/zoox)
- Scaling manufacturing and prototyping to prepare for fleet deployment

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Diverse, supportive community with inclusion‑focused strategy. Crew‑led groups for personal and professional development. Emphasis on trust, humility, and openness [zoox.com/careers](https://zoox.com/careers)
- **Work environment**: Hybrid? The careers page lists many roles as “On‑site” in Foster City, CA, with other office locations available. In‑office perks include a famous food program with daily changing local and sustainable dishes, plus a busy calendar of events and sports teams.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health plans (Cigna), mental health support, wellbeing program, flexible time off, generous family planning and caregiver support, and a commitment to work‑life balance.
- **Growth opportunities**: Work on cutting‑edge autonomous vehicle technology alongside some of the brightest minds in AI, engineering, computer vision, and more. Offers internships and re‑entry programs (via Path Forward) for career returners.
- **Recruitment process**: Uses AI tools to assist in reviewing applications but final decisions are human. No fees are charged at any stage – watch for recruitment scams [zoox.com/journal/landing-a-job-zoox](https://zoox.com/journal/landing-a-job-zoox)

## Sources
1. [Zoox official website](https://zoox.com)
2. [Zoox About page](https://zoox.com/about)
3. [Zoox Careers page](https://zoox.com/careers)
4. [Zoox job openings on Lever](https://jobs.lever.co/zoox)
5. [Zoox hiring and interview process](https://zoox.com/journal/landing-a-job-zoox)

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