Staff Product Manager - Autonomy Hardware

The posting, as Kodiak Robotics wrote it

Kodiak AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: KDK), founded in 2018, is a leader in Physical AI, developing driverless technology that powers machines that move. Its Kodiak Driver is a vehicle-agnostic autonomous driving system that combines AI-powered software with modular hardware. Today it operates in long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense. In 2024, Kodiak launched commercial Driver-as-a-Service operations with no one in the cab, and plans to launch driverless long-haul service between Dallas and Houston by the end of 2026.

Kodiak has partnered with many of the biggest names in freight, including Bosch for scaled hardware production, AWS, and leading customers including Atlas Energy Solutions, IKEA, Bridgestone, Werner Enterprises, C.R. England, Roehl Transport, and General Dynamics Land Systems.

Kodiak is seeking an exceptional Staff Product Manager to define and drive the strategic direction of our Level 4 autonomous trucking platform across the full hardware stack and customer deployment landscape. This role is a force-multiplier across the organization — you will set the product vision, shape the technical roadmap, and raise the bar for how Kodiak builds and ships autonomous trucking solutions at scale.
As the directly responsible individual for your product domain, you will operate with high autonomy and high accountability, influencing decisions that span engineering, commercialization, operations, and external partners. You won't just respond to the roadmap — you'll define it.

In this role, you will

• Set Strategic Direction: Own the long-term product vision for the Kodiak Driver hardware ecosystem — sensors, compute, and vehicle integration — translating market signals, customer insights, and technical constraints into a coherent multi-year roadmap. Identify platform-level opportunities that unlock scalability and competitive differentiation.
• Drive Architecture-Level Decisions: Lead requirements development across the full hardware stack, making principled trade-offs that balance capability, cost, and deployment readiness. Perform rigorous first- and third-party analyses spanning engineering, business, and regulatory dimensions to ground product decisions in reality.
• Elevate Cross-Functional Execution: Partner deeply with engineering, operations, supply chain, systems engineering, and perception teams to align development efforts with strategic priorities. Drive cross-functional clarity at the program level — removing blockers, resolving ambiguity, and ensuring scope and timelines are both ambitious and achievable.
• Define How We Ship: Own the full product lifecycle end-to-end, from requirements through deployment and iteration. Build the feedback loops between field operations and engineering that accelerate learning and improve product quality across commercial deployments.
• Influence at the Executive Level: Provide clear, high-signal communication to leadership, engineering, and customers on autonomy software maturity,

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