Lead Product Manager, Hardware Platform

Job summary

Responsibilities

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai

• Own product requirements for Waabi's hardware platform across trucks and robotaxi, turning field and integration feedback into requirements for future revisions and new vehicle…
• Define how our vehicles interact with the people around them, including riders, law enforcement, first responders, and the public.
• Lead product definition for new hardware programs before engineering kickoff, turning real-world scenarios into requirements with clear acceptance criteria and a plan to verify…
• Bring an industrial design and human factors perspective to physical touchpoints like displays, lighting, reach, and controls, and validate them hands-on in mock-ups and real…
• Build trusted relationships with OEM and supplier partners, understanding their constraints and processes and keeping requirements aligned across organizations.

What they're looking for

• A hardware background, through an engineering degree (mechanical, electrical, systems, or similar) or equivalent hands-on experience, deep enough to earn engineering teams' trust…
• 8+ years of experience in product management, hardware product, or systems engineering roles on physical products, ideally in automotive, autonomous vehicles, robotics, or…
• A track record of taking hardware from concept to production, with an understanding of how requirements evolve across prototype and sample stages.
• Industrial design experience, through formal training or close work with industrial designers on shipped products, and strong instincts for HMI and human factors.
• Strong requirements writing skills. You can turn a messy real-world scenario into a clear, testable requirement, with acceptance criteria and a verification method such as test…