Product Manager, Autonomy & Drones

DoorDash USA•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Come help us redefine last-mile logistics through robotics, automation, and other advanced technologies! DoorDash Labs is an independent team inside of DoorDash incubating long-term bets and exploring new technologies that can be applied to transform last-mile logistics. We believe in the value of advanced technologies and strive to build meaningful applications of next-generation hardware and software to impact real-world needs. We’re looking for a product manager to help bring autonomous drones and other high-tech automation products to market, at scale. This role will focus on building the product platforms, tooling, and workflows required to enable autonomous operations and support successful program launches. You will work closely with engineering, design, and ops to define and deliver products that operate at the intersection of software, hardware, and real-world constraints.

Requirements

You have 5+ years of Product Management experience in robotics, autonomy, AI, or other complex technical products. Preferably products involving both hardware and software
You have experience in driving product strategy, vision, and roadmap alignment
You want to own a product across the full lifecycle from product development, through launch, commercialization, and scaling
You love digging into data: defining metrics and KPIs based on product goals, owning reporting via dashboard and data visualization, and are familiar with SQL.
You’re a hands-on owner, willing to drive execution in addition to strategy
You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and navigating real-world constraints
You are a skilled communicator, and have experience crafting and presenting product and business reviews to senior executives
You approach product management with empathy for users

Responsibilities

Drive the product definition, strategy, and long term vision of DoorDash robotics and autonomous delivery products
Own cross-functional work streams spanning a broad group of stakeholders including software and hardware engineering, design, operations, legal, policy, communications, and business development.
Lead product development across the full lifecycle, from early discovery and development through launch, commercialization, and scaling
Build and evolve internal platforms and tools that support autonomous operations and day-to-day workflows
Partner closely with operations and flight teams to translate real-world needs into scalable product solutions
Define KPIs and success metrics, and communicate product strategy and results to key stakeholders including the leadership team
Refine requirements based on the product strategy and business needs
Ensure products are launch-ready by aligning technical, operational, safety, and regulatory considerations
Work with a world-class team of engineers and business leaders to bring autonomy-powered solutions to life

Benefits

comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act).
DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

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