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About Rivian
Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.
About Rivian
Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.
As a company, we constantly challenge whats possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.
Role Summary At Rivian, we're redefining sustainable mobility, and autonomy is central to our next leap forward. We believe high-level autonomy won't just enhance the drive; it'll fundamentally give our customers their time back and transform the utility of their vehiclesa paradigm shift that will drive purchase decisions at scale. As a Senior Product Manager on our Autonomous Driving team, you'll be at the forefront of this revolution. You'll define the vision, strategy, and execution for specific Autonomous Driving and parking features, shaping experiences that deliver unparalleled freedom and convenience. This high-visibility role requires empathetic leadership and exceptional communication skills to influence and engage diverse teams across engineering, senior leadership, business strategy, and marketing, driving us toward this groundbreaking future.
Responsibilities Strategy
- Develop and champion a clear product vision and strategy for new and existing
highway driving and parking features, aligning with company goals and market
opportunities.
- Effectively communicate product priorities and progress to all stakeholders, including
executive leadership, engineering, design and marketing.
Product Definition
- Define scenarios, user stories, user journeys and user experience for your features.
- Collaborate with Systems engineering, and Cloud and Data teams to analyze
customers utilization of and interactions with features to identify improvements in
feature behaviors and user experience.
- Leverage market research, competitive analysis and customer insights to identify
trends, needs, and pain points, translating findings into actionable insights for
product development.
Product Execution
- Define feature milestones and scopes, and secure cross-functional alignment.
- Establish an execution plan in collaboration with development teams and project
management teams.
- As the SME, collaborate with engineering teams throughout the development
process, providing clear priorities, resolving blockers, and ensuring timely delivery of
high-quality features.
- Define and monitor KPIs for new and existing features, analyzing customer behavior and feature performance data to inform iterative improvements.
- Lead demos to the executive leadership team.
Product Comms
- Provide comms materials for release notes, owners guide, blogposts and website in
collaboration with Product Marketing and Technical Publications
Qualifications - Bachelor's or Masters in a relevant field such as Engineering, Computer Science, or
Business. MBA is a plus.
- 5+ years of Product Management experience with automotive technologies, robotics
or consumer electronics.
- Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills. Proficiency in
product/project management tools and agile methodologies.
- A strong Kaizen mindset for continuous improvement and iterative product
development.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience working with and managing external partners.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience navigating ambiguity and successfully launching products in nascent
markets (0 to 1) and scaling existing ones (1 to 1.x).
- Proven track record of bringing automated driving, ADAS or parking features to
production.
- Strong understanding of AD and ADAS standards and regulations (US and EU)
- Experience with external communications for consumer products.
Pay Disclosure Salary Range for California Based Applicants: $132,100-$165,100 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Benefits Summary: Rivian provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Coverage is effective on the first day of employment.
Equal Opportunity Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.
Candidate Data Privacy Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (Candidate Personal Data). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivians service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Seniority level
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Industries
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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