We're looking for a Product Manager for our core hardware products. In this role, your core responsibility will be to maintain the roadmap, and develop the communications and marketing of our lidar sensors. This will include building a strong relationship with our engineering team and acting as the owner of our technical marketing including sensor datasheets, roadmaps, changelogs. You will be the subject matter expert on our sensors, clearly communicate product capabilities, create compelling visual product demonstrations, and assist in defining future products. This is a role for a leader, self-starter, a strong communicator, a hungry learner, someone who is comfortable getting technical with our products, and most importantly someone who wants to have a huge impact in one of the most transformational industries in the world today.
If you're driven to create, innovate, and build technology that will fundamentally change how we live and work, you've come to the right place.
This role is based in San Francisco with a required minimum of 4 days per week in-office
Responsibilities:
- Deeply understand our technology, working closely with our product and engineering teams.
- Manage the roadmap and product release timelines and communicate those timelines to our internal teams and external stakeholders
- Understand how our end-users integrate our products and manage the definition and introduction of accessories to accelerate deployments and improve customer experience
- Own technical documentation to save our customers time and improve their experience
- Internally serve as the expert on our sensors technical capabilities and communicate those capabilities in simple language to our internal team and to customers
- Define our messaging and our content strategies, as well as be a key driver of the product roadmap. Be the expert in how to sell our unique features and technology
- Understand our technical personas and help create technical focused marketing pushes to them in relevant forums (Github, Reddit, etc.)
You Have:
- Comfort with highly technical details and a strong curiosity
- Confident in interpretation of technical lidar topics
- Outgoing and enjoy outward communication and teaching about lidar technology
- Exceptional writing and communication skills. Ability to tell a compelling story of how our products solve problems for our customers
- Great teamwork and teambuilding skills. Ability to build relationships across all functions in the company
- Bias towards action. You will be the technical expert on our lidar sensor and will need to take an ownership mindset towards all aspects of the product.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, entrepreneurial, growth minded company
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in engineering
- Engineering experience with lidar sensors
Desired but not required:
- A history or examples of written technical guides
- Experience with hardware products
- Worked with other sensors such as 2D lidar, cameras, radar, or thermal cameras
The base pay will be dependent on your skills, work experience, location, and qualifications. This role may also be eligible for equity & benefits. ($105,000-$195,000)
We acknowledge the confidence gap at Ouster. You do not need to meet all of these requirements to be the ideal candidate for this role.
