Senior Product Manager, Autonomy

Summary

Join Blue River Technology, a John Deere company, as a Senior Product Manager to build the product roadmap for scaling our fleet of autonomous tractors globally. You will develop a deep understanding of customer needs through research, identify product opportunities, define and prioritize initiatives, and collaborate with engineering for market delivery. Focus will be on technologies scaling deployment, support, analytics, and infrastructure for autonomy, ensuring a best-in-class customer experience. This role involves leading product development from ideation to commercialization, driving continuous improvement, and collaborating with leadership on long-term vision. You will evaluate new market opportunities and define key metrics to track progress. The position requires significant experience in product management within a technology company.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of direct experience as a product manager in a technology company
• Passion for creating impactful products that empower users
• Proven track record to influence, collaborate, and engage with others from a diverse set of backgrounds ranging from engineers to computer vision researchers, agronomists, field technicians, to growers
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate technical product information in a clear, concise, and creative manner
• Delivery focus and a proven understanding of the software development challenges faced by cross-functional engineering teams
• Strong organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills with an ability to resolve ambiguity and traverse between high-level strategy and low-level details
• Growth mindset with the ability to quickly learn and apply experience to new technologies, domains, and problems
• BA/BS degree in a technical or business equivalent
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time

Responsibilities

• Build a deep empathy and understanding of the customer, the business, and the market through qualitative and quantitative research
• Develop a deep understanding of our technology stack to inform what is possible
• Design and translate customer needs and opportunities into products and features with clear, concise requirements that bring the product to life
• Identify, research, define, execute, and prioritize product development initiatives in collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams, balancing performance, complexity value, and speed to market
• Lead product development initiatives through their full cycle, from ideation to lab and field testing, to customer validation and ultimately commercialization
• Drive continuous improvement in the way we build products at Blue River
• Enable and accelerate our teams to develop and deploy high-quality solutions to our customers
• Define objectives and key metrics, then measure and track progress toward achieving those objectives
• Collaborate with leadership on the long-term product vision and roadmap
• Evaluate new market opportunities from the perspective of customer needs, product fit, and business opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or knowledge of autonomous vehicles, robotics, or agriculture
• Experience with products that apply Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Experience with large-scale data, analytics, and operations challenges
• MBA or MS preferred

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefit programs