Product Manager Airspace & Autonomy - DoorDash Air

The DoorDash Air team is bringing drone delivery to reality. As the Product Manager Airspace & Autonomy for DoorDash Air's Airspace and Autonomy capabilities, you will own the end-to-end product strategy for the software, services, autonomy, perception, human interfaces and related capabilities required to deploy autonomous drone delivery at scale. You will connect DoorDash's order and logistics platform with the aircraft, autonomy stack, mission-planning services, UTM capabilities, fleet-management tools, and operator workflows that execute each delivery. You will lead product direction across autonomy, aviation software, services, hardware, systems engineering, flight operations, UTM, safety, regulatory, data, and DoorDash platform teams.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end product strategy for DoorDash Air's safety critical software, services and platform infrastructure; Integrate drone delivery into the DoorDash marketplace; Lead the autonomy product roadmap; Create the roadmap to progress from 1:1 to m:N operations; Define the data strategy for autonomous aviation; Build UTM and airspace-management capabilities; Lead standards compliance and engagement (ASTM F3201, F3548, F3411); Productize regulatory compliance (Part 135, BVLOS approvals, safety cases, Part 108 concepts); Make build, buy, and partner decisions; Define system-level success metrics; Connect technical investment to business outcomes; Shape the technical organization and coach and mentor engineers

Requirements

10+ years of product management, technical product leadership, systems leadership, or related experience, including significant responsibility for complex software or cyber-physical platforms; 5+ years of experience in autonomous systems, robotics, UAS, aviation technology, safety-critical systems, or another highly regulated real-world operating environment; A demonstrated track record of taking technically complex products from early concept or prototype through validation, deployment, and operational scale; Experience owning products that span multiple layers of a technology stack, including embedded or vehicle software, cloud services, APIs, data infrastructure, operational applications, and hardware integration; Strong technical fluency across autonomous-system concepts such as mission planning, path planning, motion planning, perception, localization, guidance and control, behavior management, contingency handling, simulation, telemetry, and command and control; Experience defining product strategy and architecture for distributed, real-time, or mission-critical systems in which reliability, safety, and operational performance are fundamental product requirements; Working knowledge of UTM, airspace-management systems, geospatial data, flight-planning services, operational volumes, conformance monitoring, and airspace interoperability; Experience operating within or building technology for FAA-regulated environments, including familiarity with any combination of National Airspace System hardware/software/procedures, Part 107, Part 135, Part 108, Part 146, BVLOS operating approvals, UTM or USS services, and evolving autonomous-flight regulations; Experience designing or scaling human-supervised autonomy, remote operations, multi-vehicle systems, fleet orchestration, or m:N operating models

Benefits

401(k) plan with employer matching; 16 weeks of paid parental leave; wellness benefits; commuter benefits match; paid time off and paid sick leave; medical, dental, and vision benefits; 11 paid holidays; disability and basic life insurance; family-forming assistance; mental health program; opportunities for equity grants; flexible paid time off/vacation and 80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles