Staff Product Manager, AGSE Service at Aerovect in Atlanta, GA

WHO WE ARE AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com http://www.aerovect.com. The Staff PMT is responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap, and product requirements for AeroVect’s Autonomous Ground Support Equipment (AGSE) Service, which will redefine how flagship airlines and airport customers around the globe run day-to-day operations. This role will ensure that the AGSE Service is capable, performant, and reliable enough to support the needs of AeroVect’s customers. Working with the Director of Safety, Systems, and Product, the PMT sets the direction for the product organization at AeroVect, with a purview spanning autonomous driving capabilities, fleet operations, and evaluation infrastructure. The PMT will be responsible for ensuring that every product decision for the AGSE Service is anchored in customer needs and commercial reality. They will directly engage with airline and airport customers to understand their needs, translate them into product requirements, and incorporate them into a product roadmap supporting multiple customers and business objectives. As Staff PMT, you will lead a team of PMTs in defining and owning the roadmap for each product vertical, providing the clarity and structure needed to translate high-level service goals into executable system-level plans. As a product leader, they will mentor other PMTs to grow their product skills by establishing best practices for autonomy product development - including how the team defines requirements, measures capability progress, and makes data-driven decisions. This role requires a unique blend of product leadership, technical depth, commercial fluency, and executive-level communication skills. The PMT must be a strong cross-functional leader that is capable of guiding engineering organizations through ambiguity and driving tradeoffs for a product that is both safety- and operation-critical. YOU WILL - Define and own the AGSE Service product strategy and roadmap - Own the top-level product roadmap spanning autonomous driving capabilities, fleet operations, and evaluation infrastructure - Drive clarity on what the company is building, why, and by when to create alignment across commercial, engineering, and operations teams - Build the measurement foundation for continuous improvement - Define KPIs across capability, performance, and reliability to track product health and drive prioritization - Partner with XFN teams to develop data collection and analysis pipelines that support development, V&V, and continuous improvement - Drive technical execution across a safety-critical autonomous system - Partner with Systems Engineering to decompose product needs into system requirements, test plans, and acceptance criteria - Participate in system design discussions across Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Hardware - ensuring technical architectures serve product goals and operational realities - Work with Engineering leadership to make informed trade-off decisions that align with business goals and technical feasibility - Work with Program Management to ensure roadmap commitments are tracked, blockers are surfaced early, and dependencies are known - Provide cross-functional leadership - Communicate the product vision and status to all stakeholders, including senior leadership, customers, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing - Lead and develop a team of PMTs owning product verticals to set the direction, coach product craft, and raise the bar for how the team defines requirements and sets priorities - Establish product development frameworks and best practices that enable a growing product organization to operate effectively - Lead customer engagement and commercial execution - Own the product relationship with airline and airport customers, including establishing Statements of Work and Service Level Agreements - Translate customer needs, operator needs, and business opportunities into prioritized product investments with a data-driven backing YOU HAVE - BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience) - 5+ years of Product Management experience owning multi-system, technically complex products end-to-end - Experience building and shipping products in environments where safety, reliability, and real-time performance are non-negotiable - Proven ability to ship 0 → 1 products in a fast-paced environment - Demonstrated experience engaging directly with enterprise or operational customers - conducting discovery, translating needs into requirements, and managing relationships - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making - Track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority - Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate between technical depth and executive clarity - Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously WE PREFER - MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field - 7+ years of Product Management experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical systems - 2+ years of experience leading Product Management teams - Experience engaging with regulatory stakeholders and navigating compliance requirements for autonomous systems - Strong understanding of software development, systems architecture, and data pipelines - Experience with V&V processes and working with Safety + Systems Engineering teams - Ability to engage substantively in technical design discussions and push back on engineering decisions with product rationale - Familiarity with the airside driving environment at major global airports