Product Manager Airspace & Autonomy - DoorDash Air
$193,800–$285,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end product strategy for DoorDash Air's safety-critical software, services, and platform infrastructure required to deploy autonomous drone delivery at scale. Define the long-term vision, capability roadmap, and investment priorities across aircraft, onboard software, cloud services, operational tooling, and DoorDash marketplace integrations. Integrate drone delivery into the existing platform by defining how merchant preparation, dispatch timing, routing, and fulfillment decisions interact with aircraft availability, weather, and airspace constraints. Lead the autonomy product roadmap, establishing priorities for mission planning, path and motion planning, contingency behaviors, detect-and-avoid integration, and human-autonomy interface design. Build UTM and airspace-management capabilities to support operational-volume generation, strategic deconfliction, dynamic rerouting, and interoperability with public airspace systems. Champion compliance with ASTM standards and translate regulatory requirements like Part 135 and BVLOS approvals into reusable software and workflow capabilities. Make build, buy, and partner decisions based on strategic differentiation and operational risk, while defining system-level success metrics across delivery success, route efficiency, and cost per delivery. Shape the technical organization to scale beyond individual experts and progress from 1:1 to m:N operations.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of product management, technical product leadership, systems leadership, or related experience
- 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
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