Director of Product – Navigation

Director of Product – Navigation

Requirements

• 8+ years of leadership experience: Managed teams and drove strategic initiatives in diverse organizational settings.
• 10+ years of product management experience: Led product development and strategy with a strong track record of successful launches.
• Technical expertise: Prior experience in delivering APIs, SDKs, and/or iOS/Android Apps would be valuable in this role.
• Strong academic foundation: A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Ownership & execution: Own the technical product vision, lead the strategy, and work alongside engineering counterparts to guide the team in executing the plan to build the future of navigation.
• Organization building: You understand the 10X difference between good and great engineering organizations and strive to be the force multiplier to help your org get there.
• Customer focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
• Growth mindset: Have the humility to accept mistakes, learn and grow from them.
• Partnership: You get to partner with product, design & key stakeholders to help drive key search decisions that influence the business.
• Strong written and vocal communication skills: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience.
• Operational excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in your organization.
• Data-informed mindset: You believe in the value of data-informed decision-making and strive to measure things that are not straightforward but essential.
• Hire & elevate: Great leaders understand the importance of hiring the best talent and creating a culture where team members can learn & grow with the organization.
• Experience bringing products to market: You have a proven track record of shipping successful products. You have experience coordinating deadlines, setting pricing, developing a marketing strategy, and enabling support teams.
• High standards for work: You drive a culture of quality on the teams you work with and know how to drive healthy tension between quality and velocity.

Responsibilities

• Shape the Vision: Develop and communicate a clear product vision for our Navigation SDK and Apps that is in alignment with overall company goals. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product managers, instilling product management best practices and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Develop the Roadmap: Translate the vision into an executable, data-driven, customer-facing roadmap with engineering teams. Work closely with engineering to ensure we are delivering customer-delighting and operationally excellent features.
• Advocate for the Customer: Engage directly with customers, developers, and key partners to understand their needs, gather feedback, and evangelize the product. Drive customer-centric solutions that elevate the usability and performance of the Navigation product.
• Promote Collaboration and Innovation: Conduct extensive market and competitive research to identify growth opportunities and emerging trends in mapping, geospatial, and navigation technologies.
• Make data-driven decisions: Use analytics, user metrics, and market insights to inform priorities and measure success. Drive continuous improvement through experimentation, A/B testing, and iterative feedback loops.
• Collaborate: Partner with engineering leads to balance feature development with technical debt and platform scalability. Work closely with marketing, sales, and customer success teams to optimize go-to-market strategies, product messaging, and client support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in Maps and Navigation. While domain expertise is valuable, at our core, we are individuals who are technical, customer-focused, genuinely curious, adaptive, and eager to transform customer experiences from what they are today.
• Prior experience in Perception, ADAS, and Automotive HMI.