[Hiring] Product Manager Airspace & Autonomy @DoorDash USA

Role Description

As the Head of Product 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.

• Connect DoorDash’s order and logistics platform with the aircraft, autonomy stack, mission-planning services, UTM capabilities, fleet-management tools, and operator workflows.
• Define how an order moves from merchant readiness through dispatch, airspace validation, autonomous flight, delivery, and completion within the broader DoorDash marketplace.
• Lead product direction across autonomy, aviation software, services, hardware, systems engineering, flight operations, UTM, safety, regulatory, data, and DoorDash platform teams.
• Work closely with the Head of UTM and senior Engineering and Operations leaders to establish the product roadmap.
• Coach and mentor engineers to help them understand how their work contributes to the broader vision.
• Promote best practices to ensure that DoorDash Air’s software, services, and hardware meet technical standards required for regulatory compliance.
• Set the vision, establish priorities, make informed technical and product tradeoffs, and hold cross-functional teams accountable.

This role can be remote, with periodic travel to engineering, flight-test, integration, and operational deployment locations.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Own the end-to-end product strategy for DoorDash Air’s safety critical software, services and platform infrastructure.
• Define the long-term vision, platform architecture, capability roadmap, and investment priorities across aircraft, onboard software, cloud services, operational tooling, and DoorDash platform integrations.
• Integrate drone delivery into the DoorDash marketplace.
• Define how merchant preparation, order readiness, dispatch timing, routing, customer promises, delivery-zone eligibility, and fulfillment decisions interact with aircraft availability, weather, airspace, and operational constraints.
• Lead the autonomy product roadmap.
• Establish priorities across mission planning, autonomous path and motion planning, contingency behaviors, rerouting, detect-and-avoid integration, vehicle health, payload handling, landing and delivery behaviors, and remote assistance.
• Create the roadmap to progress from 1:1 to m:N operations.
• Define the incremental technical capabilities required to move from one operator supervising one aircraft toward increasingly autonomous multi-aircraft operations.
• Define the data strategy for autonomous aviation.
• Build UTM and airspace-management capabilities.
• Lead product requirements for operational-volume generation, strategic and tactical deconfliction, dynamic rerouting, airspace authorization, constraint management, conformance monitoring, and interoperability with UTM service providers and public airspace systems.
• Lead standards compliance and engagement.
• Productize regulatory compliance.
• Make build, buy, and partner decisions.
• Define system-level success metrics.
• Connect technical investment to business outcomes.
• Shape the technical organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management, technical product leadership, systems leadership, or related experience.
• 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.
• Strong technical fluency across autonomous-system concepts.
• Experience defining product strategy and architecture for distributed, real-time, or mission-critical systems.
• 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.
• Experience designing or scaling human-supervised autonomy, remote operations, multi-vehicle systems, fleet orchestration, or m:N operating models.

Requirements

• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Experience in regulatory compliance and standards development.
• Proven ability to make informed technical and product tradeoffs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match.
• Paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance.
• Family-forming assistance and a mental health program.