Staff Product Manager, Vehicle AI

As Staff Product Manager for Vehicle AI at Skydio, you will own the roadmap for advancing vehicle intelligence, working with the autonomy team to define how autonomous systems perceive, reason, plan, and act. You will partner with engineering, design, and customers to deliver new capabilities, driving the end-to-end autonomy development lifecycle from data collection to deployment.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for advancing Skydio's autonomous capabilities and vehicle intelligence.
• Define how autonomous systems should perceive, reason, plan, communicate, and act in real-world environments.
• Work with customers and field teams to understand operational workflows and translate them into autonomy requirements.
• Drive the end-to-end autonomy development lifecycle, including data collection, labeling, training, simulation, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Define benchmarks, success metrics, and validation frameworks for autonomy performance, safety, and reliability.
• Own the user experience of autonomy, including how operators specify goals, understand system intent, and collaborate with autonomous systems.
• Partner across machine learning, perception, planning, simulation, data platform, and software engineering teams to deliver new capabilities.
• Evaluate and apply emerging technologies, including foundation models, multimodal AI, and agentic systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years building deeply technical products in robotics, AI/ML, autonomous systems, or other complex software domains.
• Strong technical fluency and comfort working closely with engineers on system architecture, model performance, and technical tradeoffs.
• Experience building products that improve through data, machine learning, or continuous feedback loops.
• Experience and aptitude for large scale data analytics skills and ability to generate data-driven insights
• Passion for understanding real-world customer workflows and translating them into product strategy.
• Excellent judgment in ambiguous environments and the ability to prioritize high-impact opportunities.
• Strong ownership mindset and a track record of driving cross-functional initiatives from concept to deployment.
• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.

Benefits

• At Skydio, our compensation packages for regular, full-time employees include competitive base salaries, equity in the form of stock options, and comprehensive benefits packages. Compensation will vary based on factors, including skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience. Relocation assistance may also be provided for eligible roles. The annual base salary range for this position is $196,500 - $250,000*. Fundamentally, we believe that equity is the key to long-term financial growth, and we ensure all regular, full-time employees have the opportunity to significantly benefit from the company's success. Regular, full-time employees are eligible to enroll in the Company’s group health insurance plans. Regular, full-time employees are eligible to receive the following benefits: Paid vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay and 401K savings plan. This position and all associated benefits are subject to applicable federal, state, and local laws, as well as the Company’s policies and eligibility criteria.