Product Manager - Lidar

Job Description

Job Description

At Ouster, we're building a safer, smarter, and more sustainable future by bringing vision to the machines that shape our world. As a leading global provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors, we are the 'eyes' behind the autonomy revolution, powering advancements across a wide range of industries, including automotive, industrial automation, robotics, and smart infrastructure.

Our groundbreaking digital lidar architecture is transforming what's possible, delivering an unprecedented combination of performance, reliability, and affordability. This technology isn’t just an incremental improvement—it’s a leap forward that is making 3D vision ubiquitous and accelerating the path to a fully autonomous future.

We are a team of ambitious and collaborative people passionate about solving some of the world's most complex technical challenges. We foster a fast-paced, high-impact environment where curiosity is rewarded, and every team member has the opportunity to own their work from concept to reality.

We’re looking for a Product Manager for our core hardware products. In this role, your core responsibility will be to maintain the roadmap, and develop the communications and marketing of our lidar sensors. This will include building a strong relationship with our engineering team and acting as the owner of our technical marketing including sensor datasheets, roadmaps, changelogs. You will be the subject matter expert on our sensors, clearly communicate product capabilities, create compelling visual product demonstrations, and assist in defining future products. This is a role for a leader, self-starter, a strong communicator, a hungry learner, someone who is comfortable getting technical with our products, and most importantly someone who wants to have a huge impact in one of the most transformational industries in the world today.

If you’re driven to create, innovate, and build technology that will fundamentally change how we live and work, you’ve come to the right place.

This role is based in San Francisco with a required minimum of 4 days per week in-office

Responsibilities :

• Deeply understand our technology, working closely with our product and engineering teams.
• Manage the roadmap and product release timelines and communicate those timelines to our internal teams and external stakeholders
• Understand how our end-users integrate our products and manage the definition and introduction of accessories to accelerate deployments and improve customer experience
• Own technical documentation to save our customers time and improve their experience
• Internally serve as the expert on our sensors technical capabilities and communicate those capabilities in simple language to our internal team and to customers
• Define our messaging and our content strategies, as well as be a key driver of the product roadmap. Be the expert in how to sell our unique features and technology
• Understand our technical personas and help create technical focused marketing pushes to them in relevant forums (Github, Reddit, etc.)

You Have :

Desired but not required :

The base pay will be dependent on your skills, work experience, location, and qualifications. This role may also be eligible for equity & benefits. ($105,000-$195,000)

We acknowledge the confidence gap at Ouster. You do not need to meet all of these requirements to be the ideal candidate for this role.

Ouster is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Ouster does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military status, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. Ouster also strives for a healthy and safe workplace, and prohibits harassment of any kind. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ouster considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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