Staff Product Manager, Lighting, Vision and Sensing

We are currently seeking a Staff Product Manager for Lighting, Vision and Sensing. As the Product Management Lead for Lighting, Vision, and Sensing, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and defining our cutting-edge vehicle systems. This product management-heavy role involves close collaboration with UX, marketing, and requirements engineering teams to develop attributes that enhance customer experience and satisfaction. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Strategic Vision and Leadership: 

• Lead the product vision and strategy for vehicle lighting, vision, and sensing technologies to help secure Lucid’s continual competitive advantage in a margin-appropriate fashion. 

• Translate Lucid’s unique market positioning into both strategic vectors and tactical actions for how the lighting, vision and sensing teams can support—and integrate optimally with—the entire vehicle ecosystem.   

• Holistically drive multi-year product roadmaps and align them with the company’s overall business strategy and market trends. 

• Collaborative Development and Stakeholder Engagement: 

• Work closely with UX designers to ensure seamless integration of technologies that delight customers with intuitive ease and emotional appeal, with a razor-sharp focus on incremental value vs. incremental lifecycle cost. 

• Partner with marketing teams to define market needs that identify customer value propositions and then express Lucid’s advantages in compelling ways that truly land and stick. 

• Serve as the primary point of contact between engineering, UX, marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and project success. 

• Gather insights and feedback from internal and external stakeholders, integrating them into product development processes. 

• Market Analysis, Market Research, and Innovation: 

• Conduct market analyses to identify the most forward-looking trends and innovation opportunities in vehicle sensing technologies. 

• Stay abreast of competitive offerings and ensure the company’s solutions are best-in-class. 

• Leverage a mixture of qual and quant market research techniques to gain fundamental insight into the potential response, viability, and corresponding value of lighting, vision and sensing alternatives. 

• Continually engage with research teams and top vendors to trigger development programs that could support Lucid’s leadership positioning 

• Collaborate intensively with engineering teams to optimize the relationships between product innovation, piece part cost, capital investment, time to market, and actual customer impact. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Product Management, Business, or a related field.  MBA or equivalent competence strongly desired.   

• At least 8 years of demonstrated high performance as a product manager who consistently delivers world-class products, preferably within the automotive branch or technical industries with similar rigor. 

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects under intense time pressure. 

• Possess an exceptionally innovative mindset with a passion for sustainability and electric vehicles. 

• Clear aptitude in balancing conflicting needs such as feature-benefits vs development expense vs capital investment vs product cost vs time to market. 

• Significant knowledge of vehicle lighting, vision, and sensing technologies—or a strong track record of rapid onboarding in analogous technical fields. 

• Extremely refined communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.  Experienced at persuasively presenting to upper management with targeted messaging, even when under uncomfortable pressure. 

Advantageous: 

• Proven track record of deriving deep insights from a mixture of qualitative and quantitative user experience research, including uncovering future opportunities where companies could carve out unique value for customers. 

• Very well-developed sense for visual aesthetics, user experience, and how to generate targeted customer emotional responses that could enhance Lucid’s differentiation. 

• Demonstrated understanding of mechanical engineering, plastic injection molding and related manufacturing processes, materials properties, electromechanical packaging, and optical technologies. 

• Instinctive mentor and change management agent who continually elevates the skills and capabilities of others. 

• Deep understanding of international markets and corresponding mindsets, ideally with multinational working experience. 

• Natural inclination to persistently track down and solve necessary details as an integral part of implementing the overall strategy.  Our viewpoint:  strategy without brilliant execution is useless. 

• Creative thinker who inspires and supports others in generating unexpectedly delightful solutions for demanding customers.  Extra bonus for being a frequent intellectual property contributor. 

• Show a powerful ability to inspire and guide multidisciplinary teams to deliver market-defining product and brand experiences.  Not the simple stuff—the market-defining things that generate strong brand separation from competitors. 

Education: 

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (electrical or industrial engineering, computer science, or similar), master’s degree preferred