Program Manager (Fleet Readiness & Response)

• The Readiness & Response Team keeps Zoox’s robotaxi fleet moving
• Readiness prepares vehicles for service; Response protects the mission once vehicles are live — recovering vehicles, recovering riders, and coordinating incident response across every market we operate
• When a robotaxi needs help on public roads, Response is what gets there, and our dispatchers are the nerve center that makes it happen
• As Program Manager, Response, you own the Response program end to end and lead the centralized dispatch team that runs it
• You will not lead crews in the field — market leadership owns field execution
• You own dispatch, the recovery vendor network, the metric set, and the standards that make Response work the same way in Las Vegas as it does in Atlanta
• This is a builder’s role in a program scaling toward a national footprint without scaling headcount at the same rate, and you will spend as much time designing how the work should be done as you will running it
• Lead the dispatch team: Manage, coach, and develop a team of Readiness and Response Dispatchers providing 24-hour coverage across all markets — including hiring, shift structure, scheduling, on-call rotation, and performance management
• Own Response program execution: Drive the four pillars of the program — vehicle recovery, rider recovery, incident response, and dispatch and oversight — across San Francisco, Foster City, Las Vegas, Austin, Miami, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, and stand the program up in each new market we launch
• Run the recovery vendor network: Hold third-party tow and rider recovery partners to their service levels through scorecards, escalation, and capacity planning, partnering with Logistics on contracts and Finance on cost per recovery
• Own the metrics: Define, instrument, and report the Response metric set — time to dispatch, dispatch to cleared scene, dispatch cancellation rate, recovery SLA attainment, recovery damage events, and cost per recovery — and use it to drive decisions rather than describe them
• Standardize the work: Support authoring and maintaining the workflows, escalation matrices, and management-of-change process that keep Response consistent across markets — build once, deploy everywhere
• Close the loop on incidents: Run post-incident retrospectives to a real standard — containment, solution, preventive action — and make sure the assigned actions actually land
• Partner across the stack: Work with Mission Control, GSOC, the Fusion Center, Safety, Product, and market leadership to remove the friction that shows up between the dispatch decision and the cleared scene
• Communicate up and out: Deliver the weekly Response update to leadership and represent the program in business reviews — TL;DR first, data-backed, no surprises

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Affinity groups and sports clubs
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance
• Our crew’s health and happiness is our first priority. We offer comprehensive health and mental health support, a wellbeing program, and unlimited and flexible paid time away
• We invest in our crew—and their families—for the long term. That includes generous family planning support, caregiver support, and strong cash compensation with great equity upside
• We look after our crew when they’re in the office too. Our famous food program is a great example, featuring a daily changing menu of local and sustainable dishes
• There’s a busy calendar of social events at Zoox, with more sports teams than you can count. And, of course, playing with robots is an important part of the job description- Proven track record of building operational processes from scratch and driving adoption across multiple sites or markets
• Direct people leadership experience: hiring, coaching, and managing a team through a 24/7 shift-based schedule
• 5+ years of program or project management experience in live operations — field operations, logistics, transportation, emergency services, or fleet
• Demonstrated experience running real-time dispatch, command center, or incident response operations, including remaining decisive under pressure and interfacing with external parties during live events
• Experience managing third-party vendors to measurable performance standards — service levels, scorecards, escalation, and capacity coverage
• Bachelor’s degree in business management, operations, or a similar field discipline
• Fluency with operational data: able to define a metric, source it from a dashboard, and defend the conclusion. Experience with Looker, Databricks, Jira, or equivalent tooling
• Willingness to travel to markets (20% – 25%) and to be reachable for major incidents outside of standard hours
• Excellent written communication — able to compress a messy operating week into a briefing an executive reads in ninety seconds
• Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or another safety-critical operating environment
• Formal incident management training (ICS / NIMS) or a public safety, EMS, or emergency dispatch background
• Experience standing up operations in new geographies or supporting new market launches
• Experience with workforce planning or labor modeling for shift-based teams