Autonomy Manager, Construction (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Onsite in Chicago, Illinois, USA; travel up to 30% required, including collaboration with domestic and international customers, dealers, technology partners, and hirify.global teams.

Base pay: $130,000.

Company

hirify.global develops technologies, equipment, and services for construction, mining, forklift, industrial, and forestry markets, operating globally from its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.

What you will do

• Develop and release autonomy offerings for the North American off-highway market with technology partners and internal teams.
• Create market introduction strategies and roadmap business plans to expand autonomous technologies beyond historical mining applications.
• Lead a growing autonomy team and drive adoption through dealers, regional teams, marketing, and high-value customer opportunities.
• Manage project deployments, onboarding, KPIs, scheduling, resources, and customer mentoring to accelerate value realization.
• Establish dealer training, parts and logistics, pricing, forecasting, stocking, product-line management, and CRM capabilities.
• Analyze customer and field feedback to improve solutions, prevent recurring issues, and share knowledge with internal and partner teams.

Requirements

• 2+ years of successful experience in vehicle autonomous or automation technology development, deployment, and/or commercialization.
• Understanding of construction, aggregate, quarry, or mining customer operations and their daily business pain points and needs.
• University degree (B.S./B.A.) in Engineering, Construction, Mining, or another relevant field, and/or 2+ years of experience in construction, quarry, or mining-related industries.
• Ability to work effectively in a global, distributed, fast-paced team and address support needs.
• Strong organization and efficient time and people management skills, particularly for optimizing daily activity, end-user requests, and discrete projects.

Nice to have

• Ability to understand different audiences and communicate clearly and efficiently from their perspective.
• Ability to analyze technical situations and user issues, determine root causes, and identify logically structured actions leading to resolution.
• Desire to help others and share knowledge with users and colleagues.
• Strong presentation and oral communication skills, including proficiency with MS Office and various digital platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Diverse and inclusive work environment centered on ambition, perseverance, collaboration, and authenticity.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) and/or employee savings programs.
• Vacation, designated holidays, employee and family assistance programs, disability benefits, and life insurance.
• Employee learning and development programs.