Product Manager Airspace & Autonomy (Drone Delivery)

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States

Salary: $193,800–$285,000 USD base salary per year, plus potential equity grants.

Company

hirify.global Labs is hirify.global’s innovation hub, developing automation and robotics solutions for last-mile logistics, including autonomous drone delivery.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end product strategy, architecture, roadmap, and investment priorities for safety-critical drone delivery software, services, aircraft integrations, and platform infrastructure.
• Integrate merchant readiness, dispatch, routing, delivery-zone eligibility, customer promises, aircraft availability, weather, airspace, and operational constraints into the hirify.global marketplace.
• Lead autonomy capabilities including mission planning, path and motion planning, contingency behavior, rerouting, detect-and-avoid integration, remote assistance, and delivery operations.
• Define the roadmap from one operator supervising one aircraft to multi-aircraft operations through fleet orchestration, exception management, task allocation, remote intervention, and human-autonomy interfaces.
• Build UTM and airspace-management capabilities covering deconfliction, dynamic rerouting, airspace authorization, conformance monitoring, and interoperability with UTM providers and public airspace systems.
• Guide standards compliance, regulatory productization, build-versus-partner decisions, success metrics, business cases, and the technical organization needed to scale operations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management, technical product leadership, systems leadership, or related experience with complex software or cyber-physical platforms.
• 5+ years in autonomous systems, robotics, UAS, aviation technology, safety-critical systems, or another highly regulated operating environment.
• Experience taking technically complex products from concept or prototype through validation, deployment, and operational scale.
• Experience spanning embedded or vehicle software, cloud services, APIs, data infrastructure, operational applications, and hardware integration.
• Technical fluency in mission planning, path and motion planning, perception, localization, guidance and control, simulation, telemetry, command and control, and contingency handling.
• Experience with UTM, airspace management, geospatial data, FAA-regulated environments, BVLOS approvals, Part 107 or Part 135, and human-supervised or multi-vehicle autonomy.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a highly senior robotics and autonomy organization focused on deploying drone delivery at scale.
• Comprehensive benefits for regular employees, including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and mental health support.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching, paid parental leave, family-forming assistance, wellness benefits, and commuter benefits matching.
• Salaried employees receive flexible paid time off, 80 hours of paid sick time per year, and 11 paid holidays.