Software Product Manager, Design Technology

The Design Technology Platform team is focused primarily on the needs of software product teams developing Tesla's PLM/CAD software platform, used by design engineers at Tesla to develop our consumer products. Our software product teams need automated solutions that eliminate toil for provisioning of environments, software deployment, testing, and code promotion.
The team is also currently responsible for monitoring of the production environment. End users of the platform need highly performant and reliable tools to collaborate on design of Tesla's products. Software operations involving large CAD assemblies are resource-intensive and our tools must keep up with our engineer's imaginations.
The team consists of veteran Site Reliability and DevOps engineers. As the Software Product Manager for the team, you will identify and prioritize the most important problems to solve for your customers, collaborate with the team to deliver solutions, and measure outcomes.
This role is based out of Austin, TX or Palo Alto, CA.


Responsibilities

• Discover and prioritize the most important problems to solve through deep understanding of your customers and their needs
• Define metrics for measuring business impact and use them to make data-driven prioritization decisions
• Define and socialize product vision, strategy, and an outcome-based roadmap, in alignment with those of the platform product teams
• Prepare actionable epics, stories, and bugs and collaborate with the Technical Lead on maintaining a prioritized backlog for the team, balancing business outcomes with tasks that enable the team to reliably deliver customer value at a sustainable pace
• Validate that delivered solutions solve intended business objectives by applying predefined measures
• Coordinate release of software, including release notes, documentation, training, and internal marketing, in the context of platform operations

Requirements

• Experience delivering highly technical software products
• Experience using Agile methodologies to collaborate directly with a software engineering team
• Strong focus on user-centered design and measurable outcomes
• Experience delivering products for software engineers
• Familiarity with Site Reliability best practices
• Experience operating large scale software products as a service with user-centered production metrics
• Experience delivering outcomes using large commercial software platforms and managing vendor interactions
• Experience with PLM/CAD software products, such as Dassault Systemes' 3DExperience, Catia, Enovia, etc
• Experience delivering products that run on Kubernetes

Compensation and Benefits
Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• LGBTQ+ care concierge services
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program


Expected Compensation

$108,000 - $228,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.