Job Description

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Who we are:

Based in Oxford and with offices in Canada and the US, Oxa is an international startup founded in 2014 and scaling up rapidly (300+ Oxbots and growing).

As the global leader in our industry, we\'re fuelled by a bold purpose: to make the Earth move better. From passenger shuttles to industrial vehicles, our operating system for Universal Autonomy\xe2\x84\xa2 is transforming the way people and goods are transported by enabling any vehicle, in any environment, to operate autonomously - safely, securely and efficiently.

Our technology is capturing investors\' imagination. To date we\'ve raised $140 million in our Series C investment round. Accommodating growing demand from new and current shareholders, this funding is driving our expansion in North America and EMEA , and accelerating the deployment of our technology in domains where there is both urgent need and potential to scale.

Your Role:

Our Solutions Stream Lead will direct, encourage and support a team singularly focussed on programs providing autonomous vehicle solutions (software, hardware and operations) to a set of closely related customers in a commercial sector. You will lead a set of individuals singularly focussed on a product providing autonomous vehicle solutions (software, hardware and operations) to a set of closely related customers in a commercial sector. For example mining, agriculture or urban shuttles. You will work in tight collaboration with product and commercial managers in your team ensuring that we deliver commercial solutions. This is a senior role, requiring a diverse set of skills, as it is a role of immense impact.

Your Responsibilities:

• Representing Oxa to the customer and being the outward and inward facing representative of the product built around them
• Leading a team who are singularly focussed on a product providing a driverless vehicle solution (hardware, software, operations) to a set of customers with common requirements.
• The delivery of the product that improves our customers\' business by using Oxa\'s autonomy products/platforms. Your team encapsulates this relationship and they and you are proactive
• Providing a quality customer experience. You do this by ensuring the internal engineering teams building the customer solutions are in receipt of high quality requirements, technical planning and communications. This involves partnering with Product Management to define the work packages that close gaps in our solution and align with customer requirements.
• Leading and coordinating analysis activities and workshops that identify user workflow gaps, product performance issues and root causes of problems.
• Driving and owning cross-team execution of initiatives related to your product.
• Reviewing design proposals and work plans for completeness and cross-compatibility.
• Responding to technical questions from the customer and leading discussions/presentations on the solution.
• Driving the adoption of metrics-based reporting of development initiatives related to the product and its delivery.
• High-quality, data-driven reporting on product progress.
• You are the owner of the product with the customer and communicate clearly for all levels of the engagement with stakeholders external and internal to Oxa.
• Resourcing for the product delivery and driving hiring for your team

Requirements:

What you need to succeed:

• Experience in autonomous vehicles and the application of robotics and automation technology to commercial settings
• You are a natural \xe2\x80\x9cunblocker\xe2\x80\x9d. You naturally take ownership of problems and revel in driving things forward.
• You have an analytical mind, you are a structured thinker that can work in a fast-paced complex matrix environment
• Extensive experience in interfacing with customers and partners. You love meeting customers and making what they need.
• Extensive experience in working with Engineers and describing the vision of the product and the need for components needed to succeed in that product delivery
• An ability to understand both strategic and tactical requirements in product delivery.

The Candidate Journey: Multi-Step and Two-Way

No-one wants to feel like a square peg in a round hole, so this process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. The various stages give you every opportunity to show your unique strengths and qualities, and enables each of us to establish if we\'re a good fit for the other. If the fit is good and you\'re selected, you\'re then in a position to do great work and thrive, which is what everyone wants.

Benefits:

We provide:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
• Private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, employee assistance programme and group income protection. Private medical insurance covers any pre-existing conditions and allows claims with no excess to pay. Our core policy covers additional benefits for neurodivergence, transgender and menopause support.
• A salary exchange pension plan; Oxa matches your contributions up to 5% of your earnings.
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 UK bank holidays
• Flexible benefits to build on all our core benefits, we offer a \xc2\xa32,000 per year flexible benefits fund designed to let you take advantage of any additional benefits that are important to you. This could include things like private dental cover, buying new tech or expanding your private medical to include loved ones. There\'s also an option to increase the levels of cover for schemes like life assurance and critical illness, if those would be topics you\'re interested in.
• A pet friendly office environment
• Safe assigned spaces for team members with individual and diverse needs

Our Culture

We promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day. Oxa is proud to be an inclusive organisation and, as such, we require all team members within our recruitment process to understand and deploy best practices focused on de-biasing the whole recruitment cycle.We also apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. Please share with us any individual needs or reasonable adjustments we may need to make in advance of commencing the interview process with us.

Learn more about our culture .

Why become an Oxbot?

Our team of experts in computer science, AI, robotics and machine learning is world-class, and together they\'re solving the most exciting and important technological challenges of our times.

But as well as smarts, Oxbots have heart. Our diverse, multi-cultural crew is guided by a shared vision to bring the myriad benefits of autonomy to our customers and partners. And in a company that celebrates uniqueness as much as skill and experience, they do it with energy, conviction and a healthy dose of excitement, too.

If you are bold, creative and hyper skilled, come and create the future of autonomy with us at Oxa.

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