Head of Product Management
Listed on 2026-10-05
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Business
Operations Management
Location:
Birmingham, Alabama Who Is Autocar
Autocar, LLC is a manufacturer of severe-duty vocational trucks and carries the distinction of being the first specialized truck brand in North America and the only American-owned and operated truck OEM. Autocar’s severe-duty vocational trucks are purpose-built around the work our customers need to perform - providing the right tool for the job with a relentless focus on uptime, support, and measurable impact on the customer’s bottom line.
We work closely with our customers to understand their unique applications and build trucks to their specific operational requirements. Our commitment is to deliver the best value, the best service, and a complete solution that helps our customers perform at their best.
Location:
Birmingham, Alabama Who Is Autocar
Autocar, LLC is a manufacturer of severe-duty vocational trucks and carries the distinction of being the first specialized truck brand in North America and the only American-owned and operated truck OEM. Autocar’s severe-duty vocational trucks are purpose-built around the work our customers need to perform - providing the right tool for the job with a relentless focus on uptime, support, and measurable impact on the customer’s bottom line.
We work closely with our customers to understand their unique applications and build trucks to their specific operational requirements. Our commitment is to deliver the best value, the best service, and a complete solution that helps our customers perform at their best.
The Director of Product Management will own product definition for the Autocar DC-64 and serve as our senior authority on how customers use severe-service conventional trucks across concrete, construction, dump, roll-off, logging, and other demanding applications.
This leader will spend meaningful time where trucks actually work understanding customer operations, identifying the problems that constrain productivity and uptime, and determining which problems Autocar should solve.
You will translate those insights into measurable product requirements, optimized vehicle specifications, application architectures, body-integration standards, and a prioritized multiyear product roadmap.
Product Management owns what the truck must accomplish, for whom, under what operating conditions, and what economic value it must create. Engineering owns how the solution is designed, validated, and released.The objective is clear:
make every Autocar DC-64 is the best tool , purpose-built for the customer’s specific job, whilst delivering the uptime, productivity, and total cost of ownership that create measurable value over the life of the truck.
What You Will Own- Customer & Application Understanding:
Spend substantial time with fleets, drivers, technicians, body manufacturers, and equipment suppliers to understand how trucks operate in the real world. Build a fact-based understanding of duty cycles, payload, terrain, productivity constraints, downtime, maintenance, safety, body integration, and customer economics. - Product & Application Definition:
Translate customer operating requirements into clear product definitions and measurable vehicle requirements across chassis, powertrain, suspension, braking, steering, electrical systems, controls, cab environment, body integration, reliability, serviceability, and uptime. - Scalable Product Intelligence:
Convert Autocar’s customer-engineered, build-to-order advantage into repeatable application architectures, proven configurations, reusable engineering solutions,…
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