How to apply for Director of Product

About May Mobility

May Mobility builds autonomous electric vehicles and the software that drives them. Its Multi-Policy Decision Making system is the core technology, and the company has given over 500,000 autonomous rides since 2017. The work focuses on closing public transit gaps and reducing congestion in cities.

About the role

The Director of Product leads product development, product strategy, competitive positioning, and product marketing at May Mobility. This role sets product strategy and planning to capture market and industry opportunities while managing risk. It sits at the center of turning AV technology into products that cities and riders actually use.

A typical day

The job description does not describe a daily routine, so ask about it in interviews. Expect a mix of strategy work, cross-functional reviews with engineering and operations, and customer or city-partner conversations. Ask how much time is spent with the Ann Arbor team versus remote and at deployment sites.

Who May Mobility is looking for

• Has led product strategy and roadmaps at a senior level, ideally in autonomous vehicles, mobility, robotics, or a related hardware-and-software field.
• Can run competitive positioning and product marketing, not just engineering-side product management.
• Is comfortable making build-versus-buy and market-entry calls under technical and regulatory uncertainty.
• Can work with engineering, operations, and city or transit partners to turn MPDM capabilities into deployable products.

Tips for this application

• Name May Mobility's MPDM technology in your materials and explain how your product decisions would differ from companies using rule-based or modular AV stacks.
• Show one product you took from strategy through launch, with numbers: revenue, riders, deployments, or adoption.
• Connect your experience to public transit or city deployments, since May positions its vehicles as transit infrastructure, not just robotaxis.
• Address the remote setup directly: state how you would stay close to the Ann Arbor team and to deployment sites.
• Use the 500,000 rides figure as context and describe what you would do to grow deployments from there.

What to cover in your cover letter

Your track record leading product strategy and planning at a senior level. A concrete example of competitive positioning or product marketing you owned. How you have managed risk in a regulated or hardware-dependent market. Why AV transit specifically, and what you know about May Mobility's MPDM approach and its city deployments.

Research before applying

• Read how Multi-Policy Decision Making works and how it differs from other AV decision systems.
• Find May Mobility's current and past deployment cities and what each deployment was meant to prove.
• Check recent news on funding, partnerships, and any changes to leadership or product lines.
• Look at who May sells to (transit agencies, cities, operators) and what their buying process looks like.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• How you would set product strategy for MPDM-based vehicles against competitors using different AV approaches.
• How you would prioritize product investments across new markets, existing deployments, and platform work.
• How you would position May Mobility's vehicles to transit agencies and cities versus private ride-hail.
• How you would manage product risk when safety, regulation, and hardware timelines are outside your control.
• How you would structure product marketing for a company selling to both cities and riders.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Treating this as a standard SaaS product role and ignoring the hardware, safety, and regulatory constraints of AVs.
• Listing generic product management duties without showing strategy, positioning, or marketing ownership.
• Applying without any point of view on autonomous vehicle transit or May Mobility's specific approach.