How to apply for Director, Performance Analytics

About May Mobility

May Mobility builds autonomous electric vehicles and operates driverless transit shuttles in real communities, not just research demos. It has given over 500,000 autonomous rides since 2017 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company's Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology is its core approach to how AVs make decisions.

About the role

This director role leads the Performance Analytics function at May Mobility as the company expands autonomous transit services across the US. The analytics team likely measures safety, operational performance, and service reliability across real deployments. The role sits at the intersection of AV engineering, operations, and business growth.

A typical day

A typical day likely involves reviewing performance dashboards for active deployments, meeting with engineering or operations leads about data issues, and preparing metrics for executive or partner updates. You may also spend time on hiring, team planning, and defining new measures as May Mobility expands to new cities.

Who May Mobility is looking for

• Has led an analytics or data science function, ideally in a director or senior manager capacity.
• Has experience with safety-critical or operational data, such as AV, robotics, transit, logistics, or aerospace.
• Can translate performance metrics into decisions for engineering, operations, and executive teams.
• Is comfortable working remotely while coordinating with teams based in Ann Arbor and across US deployment sites.

Tips for this application

• In your resume, list specific metrics you owned (e.g., safety incident rates, uptime, latency, cost per mile) and how those metrics changed because of your work.
• Reference May Mobility's MPDM technology and its real deployments in your materials to show you understand the product, not just the industry.
• Note that the job description is truncated, so before applying, check May Mobility's careers page or LinkedIn for the full requirements and confirm what the Performance Analytics team owns.
• Highlight any experience with public transit, city partnerships, or regulated environments, since May Mobility operates in real communities.
• If you have worked on AV or robotics data, describe the data pipeline, tools, and scale (sensors, rides, miles) you managed.

What to cover in your cover letter

Explain why performance analytics matters for a company running driverless shuttles in real communities. Describe a time you built or scaled an analytics function from the ground up. Connect your metrics work to safety, operational reliability, or service expansion. Show that you understand May Mobility's specific context: real passengers, public transit gaps, and city-level deployments.

Research before applying

• Read May Mobility's materials on MPDM (Multi-Policy Decision Making) and how it differs from other AV approaches.
• Look up May Mobility's current deployment cities and partners, such as public transit agencies or municipalities.
• Find the full job description on May Mobility's careers page since the provided text is cut off.
• Check recent news or press releases about May Mobility's funding, expansions, or leadership changes.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• How would you define and track performance metrics for an autonomous shuttle service?
• Describe how you have built or restructured an analytics team during a growth phase.
• How do you handle conflicting priorities between engineering, operations, and executive stakeholders?
• What data quality or instrumentation challenges have you solved in a safety-critical environment?
• How would you measure the success of May Mobility's deployments in new cities?

Common mistakes to avoid

• Applying without reading the full job description, which may list specific tools, team size, or reporting structure not shown here.
• Submitting a generic analytics resume that does not mention AV, robotics, transit, or safety-critical data.
• Claiming you want to 'change the world' without connecting your skills to May Mobility's actual operations and metrics.