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We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.

If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.

This role is part of Cruise’ Commercial Operations and will work cross-functionally across internal and external commercial and technical teams. This person will have an outsized influence on the design, bring-up and operations of Cruise’ infrastructure in a given market or region. The role will be initially responsible for new market expansion and will oversee the growth in these markets through to mature operations.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Be overall responsible for operating infrastructure strategy and deployment in a market or region

• Drive site selection, with support from real estate team and external partners, to support deployment ramp plans for AV fleet

• Identify and develop opportunities for quick deployment and long-term infrastructure needs

• Oversee partner and internal delivery teams for bring-up of pipeline sites to ensure adherence to requirements, timelines and budget

• Support AV Operations to meet market goals with detailed infrastructure utilization plans

• Identify and propose ways to optimize infrastructure use

• Partner with Cruise Gov Affairs to identify and develop state, city and utility incentives, co-funding opportunities and provide input on land-use or zoning topics

• Track and analyze utilization of infrastructure, collaborate with commercial and technical teams to assess root cause and finding opportunities to optimize at each site

• Take ownership of infrastructure sites from initial evaluation through operational and pull together cross-functional teams to drive to solution when needed
   

What you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM, quantitative or analytical field, or equivalent work experience

• 5-7 years of work experience in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills

• Ability to drive towards decisions from ambiguous and sometimes conflicting data and information

Bonus points! 

• Complex operations experience in a fleet or transportation service

• Strong project management experience 

• Familiarity of land-use, permitting and construction bring-up process 

• Good grasp of utility tariffs and EV / EV charging technical and commercial knowledge

The salary range for this position is $125,900 - 185,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• One Medical membership
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401(k) match 
• Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays. 
• Paid parental, family care and medical leave
• Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise).
• Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks 
• CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.

• We’re Integrated
• Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

• We’re Funded
• GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price & Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizati