Director, Go-To-Market Strategy

Zoox is hiring a Director, Go-To-Market Strategy in Foster City, United States. It pays $297k-$356k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Zoox.

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We are inventors, builders, and doers, passionate and purposeful in the work we do. We have a once-in-a-century opportunity to reinvent personal transportation, and we need your help.

In this role, you will be responsible for shaping, operationalizing, and continuously improving our go-to-market strategy for what could become a $10T global market for personal mobility. This is a dual-threat role: we need someone equally fluent in strategy and partnerships - able to go toe-to-toe with external counterparts to negotiate high-value deals, and just as capable of stepping back to set the strategic frame around the cities that we are serving, then expansions we are steering, and the unit economics we are driving. You will regularly engage with and present to senior leadership, including CEOs of partner organizations, so comfort operating in the room with top executives is essential, not optional.

This leader will partner closely with Finance, Strategy, Product, Marketing, and Operations to translate our GTM strategy into a focused set of priorities, integrated plans, and operational systems across our scaling new markets.

In this role, you will...

Drive Zoox's go-to-market playbook and develop frameworks for city selection, service planning, and fleet sizing, ensuring alignment with corporate cross-functional teams in service of the company's overall business objectives.
Collaborate with PnL owners, Corporate Strategy, and Finance on a comprehensive and tailored ride-hail commercial strategy that encompasses monetization strategies, models, pricing, and sales approaches to drive customer acquisition and retention.
Identify, negotiate, and secure partnerships with key commercial and product players across different sectors to enhance product offerings and expand market reach, serving as a primary point of contact with executive counterparts - including CEOs - at partner organizations.
Analyze various data-sets to understand mobility needs, demand profiles, and trip characteristics in cities.
Conduct and incorporate comprehensive industry market research to support strategic decision-making.
Build relationships with external organizations and experts to gather data-points and obtain expert opinions.
Research, synthesize, and present key strategic decisions and business issues with senior leadership.
Lead cross-functional teams to ensure successful project execution that aligns with strategic objectives.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree required
15+ years of experience in strategy, business development, and partnerships.
A demonstrated ability to operate as both dealmaker and strategist - you don't hand off partnerships to someone else once the strategy is set, and you don't hand off strategy once a deal is signed
7+ years of people management experience, including coaching, performance management, and team development within a high-growth or operationally complex organization
Demonstrated experience leading complex, end-to-end partnership negotiations and executions with measurable business impact
Track record of engaging directly with C-suite executives, including CEOs, at partner companies - comfortable leading high-stakes conversations and negotiations at that level
Proven experience leading and developing teams, with the ability to drive accountability, influence organizational direction, and foster strong cross-functional collaboration
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across highly cross-functional organizations
Strong strategic thinking and analytical capabilities, including experience evaluating trade-offs, developing business cases, and supporting high-stakes decision-making
Experience operating independently in fast-paced, ambiguous, and evolving environments
Passion for autonomous vehicles, mobility, and building next-generation transportation solutions
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills

Bonus Qualifications:

MBA
Experience working closely with product, engineering, and technical leadership teams
Strong financial modeling and deal analysis experience
Experience supporting city launches, marketplace operations, mobility platforms, or large-scale operational partnerships

How we rate this

Director, Go-To-Market Strategy at Zoox rates 34 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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