# Senior Manager, Driverless Operating Model at Waabi

- Company: Waabi
- What the company does: Transform your supply chain with Waabi’s AI-first autonomous trucking solution. Scale freight operations, improve safety, and boost efficiency. Learn more. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://waabi.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $175K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply by: 2026-12-12
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/waabi/b214ba2e-4592-4ccf-8bcd-6d074397c1bb?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waabi-senior-manager-driverless-operating-model/

## About the role

We are hiring a commercially minded, operationally pragmatic Senior Manager to define how driverless trucking works as a scalable commercial service. You will own the design and evolution of Waabi’s driverless operating model across the full Life of a Load, with a particular focus on our Driver-as-a-Service model, where customers own and operate their trucks while Waabi provides the autonomous Driver and supporting services. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrated experience designing, launching, or scaling complex operational services that bring together technology, physical assets, people, customers, and external partners
- Strong commercial judgment and a practical approach to problem-solving. You understand how to balance customer needs, operational feasibility, cost, and scalability
- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous, cross-functional problems, establish a clear direction, make decisions, and drive solutions through implementation
- Ability to work effectively across Product, Engineering, Operations, and commercial teams, influencing decisions without direct authority
- Comfortable working at both strategic and tactical levels, from defining a long-term operating model to working through the details of an individual customer workflow or operational exception
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex problems, articulate tradeoffs, and drive alignment

Tags: Commercial Products

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