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VP, Product

Odyssey

Palo Alto, CAFull-timeNo compensation foundPosted 3mo agoVerified open 4 days ago
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At a glance

Compensation
No compensation found
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

Odyssey is hiring a VP, Product. Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models, seeking a VP, Product to define and drive the product roadmap across experience, platform capabilities, and research. This role involves translating real-world usage into clear priorities and ensuring the company builds the right things in the right order. The ideal candidate will operate with significant scope and trust, partnering closely with leadership, research, and engineering.

Key focus areas include Drive execution across research, applied engineering, and platform teams, Translate user and product signals into insights that meaningfully inform research direction and prioritization, and Help shape how world models are productized and understood, grounded in real behavior rather than theory.

Successful candidates bring Owned And Shipped Technically Complex Products, Comfort Operating At Intersection Of Research, Engineering, Users, and Strong Program Management Instincts. Important skills include Product Judgment, Execution Discipline, Operating With Ambiguity, Systems Thinking, Accountability, and Driving Execution.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product JudgmentExecution DisciplineOperating With AmbiguitySystems ThinkingAccountabilityDriving ExecutionTranslating User Signals Into InsightsShaping Productization of World ModelsBringing Structure and Operating CadenceIdentifying Leverage PointsPartnering With Customers and DevelopersRunning Case Studies and Deep DivesFrontier Research ProblemsBuilding in Fresh DomainsOperating at Intersection of Research, Engineering, and UsersProgram ManagementDriving ClarityDriving MomentumDriving DeliveryForming and Defending Strong OpinionsReasoning From Ambiguous Signals to Clear Decisions

Qualifications

Owned and Shipped Technically Complex Products End-to-End

Full job description

Who we are Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond.

Odyssey’s founders previously pioneered the most complex application of physical AI: self-driving cars. They’ve now brought together a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve, who have made significant contributions to language models (DeepMind Gemini), video models (DeepMind Veo), world models (Wayve GAIA), and autonomous systems (Tesla FSD).

Odyssey has raised significant venture capital from GV, Amazon, AMD, EQT, NVIDIA, Natural Capital, In-Q-Tel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Garry Tan, Kyle Vogt, and researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines.

What we're looking for This role owns how Odyssey's technology becomes a coherent, powerful product in the hands of developers and partners. You will define and drive the roadmap across product experience, platform capabilities, research, and translate real-world usage into clear priorities. You will ensure the company is building the right things, in the right order.

You will operate with significant scope and trust, working directly with the leadership and partnering closely with research and engineering. This role requires strong product judgment, execution discipline, and comfort operating with ambiguity.

The right person thinks in systems, has strong opinions, and can hold both people and plans accountable.

What you'll do

  • Drive execution across research, applied engineering, and platform teams.

  • Translate user and product signals into insights that meaningfully inform research direction and prioritization.

  • Help shape how world models are productized and understood, grounded in real behavior rather than theory.

  • Bring structure and operating cadence to complex, cross-functional initiatives.

  • Identify leverage points where small product or system changes unlock outsized developer success.

  • Partner directly with customers and external developers; run case studies and deep dives into real applications.

Who you are

  • You feel passionate about frontier research problems and building in fresh domains like world models.

  • You’ve owned and shipped technically complex products end-to-end, and you’re accountable for outcomes.

  • You’re comfortable operating at the intersection of research, engineering, and real users.

  • You bring strong program management instincts and can drive clarity, momentum, and delivery.

  • You have sharp product judgment and are confident forming and defending strong opinions.

  • You can reason from messy, ambiguous signals to clear decisions and priorities.

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