Product Manager – Traffic (Flow, Jams, Speed Profiles & Moderation)

About the role

Introduction Real-time traffic is at the heart of TomTom's mission to engineer the smartest, most useful map on the planet. Our live and historical traffic products — flow, jams, and speed profiles — power navigation, ADAS, and mobility decisions for the world's leading automotive OEMs, enterprises, and ride-hailing companies. As these customers move faster and expect richer, more accurate content, the way we generate, moderate, and deliver traffic data becomes a decisive competitive advantage.As Product Manager for Traffic Flow, Jams, and Speed Profiles, you will own a core part of TomTom's real-time traffic portfolio and set its multi-year roadmap, grounded in a deep understanding of traffic processing technology and customer needs. You will also own TomTom's traffic moderation tool — enabling the world's leading ride-hailing companies to submit event reports, such as closures — running its user operations and prioritizing its feature roadmap. What you'll do Own and deliver against Traffic Flow, Traffic Jams, and Speed Profiles — setting the roadmap, OKRs, and quality bar, and taking a leading role in product quality. Own and operate TomTom's traffic moderation tool, enabling the world's leading ride-hailing companies to submit event reports such as closures; run user operations and prioritize the tool's feature backlog. Bring a deep understanding of real-time traffic processing and jam detection, and use it to manage tradeoffs effectively. Focus on outcomes over outputs, tracking metrics such as ETT accuracy, jam detection quality, traffic coverage, and speed profile coverage. Lead brainstorms and drive product exploration through prototypes and wireframes. Gather deep customer insights from automotive OEMs, government agencies, and enterprise clients, separating high-value initiatives from nice-to-haves. Data acumen — able to analyze data from multiple sources, such as GPS traces, probes, STOs, camera observations, and traffic authorities, to drive decisions and assess tradeoffs. Build strong cross-functional relationships and steer the product team by removing blockers and escalating appropriately. Communicate effectively to internal teams (automotive, navigation, delivery) and external stakeholders using customer problem statements and business logic; deliver concise presentations and lead meetings from standups to stakeholder reviews. Maintain product strategy and vision, and contribute to broader Traffic discussions; formulate compelling value propositions tied to articulated problems and product metrics. Establish yourself as the subject-matter expert and go-to person for live and historical traffic data products, maintaining trust across product and business teams with visible, citable personal impact. What you'll need A minimum of 5 years' experience as a Product Manager, preferably in traffic, geospatial, mobility, or automotive domains. A bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field. Familiarity with real-time data processing, GPS/probe data, or traffic and mobility analytics (preferred). Experience or technical training in data science, analytics, or related disciplines. Strong ability to understand, articulate, and represent customer needs and requirements. Proven ability to coordinate people and technical resources across multiple teams. Effective time management and strong interpersonal communication skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including with senior technical and executive audiences. Ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong problem-solving skills and creative, structured thinking. What we offer A competitive compensation package, of course. Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning. Time to support life outside of wo

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