Product Manager, AI Adoption, Energy

What to Expect

Tesla Energy Manufacturing is deploying AI tools across our global production network - from cell manufacturing and battery pack assembly to warehousing and logistics. We are looking for a Product Manager, AI Adoption to own how those tools land, stick, and create measurable impact across Energy Manufacturing facilities - not unused launches.

In this role, you will own the adoption product: floor discovery, requirements, roadmap prioritization, phased rollouts, and outcome metrics across technicians, supervisors, business teams, and site leadership. You will partner closely with software engineers, manufacturing operations, and site teams to turn AI capabilities into reusable workflows. This role is for a product manager who has already shipped software with real users and wants to apply that craft on the factory floor. Expect approximately 50% travel to Tesla manufacturing sites.

What You'll Do

Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI adoption across Energy manufacturing sites, prioritizing ruthlessly against user impact and business outcomes

Translate floor and site pain points into clear product requirements; partner with engineering on scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs to ship high-quality solutions at speed

Lead cross-functional collaboration with engineering, production, quality, factory software, EHS, and supply chain to secure sponsorship, unblock launches, and earn the right to

Execute phased adoption programs by organizational layer (frontline technicians and supervisors, business functions, site leadership), and build reusable rollout and activation playbooks for each audience

Conduct user research on the production floor - operator interviews, shift walk-throughs, and structured feedback sessions - and close the loop so findings become shipped product or process changes

Design the activation experience: onboarding flows, in-product guidance, training content, and deployment playbooks that turn first-time users into consistent users

Build and maintain adoption and program-health metrics across sites (e.g., weekly active users by role, time-to-first-value, training completion to sustained usage, and before/after outcome KPIs tied to each deployment)

Communicate product strategy, release outcomes, site status, and adoption performance clearly to engineering teams and manufacturing leadership

What You'll Bring

Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Computer Science, Business, or equivalent experience

2–5 years of product management experience shipping software or internal tools with measurable user and/or business outcomes

Demonstrated ability to run discovery, write clear product requirements, prioritize a roadmap, and make tradeoff decisions with engineering

Comfort conducting user research and turning qualitative feedback - including from factory-floor operators - into structured insights and actionable requirements

Data fluency sufficient to define, read, and act on dashboards and KPIs; experience tying adoption metrics to operational outcomes is a plus

Clear written and verbal communication: you can write a crisp update for a senior leader and a practical how-to for a production technician, and you know the difference

Bias for action in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; ability to drive results with limited resources and shifting production priorities

Manufacturing, industrial operations, continuous improvement, or internal enterprise-tool adoption experience preferred

Hands-on experience with AI products or AI-assisted workflows is a plus; genuine interest in applying AI to manufacturing is required

Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50% of the time to Tesla manufacturing sites to support on-the-ground discovery and deployments

Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction

Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits

Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution

Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA

Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits

Company paid Basic Life, AD&D

Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)

Employee Assistance Program

Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays

Back-up childcare and parenting support resources

Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance

Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs

Tesla Babies program

Commuter benefits

Employee discounts and perks program

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.