Product Manager – Traffic (Flow, Jams, Speed Profiles & Moderation)
Work Arrangement
Office Days per Week: 2 days
Key Skills
Job Description
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.
- 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.
- 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 work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.
Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.
Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.
Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.
Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.
Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!
Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location.
Meet your team
We’re the User Experience Design team. Fueled by user insights and data analytics, our mission is to create powerful, easy-to-use products that delight our customers, from millions of drivers to automotive customers who embed our technologies in their vehicles. We deliver the design specifications for all TomTom’s products. Joining us, you'll be part of a team that brings together design disciplines from user research to interaction, concept and visual design. Together, we'll continue to develop a map that people trust all around the world.
At TomTom...
You’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.
Work with a team of 3,600+ unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.
After you apply
Our recruitment team will work hard to give you a meaningful experience throughout your journey with us, no matter the outcome. Your application will be screened closely and you can rest assured that all follow-up actions will be thorough, from assessments and interviews all the way through onboarding. To find out more about our application process, check out our hiring FAQs.
TomTom is an equal opportunity employer
TomTom is where you can find your place in the world. Every day we welcome, nurture and celebrate differences. Why? Because your uniqueness is what makes you, you. No matter your culture or background, you’ll find your impact at TomTom. Research also shows that sometimes women and underrepresented communities can be hesitant to apply for positions unless they believe they meet 100% of the criteria. If you can relate to this, please know that we’d love to hear from you.
Core Responsibilities
You will own the product roadmap and quality for real-time traffic data products including flow, jams, and speed profiles. Additionally, you will manage the traffic moderation tool, prioritizing its feature backlog and overseeing user operations for key enterprise clients.
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience in product management, preferably within the traffic, geospatial, or automotive sectors. A bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field is required, along with strong data acumen and communication skills.
Benefits
- Personal development budget
- Paid learning days
- E-learning resources
- Enhanced parental leave
- Paid leave for caregiving
- Volunteer leave
- Work flexibility
- Home office setup budget
- Monthly home office allowance
- Work from abroad options
- Competitive holiday plan
- Birthday leave
- Annual hackathon
About TomTom
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Billions of data points. Millions of sources. Thousands of communities. We are the mapmaker bringing it all together to build the world’s smartest map. TomTom Orbis Maps are the new standard in mapmaking, co-created with the biggest names in tech. It’s a future-proof mapping platform set to drive innovation at a faster pace and on a bigger scale than ever before. Together with our world-leading maps, we provide location data and tech to drivers, carmakers, businesses and developers. Our maps, routing, real-time traffic, APIs and SDKs empower the dreamers and doers to keep the world moving. Headquartered in Amsterdam, TomTom is a global team of 3,700 people. We’ve been shaping the future of mobility for over 30 years – and our journey is just getting started.