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

<br><strong>Introduction</strong><br><div>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.<br aria-hidden="true">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.</div><br><strong>What you'll do</strong><br><div> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Bring a deep understanding of real-time traffic processing and jam detection, and use it to manage tradeoffs effectively.</li> <li>Focus on outcomes over outputs, tracking metrics such as ETT accuracy, jam detection quality, traffic coverage, and speed profile coverage.</li> <li>Lead brainstorms and drive product exploration through prototypes and wireframes.</li> <li>Gather deep customer insights from automotive OEMs, government agencies, and enterprise clients, separating high-value initiatives from nice-to-haves.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Build strong cross-functional relationships and steer the product team by removing blockers and escalating appropriately.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Maintain product strategy and vision, and contribute to broader Traffic discussions; formulate compelling value propositions tied to articulated problems and product metrics.</li> <li>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.</li> </div><br><strong>What you'll need</strong><br><div> <li>A minimum of 5 years' experience as a Product Manager, preferably in traffic, geospatial, mobility, or automotive domains.</li> <li>A bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.</li> <li>Familiarity with real-time data processing, GPS/probe data, or traffic and mobility analytics (preferred).</li> <li>Experience or technical training in data science, analytics, or related disciplines.</li> <li>Strong ability to understand, articulate, and represent customer needs and requirements.</li> <li>Proven ability to coordinate people and technical resources across multiple teams.</li> <li>Effective time management and strong interpersona