Product Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for robot capabilities and deployment tooling, from scoping and sequencing through release, and hold the sequence when priorities conflict.
• Turn field reality into requirements. Visit customer sites, observe operators and supervisors, and translate site conditions and edge cases into clear requirements and measurable performance targets (for example, task…
• Write specs engineers build against without back-and-forth : product requirements, acceptance criteria and validation plans for new skills, autonomy features and operator interfaces.
• Work across AI, software and hardware. Make trade-offs between what the robot learns, what the hardware can support and what the customer needs on site.
• Build the deployment path. Define how a customer evaluates, pilots and rolls out a robot, from site assessment and setup through acceptance testing and handoff, and the internal tools that make it repeatable.
• Partner with field operations on onboarding, operator training and site documentation, so adoption doesn't depend on any one person.
• Define and track success metrics such as task success rate, interventions per hour, uptime, MTBF/MTTR and time from arrival to productive work, and use them to set priorities.
• Represent the product with customers and prospects during evaluations, and feed what you hear back into the roadmap.

Job requirements

• 5+ years in product management, or a mix of product and engineering, with direct ownership of a technical hardware/software product.
• Enough technical depth to hold your own with robotics, AI and hardware engineers, and to push back when a spec or estimate doesn't add up.
• A track record of writing product requirements, acceptance criteria and validation plans that teams act on.
• Experience defining product metrics and operational workflows for complex physical systems.
• Experience gathering requirements directly from customers or field teams and turning messy input into clear priorities.
• Comfort serving two groups at once, internal engineers and external customers, and making the trade-offs between them explicit.
• Willingness to work onsite in Sunnyvale and travel to customer sites, including active industrial environments.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.