Boston Dynamics

Principal Product Manager - Atlas Logistics Robotics

Boston Dynamics$177K — $221K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience as a product manager or similar role
  • Ability to create a long-term product vision with a clear roadmap
  • Proven experience translating customer processes into robotics requirements
  • Expertise in identifying market gaps and customer needs
  • Deep collaboration with software and hardware engineering teams
  • Ability to analyze market data and financial models
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic business plans and product roadmaps for customer solutions
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration for innovative application development
  • Engage with customers to understand needs and product applications
  • Conduct competitor analysis and document market needs
  • Translate market data into product development insights
  • Shape product development roadmap with market and tech assessments
  • Manage product lifecycle from ideation to launch

Benefits

  • Occasional domestic and international travel (up to 20%)
  • Onsite work expected in Waltham, MA
  • Office culture focused on innovation in logistics and robotics
  • Engagement with industry-leading clients and technologies
  • Support for professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
As a Product Manager for Atlas Logistics team, you are responsible for defining the frontier of humanoid robotics in the world. You aren't just managing a product; you are architecting the technology that enables us to deliver end-to-end solutions for our logistics customers - spanning hardware capabilities, advanced AI models, and sophisticated software. You will play a critical role in allowing Atlas to solve the most complex automation challenges for the world's largest logistics customers.

You'll be an integral member of our logistics robotics product management team. To thrive in this role, you must have a passion for customers. You will conduct product discovery, work cross-functionally to drive product strategy, and help guide our development team on building and launching products that deliver value to our customers.

This role requires a strong customer presence and the ability to work directly with strategic partners to understand workflows, pain points, and success criteria for large-scale automation deployments. Domain expertise in logistics, robotics, and manipulation is highly valued.

Day to day activities:
  • Develop a strategic business plan and roadmaps critical to providing full product solutions to our customers.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration between customers and engineers to design, build, and deploy innovative applications for Atlas in the logistics market.
  • Work with prospects remotely and on-site to understand their needs, how they could use our products, and how we can help them succeed.
  • Conduct gap and competitor analysis of our current and next gen solutions.
  • Document and distill the market and customer needs information into high-quality product artifacts to inform internal discussions and product development, as well as lead tradeoff negotiation and prioritization decisions.
  • Assess market needs in conjunction with the technological frontier to shape a cohesive and realistic product development roadmap, maximizing value for our customers.
  • Provide product lifecycle management including customer engagement, stakeholder management, building business cases, product ideation, definition, prioritization, overseeing development and launch.


Desired skills:
  • Minimum 7 years of experience as a product manager or in a relevant industry
  • Proven ability to create a long term product vision that addresses diverse market needs while maintaining a clear, executable roadmap for engineering
  • Proven ability to translate existing customer processes into requirements for end-to-end robotics solutions that solve a range of customer problems
  • Experience identifying market gaps, unmet customer needs, and high-potential entry points
  • Extensive experience working embedded and cross functionally with software and hardware engineering teams
  • Proficiency in interpreting market data, KPIs, and financial models to assess market attractiveness and ROI potential. Synthesizing this data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
  • Exceptional level of drive and autonomy
  • Excellent skills in stakeholder management and communication
  • Extensive experience with engaging counterparties from the warehouse floor to the C-Suite
  • Experience building products within the warehousing and fulfillment industry
  • Experience working with new technology introduction
  • Experience working within the robotics industry


Travel:
  • This position requires occasional domestic and international travel to customer and potential sites up to 20 percent.
  • Otherwise, this role is expected to be onsite in Waltham, MA
    We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.
    The salary or hourly pay range for this position will be clearly stated in the job posting as required by Massachusetts law. The base pay range for this position is between $177,207.64 to 221,509.55 annually. Base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors including, but not limited to internal equity, job related knowledge, skills and experience. This range represents a good faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting.
    Boston Dynamics will never ask you to divulge your personal financial or account information as part of its recruiting process.

About Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company is best known for the development of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed for the U.S. military. Boston Dynamics has also developed a number of other robots, including Spot, a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation, and Atlas, a humanoid robot designed for a variety of search and rescue tasks. In 2013, the company was acquired by Google X, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. In 2020, the company was acquired by Hyundai Motor Group. Boston Dynamics is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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1992

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