JOB SUMMARYAs a Senior Product Manager - Human Robot Interaction, you will focus on driving the product vision, ensuring seamless execution across the complex hardware/software divide, and translating market demands into user oriented, executable product roadmaps.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES- Own and maintain the Human Robot Interaction roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities.
- Ensure that our robots and interfaces are intuitive, promoting positive experiences for both developers and end users.
- Partner with the UX team to design features to enhance multi-modal communication, including on-robot displays, conversational interfaces, and safety features.
- Prioritize predictable behaviors and legible intent improvements using robot motion, gaze, and signaling.
- Partner with engineering teams to drive the technical definition for software and hardware HRI systems.
- Partner with UX Research to validate and refine human robot interactions before real-world deployments.
- Develop interaction frameworks that adapt to user expertise and permission levels, robot task, environmental context, and task requirements.
- Define and prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs.
- Ensure that product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers.
- Synthesize insights from user research, customer meetings, usage data, and sales feedback into a strategy that delivers business objectives and customer benefits.
- Work with industrial design, user experience, and engineering teams to conceptualize and implement interactive features.
- Define product features/enhancements and communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
- Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of our products.
SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS- Strong understanding of interactive or conversational interfaces.
- Demonstrated experience with human robot interaction.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact.
- You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection
- You prioritize user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams.
- NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles.
- Experience using simulation tools to improve user experience.
- Experience designing UX for end users and developer-facing tools.
- Experience working with customers in light and heavy duty industrial environments
- Experience with robotics and functional safety standards (ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066, ISO 13482, RIA 15.08).
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE- 7+ years of experience in product management
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
- Hearing and speech to communicate
*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.
