5+ years of product management experience in platform or API products for physical hardware systems like robotics or industrial automation.
Strong understanding of hardware-software integration, including kinematics and communication protocols.
Proven experience managing deep, technical partnerships for product development.
Ability to engage with customers to uncover needs and translate them into product features.
Experience in making boundary decisions between in-house and partner responsibilities, with justifications.
Exceptional writing skills for creating clear requirements and documentation.
Responsibilities
Own product definition for Rhoda's platform aimed at third-party hardware partners.
Collaborate with partner engineering teams to gather insights and define platform requirements.
Decide on product boundaries between Rhoda's and partners' systems.
Design and evolve the partner qualification and certification processes.
Manage the developer experience for partners, including documentation and integration tools.
Conduct discovery sessions with partners to inform product roadmap and packaging.
Write structured product requirements and manage reviews to align all stakeholders.
Benefits
Opportunity to shape a new business and platform from the ground up.
Impact on how global robot makers leverage advanced AI intelligence.
Support from executives committed to the success of the platform.
Full Job Description
Beyond our own robots, we're opening Rhoda's foundation models to third-party hardware makers. We're looking for a Product Manager to own this platform end to end. This is a high-ownership, zero-to-one role: you'll define the product, work directly with our first partners, and shape how robot makers around the world access generalist robot intelligence.
What You'll Do
Own the end-to-end product definition of Rhoda's platform for third-party hardware partners: the APIs, tooling, and integration experience that let partner robots run on Rhoda's models.
Work deeply and directly with partner engineering teams to understand their hardware, their operational environments, and their customers, and translate what you learn into clear platform requirements and priorities.
Define the technical and product boundaries between Rhoda's systems and our partners', deciding what we expose, what partners build, and what we support.
Design the partner qualification and certification experience, and evolve it as the partner ecosystem grows.
Own the partner-facing developer experience: documentation, reference implementations, and the tooling partners use to integrate, test, and deploy.
Conduct partner and customer discovery that informs packaging, prioritization, and the platform roadmap.
Write crisp, structured requirements and run reviews that keep engineering, research, and partners aligned.
What We're Looking For
5+ years of product management experience, including shipping a platform, API, or integration product for physical hardware systems - robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation, or comparable embedded domains.
Hardware-software fluency: you can sit with a partner's controls engineer and hold your own on kinematics, sensors, real-time constraints, and communication buses, then turn around and debate API ergonomics with a software team. Direct robotics experience strongly preferred.
Partner instincts: you've run design-partner or OEM-partnership motions - small numbers of deep, technical relationships where the product and the partnership develop together.
Business savvy: you're comfortable in front of customers and partners, you ask the questions that reveal what they'd actually buy, and you can translate that into product and packaging recommendations.
Boundary-drawing judgment: much of this job is deciding what we own versus what partners own. You've made these calls before and can defend them.
Excellent writing: crisp requirements, structured reviews, and documentation that partner engineers can build from.
Nice to Have (But Not Required)
Experience with embodied AI, robot foundation models, or the humanoid robotics landscape.
Experience designing certification, qualification, or "works with" programs.
Experience working with systems integrators or industrial automation ecosystems.
Experience as an early or founding PM at a tech startup.
Why This Role
Define a new business, not a feature: you'll be the platform's first and owning product manager from day one.
Shape how the world's robot makers access generalist robot intelligence.
Work at the intersection of frontier AI models and real partner hardware, with strong executive commitment behind the platform.
