JOB SUMMARYYou will own the product direction for our humanoid robot platform operating in the field today. You'll manage it as a complete product, turning customer outcomes, field data, and engineering constraints into a roadmap that maximizes the platform's value at every stage of its life.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES- Own and maintain the platform roadmap: scope, sequencing, and priorities across capability improvements, reliability, cost, and supportability.
- Manage the deployed fleet as a product: define and track the operational metrics that matter and drive the priorities they reveal.
- Turn field data, service feedback, and customer deployment insights into clearly written requirements, and communicate them to engineering teams through requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
- Lead trade studies balancing performance, reliability, cost, serviceability, and schedule; make and defend prioritization calls between sustaining investments and forward-looking capability work.
- Own change management for a product in the field: prioritize engineering changes, retrofit and upgrade programs, and software/hardware update rollouts with minimal customer disruption.
- Partner with supply chain and engineering on component lifecycle risks and drive make/buy and second-source decisions.
- Drive cost-down initiatives across the platform, connecting bill-of-materials and service-cost decisions to customer total cost of ownership and program economics.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and build the business case for when and how to adopt them.
- Work with program management to align platform deliverables to build cycles, deployment schedules, and program milestones.
- Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of our products.
SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS- Demonstrated experience managing a hardware product across its full lifecycle, from launch to end-of-life.
- Demonstrated experience managing the tradeoffs associated with shipping physical products and hardware iteration cycles.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using fleet, field, or telemetry data to drive product decisions and performance tracking.
- Experience evaluating new technologies for adoption: running trade studies, assessing maturity and risk, and building the case for (or against) technology insertion.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact.
- You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.
NICE TO HAVE- Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles
- Experience managing platform transitions, carrying customers, learnings, and architecture from one product generation into the next.
- Familiarity with functional safety for hardware systems.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE- At least 5 years of experience in product management.
- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical field
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.
