Boston Dynamics

Senior Staff Product Manager - Stretch

Boston Dynamics$135K — $157K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 7 years of experience as a product manager
  • Proven ability to translate customer needs into product requirements
  • Proficiency in market data analysis and ROI assessment
  • Ability to synthesize data into actionable insights
  • Experience in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience with complex technical systems and robotics is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Assess market needs to shape a product development roadmap
  • Engage with prospects to understand their needs and how our products can help
  • Review customer data to validate hypotheses and identify opportunities
  • Lead collaboration between customers and engineers for product development
  • Manage the product lifecycle from ideation to launch
  • Conduct gap and competitor analysis

Benefits

  • Onsite work in Waltham, MA
  • Opportunity to engage directly with strategic partners
  • Chance to work on cutting-edge robotic technology
  • Involvement in shaping innovative warehouse solutions
  • Potential for domestic and international travel opportunities
Full Job Description
In this role you will be a part of the extraordinary team at Boston Dynamics that is building Stretch- the autonomous mobile case handling solution aimed at tackling some of the most challenging and demanding tasks in the warehouse. Stretch helps make daily work safer, easier, and more productive.

You'll be an integral member of our warehouse 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 complex technical systems, robotics, and logistics is highly valued.

**Onsite in Waltham, MA

Day to day activities:
  • Assess market needs in conjunction with the technological frontier to shape a cohesive and realistic product development roadmap, maximizing value for our customers.
  • Work with prospects remotely and on-site to understand their needs, how they could use our products, and how we can help them succeed.
  • Review customer data and metrics to validate hypotheses, identify opportunities, and assess performance of Stretch.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration between customers and engineers to design, build, and deploy innovative applications of Stretch, leading tradeoff negotiation and prioritization decisions.
  • Provide product lifecycle management including customer engagement, stakeholder management, building business cases, product ideation, product requirement definition, prioritization, overseeing development and launch.
  • Conduct gap and competitor analysis.


Desired skills:
  • Minimum 7 years of experience as a product manager
  • Proven ability to vet and translate customer needs into product requirements for engineering
  • Proficiency in interpreting market data, KPIs, and financial models to assess market attractiveness and ROI potential
  • Exceptional ability to synthesize 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, documentation, and communication
  • Extensive experience with engaging counterparties from the loading dock to the C-Suite
  • Experience working on complex highly technical systems and products
  • Experience working with new technology introduction
  • Experience working within the robotics industry or in the warehousing industry is a plus


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

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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