Senior Technical Product Manager - Sensing & Compute

Synthesia

$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in product management or engineering roles
  • Experience managing hardware/software products in edge compute or sensor fusion
  • Strong grasp of compute architectures in robotic or autonomous systems
  • Expertise in data pipelines for machine learning and autonomy
  • Analytical skills for performance tracking and data-driven decisions
  • Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
  • Ability to make decisions under uncertainty and prioritize user feedback

Responsibilities

  • Own and update the sensing and compute roadmap
  • Collaborate with teams to refine architectures for various workloads
  • Lead product requirements for safe perception
  • Define infrastructure needs for data collection
  • Prioritize use cases based on impact and feasibility
  • Align product development with customers' real-world value
  • Synthesize insights from user research into actionable strategy
  • Support marketing initiatives and partner relationships

Benefits

  • Direct hire position
  • No outside agency solicitations
Full Job Description
JOB SUMMARY

As a Senior Technical Product Manager - Sensing & Compute, 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 sensing and compute roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities.
  • Collaborate with development teams to refine architectures for perception, localization, sensor processing, AI/ML workloads, balancing performance with product constraints.
  • Lead product requirements for safe perception and redundancy.
  • Define infrastructure requirements for data collection and evaluation.
  • 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.
  • 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 your products.

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS
  • Demonstrated experience managing hardware/software products in edge compute, sensor fusion, or perception pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of compute architectures (e.g., GPUs, functional safety islands, safety MCUs) and their deployment in robotic or autonomous systems.
  • Subject matter expertise in defining data pipelines and infrastructure for machine learning and autonomy stacks.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience in performance tracking, system error budgets, and data-driven decision-making.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to translate technical insights into business impact.
  • You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection
  • You prioritize user feedback, promoting that voice to internal teams.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
  • 7+ years of experience in product management, or engineering roles.

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.

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