Senior Technical Product Manager - Simulation

Synthesia

$190K — $223K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in product management or engineering roles
  • Experience with simulation environments or developer tools
  • Familiarity with physics engines and robotic simulation
  • Strong skills in performance tracking and data analysis
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to make decisions under uncertainty prioritizing speed over perfection
  • User feedback-driven approach to product development

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the simulation platforms roadmap
  • Drive technical definition of robot fleet simulation environments
  • Define and prioritize use cases for realistic customer environment simulations
  • Ensure a highly configurable and intuitive user experience for developers
  • Align product development with customer's economic value
  • Synthesize user research and market feedback into actionable strategy
  • Define product features and communicate requirements to engineering teams
  • Support marketing initiatives to accelerate product adoption

Benefits

  • Flexible working conditions
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Access to innovative technology and tools
  • Collaborative and dynamic work environment
  • Direct impact on real-world applications and customer value
Full Job Description
JOB SUMMARY

As a Technical Product Manager - Simulation, 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 simulation platforms roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities.
  • Drive the technical definition of simulation environments focusing on perception, autonomy, and navigation for robot fleets.
  • Define and prioritize use cases for simulating realistic customer environments to enable thorough testing before real-world deployment.
  • Ensure that the simulation platform features a highly configurable and intuitive UX viable for developers to easily create, modify, and analyze test scenarios.
  • 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 in developing or managing simulation environments, simulation-in-the-loop testing frameworks, or developer tools.
  • Experience working with physics engines, robotic simulation engines, rendering pipelines, or digital twins for industrial environments.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience in performance tracking 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.
  • Nice to Have:
    • Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles.
    • Experience with Unity, Issac, or MuJoCo.
    • Experience generating synthetic data for perception, autonomy, and navigation stacks.
    • Background in developing UI/UX for complex technical or developer-facing tools.

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

The annual salary range is $190,000 - $223,000 base

*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.

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