Senior Product Manager, Hardware Platform
On-siteAustin, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Own the product direction for the humanoid robot platform, managing the roadmap from field data, customer outcomes, and engineering constraints into a prioritized sequence covering capability, reliability, cost, and supportability. Define operational metrics for the deployed fleet, translate service feedback and deployment insights into requirements documents and diagrams, and lead trade studies balancing performance, reliability, cost, and schedule. Drive change management for engineering changes, retrofit programs, and software/hardware rollouts with minimal disruption, while partnering with supply chain on component lifecycle risks and cost-down initiatives. Continuously evaluate emerging technologies to build business cases for adoption and align deliverables with program milestones. Support product marketing and partner relationships to accelerate market adoption.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- At least 5 years of experience in product management
- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical field
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
Desired Qualifications
- 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
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