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Senior Product Manager

Palo Alto, CA, Remote. Posted 23 days ago

The role

This person will own the end-to-end customer experience across hardware and software. They will set quality standards, prioritize fixes, and drive design and engineering to polished launches.

What you will do

  • Own the end-to-end experience across hardware and software as one product
  • Set experience quality standards for each journey step with measurable targets
  • Identify gaps by visiting live deployments, running tests, and reviewing logs
  • Prioritize fixes by building a sequenced roadmap
  • Drive design and engineering to delivery by writing specs and running product reviews
  • Drive launch readiness for every release and customer go-live
  • Close the loop with customers by working with sales, deployment, and customer success
  • Represent the user across all five layers of the stack

Required qualifications

  • 4–8 years of product management experience, including several years on hardware-plus-software products
  • Early-stage startup experience (seed to Series B, under ~50 people)
  • Track record of taking products from working to polished
  • Product judgment for walk-up physical experiences using touch, voice, and large screens in public spaces
  • Experience with AI or conversational products and a clear method for measuring quality in probabilistic systems
  • Writes clear specs, acceptance criteria, and readiness checklists
  • Field orientation: has personally run site acceptance in stores, lobbies, or stadiums
  • Credibility with engineers and designers
  • Hands-on use of AI tools in your own work
  • Proactive
  • Ownership and a clear point of view on what the product should be
  • Able to work on-site in Palo Alto; lives in or will relocate to the SF Bay Area

Nice to have

  • Launch or quality ownership for a hardware-plus-software product deployed at scale in retail, hospitality, healthcare, or venues
  • Digital human, avatar, voice assistant, or conversational AI products
  • Hardware programs: build validation, manufacturing partners, installation, field service
  • End-to-end product ownership in a startup or small team

About the company

LiveX AI builds human-AI interfaces for physical spaces like stores, hotels, hospitals, airports, and stadiums. It is an early-stage startup in Palo Alto.