Head of Cognitive Robot Arms (human)

The role

You will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for robot arms from concept to series production. You will prioritize the product backlog and drive alignment across hardware, software, sales, and business development.

What you will do

• Own product vision, strategy, and roadmap for robot arms
• Define, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog
• Make trade-off decisions based on customer value, technical feasibility, and business impact
• Drive alignment across Hardware, Software, Sales and Business Development
• Analyze market trends, customer feedback, and competitive dynamics
• Co-lead product launches and define positioning and feature sets
• Drive safety, regulatory and certification requirements
• Document product decisions, assumptions, and trade-offs
• Report status, risks, and priorities to the CEO and C-level
• Represent the product at trade fairs and customer visits

Required qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, Industrial Engineering or a comparable qualification
• 5–8+ years as Product Owner or Product Manager
• Proven track record of taking hardware products through their full lifecycle to series production
• Solid understanding of cobot mechanics, kinematics, sensor systems and industrial communication standards (e.g. EtherCAT, Profinet, IO-Link)
• Understanding of safety, regulatory and certification requirements at product level
• Familiarity with Scrum or SAFe and tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Ability to manage several stakeholders and competing priorities
• Fluent English at a professional level

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, automation or complex mechatronic systems
• German

About the company

neura-robotics-gmbh