Product Manager, HRI (Human Robot Interaction)

The role

You will own the character and interface of the Memo home robot. You will manage personality, voice, movement, lighting, and app communication by working with designers and engineers.

What you will do

• Own Memo's character and create a character bible.
• Own the HRI roadmap across robot motion, audio, lighting, and app.
• Define and maintain the HRI trigger set for robot states and events.
• Lead animation as a product area by setting briefs and running reviews.
• Own Memo's voice and sound including conversational tone and sync with motion.
• Design interactions with people, kids, and pets.
• Gather HRI feedback from beta families and dogfooding to create requirements.
• Partner with behavior-stack and animation-pipeline engineers.
• Define and track HRI metrics like intent legibility and satisfaction.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years in product, interaction design, or character/experience design on products people talk to, live with, or play with.
• Fluency in character and personality design.
• Experience working across animation, sound, and UI on one coherent experience.
• Technical grounding to work with engineers on physical and computational expression.
• Strong user research instincts.
• Comfort with ambiguity at an early-stage company.

Nice to have

• Design background and portfolio
• Robotics or physical product HRI experience
• Game or film character animation direction
• Voice/conversational design
• Work with TTS and motion-audio sync

About the company

Sunday is developing personal robots to reclaim hours lost to repetitive tasks. They are focused on making generalized robots broadly accessible for households.