Senior Product Manager, Platform

The role

You will own a core area of the Viam platform by setting the roadmap and defining product and engineering decisions. You will partner with senior leadership on strategy and manage the developer experience including SDK ergonomics and APIs.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for your area of the platform from problem definition through launch and adoption
• Collaborate on product strategy regarding developer adoption and bottlenecks
• Develop a view on the direction of physical AI and robotics
• Work with engineering leads on decisions shaping platform architecture
• Take new capabilities from 0 to 1 through real customer deployments
• Own the developer experience including SDK ergonomics, API surface, docs, and onboarding
• Define success against developer adoption and second activations
• Bring customer and Forward Deployed engineer learnings back into the roadmap
• Build the product practice itself

Required qualifications

• Experience as a software engineer building and shipping production software used by real users
• 8+ years in product management since engineering experience
• Experience building developer-facing or infrastructure products like APIs, SDKs, or platforms
• Track record of taking products from ambiguity to production including migrations, deprecations, and breaking changes
• Technical credibility with engineers to run the SDK and read code
• Ability to do real market research and form a product strategy
• Comfort defining success metrics and using data to decide what to build next
• Ability to move quickly and decide with incomplete information
• Experience working with senior leadership
• Hands-on interest in hardware, IoT, embedded systems, or similar physical systems

Nice to have

• Prior robotics or IoT experience

Benefits

• 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans
• commuter benefits
• 25 days paid vacation
• generous holiday observances
• Free lunch every day that you are in the office
• One Medical Membership
• Citi Bike memberships
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Paid parental leave
• Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
• Yearly Learning and Development Budget

About the company

Viam is a ~100-person robotics engineering platform headquartered in New York City. It was founded by Eliot Horowitz, co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB.