Apptronik

Director of Product Management, Software

Mountain View, California, United States. Posted 4 months ago

The role

The Head of Product Management, Software leads product management for all on and off-robot software, including autonomy, simulation, software platforms, and cloud deployed tools. You will build and lead a team of product managers to develop and execute the software roadmap.

What you will do

  • Build, lead, and develop the software product management team
  • Partner with software engineering and research leadership to develop and maintain the software roadmap
  • Define the commercial software strategy, including packaging, pricing enablement, and features for recurring revenue
  • Partner with user experience leadership to ensure fleet management software is intuitive
  • Establish roadmap governance, prioritization frameworks, and metrics discipline
  • Define and track portfolio-level product and program health metrics
  • Partner with engineering to create evaluation, field-testing, and release-readiness criteria
  • Own the software product lifecycle including over-the-air updates and fleet-wide observability
  • Drive build-versus-buy and in-house-versus-partner decisions
  • Lead engagement with software and technology partners and vendors

Required qualifications

  • Proven track record building and leading product management teams
  • Deep software product fluency across the lifecycle
  • Experience with autonomous robots, autonomous vehicles, or similar complex software systems
  • Working understanding of the robot software stack: autonomy and AI, perception and navigation, simulation, platform and middleware, and edge deployment constraints
  • Experience delivering cloud-based software products and services
  • A keen eye for build-versus-buy and in-house-versus-partner decisions
  • Strong analytical skills with metrics discipline
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related field
  • At least 10 years of experience in product management or engineering
  • 5+ years leading product managers
  • Track record of shipping complex software products

Nice to have

  • advanced degree
  • MBA

About the company

Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity. Their flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate with people in industries such as manufacturing and logistics.

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