Senior Product Manager, Hardware Platform

The role

You will own the product direction for a humanoid robot platform. You will manage it as a complete product by turning customer outcomes, field data, and engineering constraints into a roadmap.

What you will do

• Own and maintain the platform roadmap including scope, sequencing, and priorities.
• Manage the deployed fleet as a product and track operational metrics.
• Turn field data and customer insights into requirements for engineering teams.
• Lead trade studies balancing performance, reliability, cost, serviceability, and schedule.
• Own change management for products in the field including retrofits and updates.
• Partner with supply chain and engineering on component lifecycle risks and make/buy decisions.
• Drive cost-down initiatives across the platform.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and build business cases for adoption.
• Work with program management to align deliverables to build cycles and milestones.
• Support product marketing initiatives and partner relationships.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing a hardware product across its full lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience managing tradeoffs associated with shipping physical products and hardware iteration cycles.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using fleet, field, or telemetry data.
• Experience evaluating new technologies for adoption.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.
• At least 4 years of experience in product management.
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen.
• Hearing and speech to communicate.

Nice to have

• Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles
• Experience managing platform transitions, carrying customers, learnings, and architecture from one product generation into the next.
• Familiarity with functional safety for hardware systems.

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.