Lead Principal Product Manager - Robotics

What You’ll Do

• Define the multi-year vision, strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for robotics, perception, and embodied AI.

• Build deep relationships with strategic customers, understand their business and technical objectives, and translate those needs into repeatable product capabilities.

• Serve as the product counterpart to Applied Science and Engineering, defining target use cases, requirements, evaluation metrics, operating constraints, and production-readiness criteria.

• Own product areas such as multimodal perception, sensor fusion, spatial understanding, robot learning, navigation, manipulation, simulation, human-robot interaction, and fleet intelligence.

• Prioritize across research, platform capabilities, customer commitments, technical debt, and commercialization opportunities.

• Define success measures including task completion, intervention rate, safety, latency, reliability, generalization, deployment time, utilization, and cost per task.

• Drive the full product lifecycle from discovery and prototype through beta, launch, scaled deployment, and continuous improvement.

• Identify and mitigate risks across AI models, robotics software, hardware, cloud infrastructure, security, safety, and operations.

• Develop pricing, packaging, adoption, and business cases in partnership with Finance and go-to-market teams.

• Lead launches, customer enablement, product positioning, technical collateral, demonstrations, and executive presentations.

• Influence across teams without formal authority and mentor other product managers.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of product management experience.

• Demonstrated success delivering complex AI, robotics, autonomy, cloud, edge, or distributed-systems products.

• Experience partnering with scientists and engineers to productize probabilistic or nondeterministic systems.

• Strong knowledge of several robotics domains, such as perception, localization, planning, control, manipulation, simulation, or embodied foundation models.

• Experience defining product metrics, technical requirements, business cases, and production-readiness standards.

• Proven ability to lead exceptionally complex, cross-organizational initiatives independently.

• Strong customer, analytical, written, and executive-presentation skills.

This job involves travel on an as-needed basis.

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Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
–Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements.
–Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
–Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives.
–Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.
–Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
–Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues.
–Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drive the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.
Continuous Learning:
–Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization.
–Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions).
–Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices.
–Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams.
–Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.
Continuous Improvement:
–Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
–Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals.
–Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
Performance and Development:
–Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy.
–Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy..