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Own the hardware humanoid platform roadmap and deployed fleet as a product. Translate field data and customer feedback into requirements, prioritize trade-offs between performance, reliability, cost, and serviceability, manage change/upgrades, drive cost-downs, evaluate new technologies, and coordinate with supply chain, engineering, and program management to maximize platform value and adoption.
Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond.
We operate at the cutting edge of Applied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems. You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better.
You will own the product direction for our humanoid robot platform operating in the field today. You'll manage it as a complete product, turning customer outcomes, field data, and engineering constraints into a roadmap that maximizes the platform's value at every stage of its life.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES- Own and maintain the platform roadmap: scope, sequencing, and priorities across capability improvements, reliability, cost, and supportability.
- Manage the deployed fleet as a product: define and track the operational metrics that matter and drive the priorities they reveal.
- Turn field data, service feedback, and customer deployment insights into clearly written requirements, and communicate them to engineering teams through requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
- Lead trade studies balancing performance, reliability, cost, serviceability, and schedule; make and defend prioritization calls between sustaining investments and forward-looking capability work.
- Own change management for a product in the field: prioritize engineering changes, retrofit and upgrade programs, and software/hardware update rollouts with minimal customer disruption.
- Partner with supply chain and engineering on component lifecycle risks and drive make/buy and second-source decisions.
- Drive cost-down initiatives across the platform, connecting bill-of-materials and service-cost decisions to customer total cost of ownership and program economics.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and build the business case for when and how to adopt them.
- Work with program management to align platform deliverables to build cycles, deployment schedules, and program milestones.
- Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of our products.
- Demonstrated experience managing a hardware product across its full lifecycle, from launch to end-of-life.
- Demonstrated experience managing the tradeoffs associated with shipping physical products and hardware iteration cycles.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using fleet, field, or telemetry data to drive product decisions and performance tracking.
- Experience evaluating new technologies for adoption: running trade studies, assessing maturity and risk, and building the case for (or against) technology insertion.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact.
- You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.
- 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.
- At least 5 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
*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.
Apptronik provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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