Apptronik
Director of Product Management, Hardware
Austin, TX · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
Product ManagementProduct StrategyLogisticsRoboticsHardware DesignLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- You are accountable for hardware products across their full lifecycle, from concept and new product introduction through production, sustaining, and end-of-life.
- ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Establish roadmap governance, prioritization frameworks, and metrics discipline across the team, holding product managers accountable to customer-connected, outcome-driven roadmaps.
Responsibilities
- Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life.
- Drive make-versus-buy decisions across systems and components, weighing cost, lead time, risk, IP, and supply continuity.
- Lead vendor and manufacturing engagement at the product level, working with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and internal manufacturing teams on requirements, feasibility, cost, quality, and supply.
- Partner with safety, quality, and compliance teams to ensure products meet applicable standards and that failure modes and field risks are addressed.
- You build and lead a team of product managers who translate market demands and customer use cases into executable roadmaps.
- Build, lead, and develop the hardware product management team: hire, level, coach, and set the standards for how hardware products are managed.
- Partner with engineering leadership developing and maintaining the hardware roadmap: scope, sequencing, and priorities across robots, peripherals, and components.
- Own hardware product strategy, assuring engineering deliverables create a coherent portfolio, managing reuse, variants, and configuration strategy
- Drive the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) strategy, balancing unit COGS with field reliability, serviceability, and maintenance costs to maximize customer ROI.
- Drive the full new product introduction (NPI) lifecycle with hardware engineering and operations, from prototype through mass production, owning gate criteria and product go/no-go decisions.
Requirements
- Ability to spend time on lab and manufacturing floors, and to travel to supplier and manufacturing sites as needed.
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
- Experience with autonomous robots or similar complex electromechanical systems enabling fluency at the hardware/software co-development boundary.
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in mechanical, electrical, systems, or robotics engineering, or a related field
- advanced degree or MBA helpful.
- At least 10 years of experience in product management or engineering, including 5+ years leading product managers, with a track record of shipping complex hardware products.
Skills
- Strong analytical skills with metrics discipline for performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.
Benefits
- Define and track portfolio-level product and program health metrics, and represent hardware product status in executive reviews.
- You own the hardware product vision, partnering closely with engineering and manufacturing leadership to develop and execute the hardware roadmap.
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen; hearing and speech to communicate.
- 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.
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