Apptronik
Senior Product Manager, Hardware Platform
Austin, TX · Senior
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About the role
- ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles
- 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
- Hearing and speech to communicate
- This is a direct hire.
Skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact.
Benefits
- 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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