Apptronik
Director of Product Management, Software
Mountain View, California, United States · Director
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About the role
- You are accountable for software products across their full lifecycle, from research and definition through deployment, field operation, and continuous improvement across a fleet.
- 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
- You'll build and lead a team of product managers who translate market demands and customer use cases into executable roadmaps.
- Build, lead, and develop the software product management team: hire, coach, and set the standards for how software products are managed.
- Partner with software engineering and research leadership to develop and maintain the software roadmap: scope, sequencing, and priorities across all levels of the stack.
- Define the commercial software strategy, including packaging, pricing enablement, and features that drive recurring revenue (SaaS/RaaS).
- Partner with user experience (UX) leadership to ensure fleet management software is intuitive for enterprise operators.
- Partner with engineering to create evaluation, field-testing, and release-readiness criteria, providing oversight on all software go/no-go decisions.
- Own the software product lifecycle beyond launch: over-the-air updates, fleet-wide observability and performance, field-issue resolution, and versioning and deprecation.
- Drive build-versus-buy and in-house-versus-partner decisions across software components and models, weighing capability, cost, time-to-market, and long-term control.
- Lead engagement with software and technology partners and vendors at the product level on requirements, feasibility, integration, and support.
- Partner with safety, quality, and compliance teams to ensure software meets applicable standards and that failure modes and field risks are addressed.
Requirements
- Experience with autonomous robots, autonomous vehicles, or similar complex software systems enabling fluency at the hardware/software co-development boundary.
- Experience delivering cloud-based software products and services, including the cloud-to-edge architecture that connects a deployed fleet to backend systems.
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, robotics, electrical 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 software products.
- Ability to spend time in labs and test environments, and to travel to deployment and customer sites as needed.
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
Skills
- Define and track portfolio-level product and program health metrics, and represent software product status in executive reviews.
- Align with hardware product leadership across the hardware/software divide so systems are defined, sequenced, and integrated coherently.
- Strong analytical skills with metrics discipline for performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.
Compensation
- The annual salary range for this position is - $315,000-$350,000
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.
- You own the software product vision, partnering closely with engineering and research leadership to develop and execute the software roadmap.
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