Apptronik

Director of Product Management, Software

Mountain View, California, United States · Director

Sponsorship not specified$315k-$350kDetected 1 day ago

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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.

Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life.
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.
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.

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.
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.

Strong analytical skills with metrics discipline for performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.

Define and track portfolio-level product and program health metrics, and represent software product status in executive reviews.
You own the software product vision, partnering closely with engineering and research leadership to develop and execute the software 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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