Product Manager - Human Robot Interaction

Essential Duties and Responsibilities or Key Accountabilities

• Own and maintain the Human Robot Interaction roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities.
• Ensure that our robots and interfaces are intuitive, promoting positive experiences for both developers and end users.
• Partner with the UX team to design features to enhance multi-modal communication, including on-robot displays, conversational interfaces, and safety features.
• Prioritize predictable behaviors and legible intent improvements using robot motion, gaze, and signaling.
• Partner with engineering teams to drive the technical definition for software and hardware HRI systems.
• Partner with UX Research to validate and refine human robot interactions before real-world deployments.
• Define and prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs.
• Ensure that product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers.
• Synthesize insights from user research, customer meetings, usage data, and sales feedback into a strategy that delivers business objectives and customer benefits.
• Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of our products.

Skills and Requirements

• Strong understanding of interactive or conversational interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience with human robot interaction.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact.
• You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.
• You prioritize user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles.
• Experience using simulation tools to improve user experience.
• Experience designing UX for end users and developer-facing tools.
• Experience working with customers in light and heavy duty industrial environments.
• Experience with robotics and functional safety standards (ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066, ISO 13482, RIA 15.08).

Education and/or Experience

• 7+ years of experience in product management.

Physical Requirements

• 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.