Product Manager - Human Robot Interaction
Job Summary
As a Senior Product Manager - Human Robot Interaction, you will focus on driving the product vision, ensuring seamless execution across the complex hardware/software divide, and translating market demands into user-oriented, executable product roadmaps.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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.
Develop interaction frameworks that adapt to user expertise and permission levels, robot task, environmental context, and task requirements.
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.
Qualifications
Department: Product
Benefits: Not specified
Offices: HQ