Sr. Product Manager, Ecosystem & Partnerships

Job Summary

FORT's platform ensures safe, secure, and dynamic control of autonomous machines, addressing safety challenges through solutions like the Wireless E-Stop and Safe Remote Control.

Responsibilities

• Roadmap Ownership: Define and execute the 12-month ecosystem roadmap, prioritizing partner integrations, platform extensibility, and developer experience investments.
• Partner Strategy: Build and maintain a structured view of the partner landscape, identifying where FORT can become the embedded standard and sequencing investments accordingly.
• Operator Interface Ecosystem: Own the product strategy for FORT's handheld operator interface ecosystem, ensuring the platform supports various deployment environments.
• Market Intelligence: Track shifts in the physical AI, robotics, and industrial automation landscape, and translate them into proactive roadmap decisions.
• Integration Architecture: Define integration specifications, API contracts, and data exchange standards for partners to embed FORT capabilities into their platforms.
• Developer & Integrator Enablement: Build the product scaffolding for OEMs, channel partners, and system integrators to deploy FORT solutions at scale.
• Cross-Platform Coordination: Manage cross-team dependencies and sequencing partner deliverables while maintaining internal release cadences.
• Quality & Validation: Partner with Engineering and QE to define integration acceptance criteria and validation protocols, ensuring partner integrations meet FORT's safety, reliability, and performance standards.
• Executive Communication: Present ecosystem strategy, partner portfolio status, and integration progress to executive leadership.
• Partner Governance: Maintain structured oversight of the partner portfolio, surface blockers early, and drive resolution across internal and external stakeholders.
• Feedback Integration: Monitor partner deployment outcomes and field data to identify platform gaps and feed market signals back into the product planning cycle.
• Go-to-Market Support: Partner with Marketing and Sales to develop ecosystem narratives, launch playbooks, and technical collateral.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years in Product Management, Technical Partnerships, or Business Development within robotics, industrial automation, IoT, or physical AI platforms.
• Platform Monetization: Ability to design and execute commercial models for embedded software/safety modules.
• Technical Fluency: Comfortable making decisions at the intersection of APIs, sensor integration, telemetry, edge computing, and AI inference.
• AI-First Mindset: Understanding of how AI platforms connect to physical machine control and expertise in integrating safety modules into third-party compute or silicon stacks.
• Technical Toolset: Proficiency in Monday.com and Jira for roadmap and project management; experience with API design review, partner integration documentation, and developer platform tooling.
• Leadership: Strong collaborative skills with the ability to drive alignment across Engineering, Sales, and executive leadership.
• Drive: Mission-aligned, energized by making the physical world safer and more productive through intelligent machine systems.