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 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.
• 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.
• Work with industrial design, user experience, and engineering teams to conceptualize and implement interactive features.
• Define product features/enhancements and communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
• 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