Senior Product Manager, Hardware Platform

About the role

The product platform for a humanoid robot guides how it performs in the field. This role defines and manages that platform to support deployment in manufacturing and logistics. The work focuses on turning constraints and customer outcomes into clear direction for engineering.

Product managers decide what a team builds and why. They gather customer feedback, define requirements, and set priorities. Product work spans engineering, design, and business teams and ships products that solve real problems. The role combines research, writing, analysis, and decision making under uncertainty. Product work happens at the intersection of user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. Most product managers own a roadmap and are judged by the outcomes their teams ship.

Key facts

What you'll do

Fleet performance is tracked using operational metrics that drive ongoing priorities for a deployed product.

Component lifecycle risks are managed with supply chain and engineering, and make/buy and second-source choices are driven by those analyses.

Emerging technologies are evaluated, and business cases are built for when and how to adopt them within the platform.

Platform delivery timelines are aligned with program schedules, build cycles, and deployment milestones in partnership with program management.

Requirements

Experience managing a hardware product through its full lifecycle from launch to end-of-life is required.

Experience managing tradeoffs of shipping physical products and hardware iteration cycles is required.

Fleet, field, or telemetry data is used to drive product decisions and track performance.

Technology adoption evaluations include running trade studies, assessing maturity and risk, and building cases for or against technology insertion.

Communication clearly translates technical insights into business impact for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Decisions are made in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.

At least 5 years of experience in product management is required.

A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent technical field is required.

Nice to have

Experience with robotics or autonomous vehicles supports work with the Apollo platform.

Experience managing platform transitions and carrying customers, learnings, and architecture between product generations is valued.

Familiarity with functional safety for hardware systems supports reliable deployment.

Practical notes

This is a direct hire role.

Typical interview steps

Product interviews often include a product sense round, an analytical round, and a behavioral round. Candidates may be asked to design a feature, prioritize a backlog, or estimate a metric. Some loops include a case exercise. Strong candidates show structured thinking and customer empathy. Interviewers want to see how you prioritize when everything matters. Walking through your decision criteria out loud is a strong habit in product interviews.

Career growth

Product careers usually move from associate to product manager, then to senior, group, or director levels. Some people specialize in growth, platform, or enterprise products. Others move into general management. Success depends on shipped outcomes rather than shipped output. Product careers often reward generalists early and specialists later. Experience shipping measurable outcomes is the strongest signal for promotion.

Questions to ask

Worth asking in any interview: how the team measures success, who the role works with daily, what the onboarding looks like, and what the company is trying to achieve this year. Asking what past hires did well is a strong final question. Keep the list short and pick the questions that matter most to you.