Director of Product Hardware
Director of Product Hardware
- Location Austin
- Expertise Robotics
- Job Type Permanent
- Salary $ 300,000 per annum
About the Company
This is a human-centered robotics company building AI-powered robots designed to support people across every facet of life. Its flagship humanoid robot is built to work alongside people, starting in critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications planned in healthcare, the home, and beyond.The team operates at the cutting edge of applied AI, working across the full robotics stack to solve some of the hardest problems in the field. This role sits within the group bringing the company\'s humanoid platform to market at scale, tackling safety, commercialization, and mass production as the company moves from prototype to a deployed fleet.
The Role
The Director of Product Management, Hardware leads product management for all of the company\'s hardware systems, including robots, peripherals, and components. This person owns the hardware product vision, partnering closely with engineering and manufacturing leadership to develop and execute the hardware roadmap.In the first 12 months, this person will build and lead a team of product managers who translate market demand and customer use cases into executable roadmaps, and will be accountable for hardware products across their full lifecycle, from concept and new product introduction through production, sustaining, and end-of-life.
What You Will Do
- Build, lead, and develop the hardware product management team: hire, level, coach, and set the standard for how hardware products are managed.
- Partner with engineering leadership to develop and maintain the hardware roadmap, covering scope, sequencing, and priorities across robots, peripherals, and components.
- Own hardware product strategy, ensuring engineering deliverables add up to a coherent portfolio, and manage reuse, variants, and configuration strategy.
- Establish roadmap governance, prioritization frameworks, and metrics discipline across the team, holding product managers accountable to customer-connected, outcome-driven roadmaps.
- Drive total cost of ownership strategy, balancing unit COGS with field reliability, serviceability, and maintenance costs to maximize customer ROI.
- Define and track portfolio-level product and program health metrics, and represent hardware product status in executive reviews.
- Drive the full new product introduction lifecycle with hardware engineering and operations, from prototype through mass production, owning gate criteria and go or no-go decisions.
- Own the hardware product lifecycle beyond launch, including sustaining, continuous improvement, field issue resolution, spares, and end-of-life planning for a deployed fleet.
- Drive make-versus-buy decisions across systems and components, weighing cost, lead time, risk, IP, and supply continuity.
- Lead vendor and manufacturing engagement at the product level, working with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and internal manufacturing teams on requirements, feasibility, cost, quality, and supply.
- Own product cost, including BOM and COGS targets and the sourcing and inventory trade-offs behind them, to ensure competitive unit economics.
- Align with software product leadership across the hardware and software divide so systems are defined, sequenced, and integrated coherently.
- Partner with safety, quality, and compliance teams to ensure products meet applicable standards and that failure modes and field risks are addressed.
What the Company Is Looking For
- A proven track record building and leading product management teams.
- Deep hardware product and NPI fluency, from concept through end of life, including design for manufacturability, reliability and validation, and cost and BOM management.
- Experience with autonomous robots or similarly complex electromechanical systems, with fluency at the hardware and software co-development boundary.
- Hands-on experience working with vendors, suppliers, contract manufacturers, and internal manufacturing teams.
- A sharp eye for make-versus-buy decisions across systems and components.
- Strong analytical skills with metrics discipline for performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, able to translate technical insight into business impact for engineering and executive audiences.
- A bachelor\'s degree in mechanical, electrical, systems, or robotics engineering or a related field; an advanced degree or MBA is a plus.
- At least 10 years of experience in product management or engineering, including 5 or more years leading product managers, with a track record of shipping complex hardware products.
Why Join
- Own hardware product strategy for a humanoid platform that is moving from prototype into real commercial deployments, not a research project.
- Work at the intersection of AI, robotics, and manufacturing on the problems, safety, commercialization, and mass production, that will decide whether humanoid robots reach real-world scale.
- Build and shape a hardware product management function from a senior, high-visibility seat, partnering directly with engineering and manufacturing leadership.
- Join a team working across the full robotics stack, in one of the most active and well-funded corners of the robotics industry.
Additional Requirements
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Ability to spend time on lab and manufacturing floors, and to travel to supplier and manufacturing sites as needed.
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen; hearing and speech to communicate.
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