Senior Product Manager - TeleOperation

Senior Product Manager, Teleoperation
Location: Austin, TX (on-site)

A well-funded, venture-backed humanoid robotics company building AI-powered robots designed to work alongside people, starting in manufacturing and logistics, with future applications extending into healthcare and beyond. The company operates across the full robotics stack and is focused on bringing its humanoid platform to market at scale.

Job Summary
Own the teleoperation product: a first-rate interface for teleoperated data collection, serving both internal data collection needs and customers looking to improve fleet performance. This role draws on VR/XR experience and a human factors background to build interfaces genuinely suited to the operators who use them, maximizing data throughput and quality while keeping operators effective, comfortable, and safe.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the teleoperation roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities across the operator interface, data collection workflows, and customer fine-tuning workflows.
• Define requirements for the teleoperation interface, including VR/XR rigs, control mappings, haptic and visual feedback, and situational-awareness displays, in partnership with design and engineering.
• Apply human factors rigor to the operator experience: cognitive load, fatigue, ergonomics, latency tolerance, embodiment mismatch, motion sickness, learnability, and time-to-proficiency.
• Partner with data collection operations to maximize teleoperated data throughput and quality.
• Connect operator experience to training outcomes: define metrics tying interface quality to the quality of demonstrations used for robot learning.
• Define and own the customer-facing fine-tuning workflow for deployed robots, including permissioning, safety controls, and operation over real-world networks.
• Communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written documents, diagrams, and verbal communication.
• Prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs.
• Partner with UX, UX Research, and industrial design to validate and refine operator interfaces before deployment.
• Synthesize insights from operator feedback, usage data, customer meetings, and data-quality metrics into strategy.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience.
• Demonstrated experience shipping VR, XR, or immersive interface products to real users.
• Background in human factors, HCI, or applied ergonomics, with the ability to design for operators and measure their performance and comfort.
• Experience with teleoperation or remote operation of physical systems (robots, vehicles, drones, or similar).
• Strong analytical skills, with experience in performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, translating technical insight into business impact.
• Comfortable making decisions under uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.
• Strong advocate for operator and user feedback internally.
• Bachelor\'s in HCI or Engineering preferred.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with robot learning data pipelines: imitation learning, demonstration quality, and what makes teleoperated data useful for training.
• Experience working with customers in light and heavy industrial environments.
• Experience deploying products into industrial or warehouse environments.
• Experience with motion capture, hand tracking, or haptic input devices.
• Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles.