Product Manager

In this role you will be a part of the extraordinary team at Boston Dynamics that is building Stretch- the autonomous mobile case handling solution aimed at tackling some of the most challenging and demanding tasks in the warehouse. Stretch will help make daily work safer, easier, and more productive.  

You’ll be an integral member of our warehouse robotics product management team.  To thrive in this role, you must have a passion for customers.  You will conduct product discovery, focus on what matters most, work cross-functionally to drive product strategy, and help guide our development team on building and launching products that deliver value to our customers.

Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics. 

Day to day activities: 

• Provide product lifecycle management including stakeholder engagement/management, building business cases, product ideation, definition, prioritization, overseeing development and launch, and contribute to ongoing strategic roadmap management

• Work closely with engineering throughout the product development process; be a constant advocate for the customer, leverage “outside-in” approaches to provide continuous guidance for project teams, and lead tradeoff negotiation and prioritization discussions

• Lead cross-functional feature teams to ensure understanding, alignment, and successful execution of product roadmap for assigned product line

• Uncover and understand customer needs and translate them into powerful user stories that create smart requirements for our products, applications, and solutions

• Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of markets, competition, and users/customers through research, customer visits, win/loss analysis, and interviews

• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data to identify opportunities to add value to customers and then prioritize these to build a product roadmap

Desired skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline: formal product management training or an MBA is a plus 

• Minimum 5 years of combined experience working on hardware or software technology in a complex, or rapidly growing environment in a product, engineering, or strategic role

• Minimum 3 years of proven work experience in product management or as an associate product manager

• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle and driving successful business outcomes

• Metrics-driven: track record of leveraging strong analytical and quantitative skills and data to make assumptions and drive decisions

• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communications across technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience using and managing cross-functional collaboration and product development tools such as JIRA and experience with best practice agile scrum development and lean startup principles

• Experience in developing pricing models and implementing pricing policies.

• Subject matter expertise and experience in robotics, warehouse or industrial automation a strong plus

Travel:

• This position requires occasional domestic and international travel to customer and potential sites up to 25 percent.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.