Staff Product Manager - Robot Capabilities
Walden Robotics · San Francisco, California, United States · $206K–$275K/yr
Robotics Engineering · 51-200 employees
About the role
The role involves owning the product roadmap for market verticals and prioritizing capability development based on customer needs and deployment timelines. You will partner with engineering, field operations, and customer success teams to translate real-world feedback into measurable business outcomes.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 7+ years of product management experience, specifically within robotics, hardware, or autonomous systems. Strong technical fluency, quantitative skills, and a proven track record of shipping complex hardware-dependent products are required.
Benefits
Full description
Position Summary:
As a Senior Product Manager, you will sit at the center of the feedback loop between what customers need and what our development team builds. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role that will help define the future for Walden and our customers.
Core Responsibilities:
- Own the product roadmap for one or more market verticals or product surfaces, prioritizing across customer sites and use cases
- Develop a deep, first-hand understanding of customer workflows, environments, and constraints, and translate them into clear requirements
- Partner with internal engineering teams to prioritize capability development against customer deployment timelines
- Partner with field operations and customer success to gain real-world feedback, and feed it back into the engineering roadmap
- Define customer-centric KPIs that translate business outcomes into measurable criteria
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of product management experience, ideally in robotics, hardware, or other physical/autonomous systems
- Strong technical fluency
- Strong quantitative instincts and experience using data to drive prioritization decisions
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous, real-world customer requirements
- Track record of shipping technically complex, hardware-dependent products
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to work fluently across engineering, field operations, and go-to-market teams
- Experience in industrial manufacturing, logistics, or other deskless-worker environments preferred
Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.
Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to hello@waldenrobotics.com.
Walden Robotics participates in E-Verify. If you receive an offer of employment from Walden, you will need to go through the E-Verify process of digital verification of your employment authorization documents as provided on the Form I-9. Participation in E-Verify does not limit your right to work and verification will only be completed after you become
