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Senior Product Manager, Teleoperation

Apptronik· Product
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Austin, TXDirect hirePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Product Manager responsible for the teleoperation product, owning the roadmap and translating market needs into executable product development across hardware/software interfaces, VR/XR rigs, and data collection workflows to maximize throughput, quality, and operator safety.

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 — 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 collection throughput and quality.
  • Connect operator experience to training outcomes: define the metrics that tie 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.
  • Define product features/enhancements and communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
  • Prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs, and ensure product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers.
  • 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 a strategy that delivers business objectives.

Qualifications

  • Complex real-time operator interface or HMI experience under latency/safety constraints, or immersive interface products
  • Background in human factors, HCI, or applied ergonomics — you understand how to design interfaces suited to operators, and how to measure operator 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 communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact
  • Decision-making under uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection
  • Prioritize operator and user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams

Skills

Required:Real-time operator interface / HMI designHuman factors / HCI / ergonomicsTeleoperation / remote operation

Benefits

Last updated Aug 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Apptronik

One Platform for the Future of Work

Apptronik designs humanoid robotics platforms with mobility, manipulation, and human-centered interaction to support people in the workplace.

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