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Senior Product Manager, Hardware Platform

Apptronik· Product
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)direct hirePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Product Manager responsible for the humanoid robot platform (Apollo) in the field today, turning customer outcomes, field data, and engineering constraints into a roadmap to maximize platform value throughout its life cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the platform roadmap: scope, sequencing, and priorities across capability improvements, reliability, cost, and supportability.
  • Manage the deployed fleet as a product: define and track the operational metrics that matter and drive the priorities they reveal.
  • Turn field data, service feedback, and customer deployment insights into clearly written requirements, and communicate them to engineering teams through requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
  • Lead trade studies balancing performance, reliability, cost, serviceability, and schedule; make and defend prioritization calls between sustaining investments and forward-looking capability work.
  • Own change management for a product in the field: prioritize engineering changes, retrofit and upgrade programs, and software/hardware update rollouts with minimal customer disruption.
  • Partner with supply chain and engineering on component lifecycle risks and drive make/buy and second-source decisions.
  • Drive cost-down initiatives across the platform, connecting bill-of-materials and service-cost decisions to customer total cost of ownership and program economics.
  • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and build the business case for when and how to adopt them.
  • Work with program management to align platform deliverables to build cycles, deployment schedules, and program milestones.
  • Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of our products.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience managing a hardware product across its full lifecycle, from launch to end-of-life.
  • Demonstrated experience managing the tradeoffs associated with shipping physical products and hardware iteration cycles.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using fleet, field, or telemetry data to drive product decisions and performance tracking.
  • Experience evaluating new technologies for adoption: running trade studies, assessing maturity and risk, and building the case for (or against) technology insertion.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact.
  • You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.

Skills

Required:Hardware product lifecycle managementData-driven decision makingTrade studies and technology evaluationCommunication (verbal and written)Decision making under uncertainty
Last updated Aug 9, 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.

3PLApolloApollo for ManufacturingApollo for RetailApollo for WarehouseBuilt for the Real WorldForm That Fits the WorkGoods-to-Person
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