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Senior Product Manager, Perception & World Understanding Skills

Agility Robotics· Product
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Hybrid (Fremont, CA)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Product Manager responsible for strategy and development of Digit's perception and learned capabilities, bridging AI/robotics technology with production-ready robot intelligence.

Responsibilities

  • Own the perception and world understanding capabilities roadmap: Define the product strategy, priorities, and roadmap for perception-enabled and learned robot capabilities required to support Digit's expanding application portfolio.
  • Define capability outcomes: Translate customer workflows and application requirements into clear requirements for perception, scene understanding, object understanding, learned behaviors, adaptation, motion planning and other AI-enabled robot capabilities.
  • Establish performance metrics: Define product-level metrics and evaluation criteria for perception and learned capabilities, including accuracy, robustness, generalization, latency, failure behavior, and operational performance.
  • Drive capability maturity: Establish expectations for progressing capabilities from research or prototype stages through validation, productization, and production deployment.
  • Bridge AI technology and product needs: Partner with AI Models & Tools Product and Engineering teams to translate product capability needs into requirements for underlying models, datasets, training systems, tooling, and infrastructure.
  • Drive generalisation: Identify when capabilities should move beyond narrow task-specific implementations toward reusable models and behaviors that work across objects, environments, customers, and applications.
  • Partner deeply with technical teams: Work with robotics, perception, machine learning, autonomy, simulation, and systems engineering teams to make product and technical trade-offs and ensure alignment with product outcomes.
  • Define evaluation strategy: Collaborate with Simulation, Systems, Engineering, and field teams to establish representative evaluation environments, test scenarios, datasets, and benchmarks for robot capability performance.
  • Manage cross-product dependencies: Coordinate requirements and roadmap dependencies across task skills, robot software, hardware, simulation, infrastructure, customer applications, and deployment systems.
  • Inform long-term product strategy: Shape Agility's longer-term robot intelligence strategy by identifying AI and robotics advances that unlock new product capabilities and customer value.
  • Communicate product direction: Articulate product priorities, technical trade-offs, capability maturity, and roadmap decisions to engineering leaders, executives, commercial teams, and other stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or related technical field. Advanced degree strongly preferred.
  • 5+ years of Product Management or equivalent product leadership experience in robotics, autonomous systems, AI/ML, computer vision, or other deeply technical product environments.
  • Strong understanding of machine learning, perception, robotics, autonomous systems, or related technical domains.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with highly technical engineering and research teams.
  • Experience translating ambiguous customer or product problems into measurable technical capability requirements.
  • Strong understanding of the distinction between technology performance and production product readiness.
  • Experience defining metrics, benchmarks, or evaluation frameworks for complex technical products.
  • Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and communicate their product implications to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate across multiple teams and influence without relying on direct authority.
  • Strong strategic thinking combined with a willingness to engage deeply in product execution.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Skills

Required:Product strategy and roadmappingRequirements gathering and translationPerformance metrics and evaluationCross-functional leadershipEvaluation strategy design

Benefits

  • 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
  • Equity: Company stock options.
  • Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
  • Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
  • Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Time Off: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays for exempt employees; 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 holidays for non-exempt employees.
  • On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
  • Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
  • Work Environment: Flexible work arrangements.
  • Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement.
  • Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
  • Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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