Senior Product Manager, Hardware

What You Will Do

• Own product discovery, strategy, and delivery for a hardware product area from 0-1—from market insight and concept through to a shipped, supportable product.
• Build a sharp point of view on the market: who the customer is, what they're solving for today, where competitors fall short, and where the real opportunity is.
• Drive iterative testing loops - prototype, test against real-world conditions, learn, and revise quickly.
• Go deep on customer problems -talk to users, visit sites, understand how hardware actually gets used in the field.
• Define what we're building and why, with clear specs and requirements that engineers can run with.
• Work hands-on with mechanical, electrical, and firmware engineers to make trade-offs between cost, manufacturability, performance, and schedule.
• Collaborate with design and engineering to de-risk assumptions early, before they're expensive to fix.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in hardware product management, ideally with hands-on experience building robotics products.
• Experience taking a hardware product from 0-1 - from early concept and market validation through to a released product.
• You're comfortable running iterative test-and-learn cycles with physical prototypes, not just software.
• You've built and shipped things you're proud of - not just managed process.
• You think critically about customer and market problems and can break down ambiguity into structured decisions.
• You have design and engineering sense and care about craft - you notice when something is off and it bothers you.
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Mechanical engineering degree (or related discipline), with real hands-on design or build experience.
• Experience running structured tests on physical products - DOE, prototype validation, reliability or environmental testing.
• Familiarity with CAD tools (SolidWorks, Fusion 360), DFM/DFA and manufacturing processes (injection molding, sheet metal, CNC), and electromechanical systems, motors, or controls - enough to read a drawing, sanity-check tolerances (GD&T), and make informed trade-offs with engineers.
• Prior experience at a robotics, automation, or industrial equipment company, with a feel for how that market evaluates and buys products.
• Startup experience owning a product end-to-end across both hardware and software, without staying confined to one discipline.

Compensation and Benefits

• The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $225,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.

About the company

Standard Bots

Actively Hiring

Propel human productivity through the world’s most accessible robots11-50 Employees

New York City

11-50

Robotics

Robotics

Artificial Intelligence

Hardware + Software

Deep Learning

Founders

Evan Beard Founder

United States

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