Associate Product Manager: AI Robotics & Data Analytics

Rippling, Inc.; New South Wales; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Navigation in New South Wales, Australia, seeks an Associate Product Manager to bridge hardware/software engineering with market needs, translating field-testing, usage data, and market dynamics into actionable insights that support Senior Product Managers.

You will own data pipelines, drive data-backed hypotheses, model ROI, and contribute to global product strategies while collaborating across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to deliver prioritized feature requests and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a highly quantitative or technical field (e.g., Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science).
• 3+ years of experience in a technical role, preferably within a deep tech, robotics or high-reliability manufacturing organization.
• Comfortable working around highly technical product concepts, such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), GNSS, robotics, sensor fusion, or acoustics.
• Strong grasp of Agile methodologies and modern product management frameworks.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills; able to explain complex statistical models to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
• A curious mindset with an intrinsic drive to learn complex technical frameworks quickly.
• Exceptional attention to detail combined with a bias for action and decisive problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end data pipelines for product performance, analytics, and customer usage behavior.
• Support Product in providing data driven analytics from marketing channels.
• Partner with Senior Product Managers to lead product discovery phases using data-backed hypotheses and design thinking frameworks.
• Assist in modelling ROI and conduct financial/strategic planning for new product updates, evaluating target commercial opportunities globally.
• Perform competitive intelligence and market fit analysis within defense and commercial applications.
• Synthesize raw technical field-testing data and customer support escalations into prioritized feature requests for engineering teams.
• Drive accountability by establishing robust data-governance standards for how the product team measures success.
• Champion a "Progress over Perfection" mentality by delivering rapid prototypes of dashboards and insights, iteratively refining them alongside product shifts.

Skills

Data analytics

Product discovery

ROI modelling

Market analysis

Stakeholder communication

Agile methodologies

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a highly quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Advanced Navigation in New South Wales, Australia, seeks an Associate Product Manager to bridge hardware/software engineering with market needs, translating field-testing, usage data, and market dynamics into actionable insights that support Senior Product Managers.

You will own data pipelines, drive data-backed hypotheses, model ROI, and contribute to global product strategies while collaborating across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to deliver prioritized feature requests and