Chief Product Officer

Kindredventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

PTO

Job summary

Dynamic Creatures is a robotics company designing interactive character robots for entertainment and hospitality brands. We are creating a new category of mobile characters that move naturally through guest environments, understand the context of an interaction and respond in real time.

Dynamic Creatures offers character-based experiences built on Boston Dynamics and other systems, as well as fully original robots created for a specific brand, environment or story.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product leadership, consumer or hardware-software.
• Track record of shipping category-defining products.
• Strong design sense, storytelling, and character.
• Experience scaling a product organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year product roadmap.
• Lead product, design, and user research functions.
• Define and instrument the metrics that matter.
• Partner with engineering on tradeoffs between scope, schedule, and quality.

Job description

Chief Product Officer

G&A

BOSTON, MA

FULL TIME

Manager -

CEO

Set and own the product vision for our family of robotic characters — from concept to shipped experience.

You’ll lead product strategy across hardware, software, and character design, partnering closely with engineering, animation, and design. You’ll define what we build, why, and for whom

Notes

This role involves significant travel, and iis in-person in Cambridge, MA when not travelling.

• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, PTO

No visa sponsorship available for this role — must be authorized to work in the U.S.

What You’ll Do

• Own the multi-year product roadmap
• Lead product, design, and user research functions
• Define and instrument the metrics that matter
• Partner with engineering on tradeoffs between scope, schedule, and quality

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years in product leadership, including a consumer or hardware-software product
• Track record of shipping category-defining products
• Strong taste in design, storytelling, and character
• Experience scaling a product organization

About Us

Dynamic Creatures is a robotics company designing and building interactive character robots for entertainment and hospitality brands. We are creating a new category of mobile characters that move naturally through guest environments, understand the context of an interaction and respond in real time. Dynamic Creatures offers character-based experiences built on Boston Dynamics and other systems, as well as fully original robots created for a specific brand, environment or story. As Boston Dynamics’ official entertainment and hospitality partner, the company works with entertainment companies to develop guest-facing character experiences designed to feel personal, attentive, and memorable. Dynamic Creatures was co-founded by CEO Marc Theermann, former chief strategy officer at Boston Dynamics and a former senior leader at Google, and chief technology officer Farbod Farshidian, a globally recognized robotics researcher and former research leader at the Robotics and AI Institute.