Chief Product Officer, Robotics & AI Platform

Formulate Robotics; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Executive ownership

Job summary

Formulate Robotics seeks a VP of Product to define and drive product strategy across Gen 3 robotics hardware, manufacturing software, AI optimization systems, and customer-facing workflows.

Sitting at the strategic center, you translate long-term vision into structured roadmaps, align engineering velocity with market demand, and mentor the product organization while partnering with Engineering, AI, Manufacturing, and Revenue teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product experience with 2+ years leading product teams.
• Experience owning complex, multidisciplinary platforms (hardware + software).
• Strong technical fluency; comfortable engaging deeply with engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to create structure in high-ambiguity environments.
• Systems thinker - understands product, economics, operations, and technology interactions.
• High agency, strong decision-making ability, and bias toward action.
• Excellent communication skills across executives, engineers, and operators.
• Actively leverages modern AI tools to accelerate research, synthesis, and product development.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overarching product vision and multi-year roadmap.
• Build and lead the product organization, including PMs and designers.
• Establish product operating cadence: planning cycles, prioritization frameworks, and release discipline.
• Ensure alignment between robotics hardware, manufacturing software, and AI intelligence layers.
• Translate company strategy into clear milestones and measurable KPIs.
• Drive disciplined tradeoff decisions across speed, scope, and long-term architecture.
• Define pricing, packaging, and value articulation in collaboration with Revenue leadership.
• Build strong feedback loops from customers and production environments into product direction.
• Maintain platform coherence as we scale distributed manufacturing nodes globally.

Skills

Product leadership

Roadmapping

Cross-functional

Technical fluency

Systems thinking

Decision making

Communication

AI tooling

Job description

Formulate Robotics seeks a VP of Product to define and drive product strategy across Gen 3 robotics hardware, manufacturing software, AI optimization systems, and customer-facing workflows.

Sitting at the strategic center, you translate long-term vision into structured roadmaps, align engineering velocity with market demand, and mentor the product organization while partnering with Engineering, AI, Manufacturing, and Revenue teams.