Director of Product Management, Hardware

Therobotage; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik in Austin seeks a senior product leader to own hardware product management across Apollo, peripherals, and core components. You will bridge robotics engineering, manufacturing, commercialization, and customer-facing teams, deciding which hardware capabilities matter and how they sequence to move pilots toward scaled deployments.

This is not a narrow PM role; you will own the physical platform, shaping what Apollo can do in the field by translating customer needs and manufacturing

Qualifications

• Product leadership experience with complex hardware, robotics, or hardware/software systems.
• Ability to turn technical constraints and market signals into a coherent roadmap.
• Comfort working across engineering, operations, manufacturing, sales, and customers.
• Experience leading or building product teams in a high-ambiguity environment.

Responsibilities

• Define hardware product vision and roadmap for Apollo and related systems.
• Translate customer outcomes, manufacturing constraints, and field needs into product priorities.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing leaders on build, release, and scaling decisions.
• Build the product management function around Apptronik's hardware portfolio.

Skills

Product leadership

Hardware PM

Roadmapping

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic vision

Job description

What the role actually is

Apptronik is hiring a senior product leader to own hardware product management across Apollo, related peripherals, and core components. The role sits between robotics engineering, manufacturing, commercialization, and customer-facing teams.

This is not a narrow feature PM role. It is product ownership for the physical platform itself: deciding what hardware capabilities matter, how they sequence, and how they support the humanoid's path from pilots into scaled deployments.

What you would work on

• Define hardware product vision and roadmap for Apollo and related systems
• Translate customer outcomes, manufacturing constraints, and field needs into product priorities
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing leaders on build, release, and scaling decisions
• Build the product management function around Apptronik's hardware portfolio

What they are asking for

• Product leadership experience with complex hardware, robotics, or hardware/software systems
• Ability to turn technical constraints and market signals into a coherent roadmap
• Comfort working across engineering, operations, manufacturing, sales, and customers
• Experience leading or building product teams in a high-ambiguity environment

Why this one is worth a look

Humanoid robotics needs product leadership that treats the machine as a deployable product, not just a research platform. This role is interesting because it owns the hardware decisions that shape what Apollo can realistically do for customers in the field.