Director of Product Management, Software

The Robot Age; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik in Mountain View is seeking a software product leader for its Apollo humanoid platform. You will own product management across on-robot and off-robot software, including autonomy, simulation, platform software, cloud tools, and fleet management.

This head-of-product role will build the PM team, set roadmap discipline, connect customer needs to engineering and research work, and keep software decisions tied to deployment and field operation.

Qualifications

• Experience building and leading product management teams.
• Software product fluency from research through deployment and field operation.
• Background with autonomous robots or similarly complex software systems.
• Working understanding of autonomy, AI, perception, navigation, simulation, platforms, middleware, and edge deployment.
• Experience with cloud software products and cloud-to-edge fleet architectures.
• Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the software product management team.
• Own the software product vision and roadmap across autonomy, simulation, platforms, and cloud tools.
• Define commercial software strategy, including packaging, pricing enablement, and recurring-revenue features.
• Partner with UX leadership on fleet management tools for enterprise operators.
• Set evaluation, field-testing, and release-readiness criteria for deployed software.
• Align data collection strategy with machine learning and AI teams.

Skills

PM leadership

Autonomy software

AI/ML familiarity

Cloud platforms

Fleet architectures

Executive communication

Tools

Middleware

Job description

What the role actually is

Apptronik is hiring a software product leader for its Apollo humanoid platform. The role owns product management across on-robot and off-robot software, including autonomy, simulation, platform software, cloud tools, and fleet management.

It is a head‑of‑product style role: build the PM team, set roadmap discipline, connect customer needs to engineering and research work, and keep software decisions tied to deployment and field operation.

What you would work on

• Build and lead the software product management team
• Own the software product vision and roadmap across autonomy, simulation, platforms, and cloud tools
• Define commercial software strategy, including packaging, pricing enablement, and recurring‑revenue features
• Partner with UX leadership on fleet management tools for enterprise operators
• Set evaluation, field‑testing, and release‑readiness criteria for deployed software
• Align data collection strategy with machine learning and AI teams

What they are asking for

• Experience building and leading product management teams
• Software product fluency from research and definition through deployment and field operation
• Background with autonomous robots, autonomous vehicles, or similarly complex software systems
• Working understanding of autonomy, AI, perception, navigation, simulation, platforms, middleware, and edge deployment
• Experience with cloud software products and cloud‑to‑edge fleet architectures
• Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into business and executive decisions

Why this one is worth a look

This is one of the cleaner humanoid product leadership roles on the market because it sits where robot capability, operator UX, software deployment, and commercial packaging meet. The caveat is that it is senior and broad; the person in this seat will need to make product calls across research, field reliability, and customer‑facing tools rather than manage a single narrow surface.