Director, Product Management - Physical AI

Arm; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 352,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package (including visa)

Job summary

Arm is seeking an experienced Product Management leader for its Physical AI portfolio, delivering solutions for robotics, automotive, and industrial compute. You will manage products through their lifecycle, shape roadmaps, and ensure regional teams are equipped to sell and integrate with Arm platforms.

The role involves market requirements, business planning, launch planning, and close collaboration with engineering and other business units to balance trade-offs across verticals.

Qualifications

• Product management experience across hardware/software lifecycles.
• Experience in automotive or robotics environments.
• Ability to translate market needs into engineering requirements and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Define product positioning, value propositions and roadmaps.
• Manage lifecycle from definition to release and maintenance.
• Translate market needs into engineering requirements and align features.
• Monitor schedules and negotiate trade-offs with engineering.
• Develop business cases and analyze industry trends.
• Plan and execute product launches including press/analyst briefings.
• Support sales opportunities and manage customer relationships.
• Create product presentations, white papers and benchmarks.
• Coordinate with regional teams to enable selling.
• Explore new markets and expand existing ones.

Skills

Product management experience

Automotive/robotics experience

Product lifecycle management

Education

Electrical engineering or computer science degree

Job description

Job Overview

Arm builds world-class CPU and systems IP for next-generation Physical AI ecosystems. We are seeking
an experienced and strategic Product Management leader for our Physical AI portfolio delivering solutions
for robotics, automotive and industrial compute.

You will be instrumental in the management of products throughout their lifecycle including market
requirements, business planning, product positioning, competitive industry trends and analysis, creation
and maintenance of marketing collateral, launch planning and execution, press and analyst briefings,
support of sales opportunities and definition of the product roadmap. You will also ensure regional
marketing, sales and FAE teams are equipped to sell effectively and that the products link well with other
software and platforms developed across Arm.

This far-reaching and high visibility role within Arm, with development and support offers many opportunitiesto work with other Arm groups, segment marketing specialists and third parties. The position provides anexcellent opportunity to interact directly with all the leading partners and with many of the industry players,enhancing your network. You will discuss and shape products well ahead of their introduction. You will alsodeal with other Business Units and Engineering to negotiate the trade-offs necessary for the product linesof responsibility to serve different verticals

Responsibilities

• Define product positioning, value propositions and roadmaps.


• Manage the product lifecycle from definition and approval through development, release and maintenance.


• Translate market and solution needs into engineering requirements, and agree features and schedules against business plans.


• Monitor technical schedules and negotiate feature trade-offs with engineering and other business units.


• Develop business cases and analyse competitive products, benchmarks and industry trends.


• Plan and execute product launches, including press and analyst briefings.


• Work with account managers to support sales opportunities and manage customer relationships.


• Develop product presentations, white papers, benchmarks and other marketing materials.


• Equip regional marketing, sales and field application engineering teams to sell products effectively, and coordinate with teams developing related software and platforms.


• Develop strategies for exploring new markets and expanding existing ones.

Required Skills and Experience

• A degree or equivalent qualification in electrical engineering or computer science, or equivalent practical experience.


• Product management experience, including delivering products and managing their lifecycle.


• Experience working in automotive or robotics environments.


• Experience developing new product categories through initial launch and product-market fit, with an understanding of system-level product lifecycles and operational considerations.

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience

• A Master of Business Degree or similar master's degree.


• Experience delivering products in robotics, humanoids, automotive hardware or platform architecture, Physical AI infrastructure, or critically important systems.


• Engineering knowledge of high-performance CPUs, GPUs, AI and image signal processors, and the semiconductor landscape.


• Knowledge of microprocessor hardware and software, heterogeneous system-on-chip design, interconnects, bus and power architectures, and memory bandwidth trade-offs.


• Communication, negotiation and leadership skills, including the ability to engage with people at different levels.


• Experience mentoring product management teams and setting strategic direction for product and engineering organizations.

In Return

You’ll have opportunities to shape products well before launch, work directly with partners and industry participants, and collaborate with teams across Arm. The role also offers scope to develop your network while working across automotive, robotics and industrial compute.

Additional Information

Please note that a relocation package (including visa sponsorship support) is available for this role, for candidates who require it.

Salary Range:

$260,000-$351,800 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

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Hybrid Working

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Equal Opportunities

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.