Product Manager

Burro; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

401K Plan

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Burro is seeking a Product Manager to own the industrial robotics business, including logistics, distribution, and material handling where robots operate with people and systems. The role requires shipping physical products and frequent field work on customer sites.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in PM, direct industrial experience, and can drive a product area independently with strong communication. Travel up to 30% is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management shipping physical products (robots, industrial equipment, or similar).
• Direct experience in industrial environments: warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, or material handling.
• Track record of owning a product area independently and delivering outcomes.
• Comfort working on customer sites for days at a time and communicating clearly in writing.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Own the industrial product line end to end, define market, use cases, requirements, and roadmap with business rationale.
• Drive on-site deployments and direct collaboration with customers in live production environments.
• Conduct site discovery and translate findings into actionable requirements.
• Guide pricing, packaging, and positioning for the segment to capture value.
• Own integration strategy with customers' existing systems and workflows.
• Build competitive insights and inform product adjustments based on win/loss data.

Skills

Product management

Field experience

Customer site experience

Requirements writing

Travel up to 30%

Job description

About Burro

Burro is the leading robotics company in the world by number of robots working outdoors in the field with real customers. Our mission is to free people from tedious work and solve the critical labor shortages faced by farmers and others that work outdoors.

To accomplish our mission, we need a world‑class, diverse team where everyone feels comfortable sharing their ideas. With this in mind, we strive to create a work environment where every employee can be themselves and express their perspective – this enables us to deliver the most creative and innovative solutions to problems our customers face.

Headquartered in Philadelphia with an office in central California, and backed by top Agtech and autonomy investors, including S2G, Catalyst, Translink, Cibus, FPrime, Toyota Ventures, FFVC, Xplorer, and Radicle, Burro was created to solve the labor shortages facing farmers using robotics.

Burros can be described as Disney’s Wall‑E for agriculture and work outdoors, in a 1.0 format. They function, today, as computer vision based autonomous ground vehicles for carrying, towing, and scouting, and are designed to lay the base for the fully autonomous future of work outdoors. We have a growing triple digit fleet deployed in paid commercial use within vineyards, nurseries, berries, and beyond, and demand for our product is accelerating, so we are growing our team.

About The Role

We are seeking a Product Manager to own our industrial business — the logistics, distribution, and material‑handling environments where our robots increasingly work alongside people, equipment, and existing operations. The ideal candidate will have shipped physical products into industrial settings, is comfortable spending real time on customer sites, and can own a product area without being managed through it.

Responsibilities:

• Own the industrial product line end to end (market definition, use cases, requirements, roadmap priorities, and the business case behind them) and be accountable for its commercial results: volume, mix, and profitable growth.

• Drive the success of our active industrial deployments, working directly on‑site with customers in live production environments against well‑funded direct competitors.

• Conduct customer and site discovery: walking yards, observing operations, talking with supervisors and operators, translating what you learn into requirements engineering can build.

• Tell the commercial team where and how to sell: target segments, fit and no‑fit criteria, the ROI case, and the proof points that close industrial deals.

• Inform pricing, packaging, and positioning for the segment so we capture the value we create.

• Own the product side of our integration strategy for this segment, so our robots work with the systems industrial customers already run.

• Build competitive and win/loss insight for industrial: who we lose to, why, and what we change as a result.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in product management shipping physical products, such as robots, autonomous vehicles, industrial machinery, heavy equipment, or comparable, that were deployed commercially.

• Direct experience in industrial environments: warehousing, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, material handling, construction, or similar.

• Track record of owning a product area independently: setting direction, defending it, and living with the outcome.

• Genuine comfort working in the field, on customer sites, for days at a time.

• Strong written communication. Requirements, decision memos, and customer synthesis are how influence travels here.

• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.

Nice-To-Haves:

• Experience with autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) or automated material handling

• Familiarity with yard management, fleet management, or WMS/ERP integrations

• Background in agriculture or outdoor equipment

• Exposure to operational site and product safety

• Conversational Spanish

Perks:

• Competitive salary and benefits package (medical/dental/vision/life insurance)

• Equity

• 401K Plan

• Unlimited PTO

• Paid parental leave

$130,000 - $150,000 a year