Product Manager, Rhoda Platform

Rhoda AI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI in Mountain View is seeking a Product Manager to build and manage their innovative platform for integrating third-party hardware with advanced robotics. You will have significant ownership over the product's direction, working closely with partners to ensure their robots operate seamlessly with Rhoda's technologies.

The role emphasizes a blend of product management experience, technical fluency in hardware-software dynamics, and a proactive partner engagement approach. Join us to redefine robotics accessibility for developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, especially with platforms for physical systems.
• Ability to engage with both hardware and software teams effectively.
• Experience managing technical partnerships and understanding customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the product development for Rhoda's platform.
• Collaborate with partner engineering teams to gather and translate technical requirements.
• Develop and document partner-facing experiences and integration tools.

Skills

Product management experience in robotics or similar fields

Hardware-software fluency

Partner instincts

Business savvy

Excellent writing skills

Job description

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

Beyond our own robots, we’re opening Rhoda’s foundation models to third-party hardware makers. We’re looking for a Product Manager to own this platform end to end. This is a high-ownership, zero-to-one role: you’ll define the product, work directly with our first partners, and shape how robot makers around the world access generalist robot intelligence.

What You’ll Do

• Own the end-to-end product definition of Rhoda’s platform for third-party hardware partners: the APIs, tooling, and integration experience that let partner robots run on Rhoda’s models.

• Work deeply and directly with partner engineering teams to understand their hardware, their operational environments, and their customers, and translate what you learn into clear platform requirements and priorities.

• Define the technical and product boundaries between Rhoda’s systems and our partners’, deciding what we expose, what partners build, and what we support.

• Design the partner qualification and certification experience, and evolve it as the partner ecosystem grows.

• Own the partner-facing developer experience: documentation, reference implementations, and the tooling partners use to integrate, test, and deploy.

• Conduct partner and customer discovery that informs packaging, prioritization, and the platform roadmap.

• Write crisp, structured requirements and run reviews that keep engineering, research, and partners aligned.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of product management experience, including shipping a platform, API, or integration product for physical hardware systems – robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation, or comparable embedded domains.

• Hardware-software fluency: you can sit with a partner’s controls engineer and hold your own on kinematics, sensors, real-time constraints, and communication buses, then turn around and debate API ergonomics with a software team. Direct robotics experience strongly preferred.

• Partner instincts: you’ve run design-partner or OEM-partnership motions – small numbers of deep, technical relationships where the product and the partnership develop together.

• Business savvy: you’re comfortable in front of customers and partners, you ask the questions that reveal what they’d actually buy, and you can translate that into product and packaging recommendations.

• Boundary-drawing judgment: much of this job is deciding what we own versus what partners own. You’ve made these calls before and can defend them.

• Excellent writing: crisp requirements, structured reviews, and documentation that partner engineers can build from.

Nice to Have (But Not Required)

• Experience with embodied AI, robot foundation models, or the humanoid robotics landscape.

• Experience designing certification, qualification, or “works with” programs.

• Experience working with systems integrators or industrial automation ecosystems.

• Experience as an early or founding PM at a tech startup.

Why This Role

• Define a new business, not a feature: you’ll be the platform’s first and owning product manager from day one.

• Shape how the world’s robot makers access generalist robot intelligence.

• Work at the intersection of frontier AI models and real partner hardware, with strong executive commitment behind the platform.