Robotics Product Manager: Field Deployments & Roadmap Lead

Noble Machines, Inc; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off and other perks

Job summary

Noble Machines, Inc. seeks a hands-on Product Lead to define and drive the roadmap for Moby's capabilities and deployment tooling. You will partner with AI, software and hardware teams, and ensure field feedback translates into actionable requirements and metrics.

You will visit customer sites, set clear specs, and shape the deployment path from site assessment to handoff. The role requires onsite work in Sunnyvale and travel to industrial sites.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, or a mix of product and engineering, with direct ownership of a technical hardware/software product.
• Enough technical depth to hold your own with robotics, AI and hardware engineers, and to push back when a spec or estimate doesn't add up.
• A track record of writing product requirements, acceptance criteria and validation plans that teams act on.
• Experience defining product metrics and operational workflows for complex physical systems.
• Experience gathering requirements directly from customers or field teams and turning messy input into clear priorities.
• Comfort serving two groups at once, internal engineers and external customers, and making the trade‑offs between them explicit.
• Willingness to work onsite in Sunnyvale and travel to customer sites, including active industrial environments.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for robot capabilities and deployment tooling, from scoping and sequencing through release, and hold the sequence when priorities conflict.
• Turn field reality into requirements. Visit customer sites, observe operators and supervisors, and translate site conditions and edge cases into clear requirements and measurable performance targets.
• Write specs engineers build against without back-and-forth: product requirements, acceptance criteria and validation plans for new skills, autonomy features and operator interfaces.
• Work across AI, software and hardware. Make trade-offs between what the robot learns, what the hardware can support and what the customer needs on site.
• Build the deployment path. Define how a customer evaluates, pilots and rolls out a robot, from site assessment and setup through acceptance testing and handoff, and the internal tools that make it repeatable.
• Partner with field operations on onboarding, operator training and site documentation, so adoption doesn't depend on any one person.
• Define and track success metrics such as task success rate, interventions per hour, uptime, MTBF/MTTR and time from arrival to productive work, and use them to set priorities.
• Represent the product with customers and prospects during evaluations, and feed what you hear back into the roadmap.

Skills

Product management

Technical depth

Requirements writing

Metrics & workflows

Customer requirements gathering

Onsite work

Education

CS/Engineering/Robotics degree or equivalent

Job description

Noble Machines, Inc. seeks a hands-on Product Lead to define and drive the roadmap for Moby's capabilities and deployment tooling. You will partner with AI, software and hardware teams, and ensure field feedback translates into actionable requirements and metrics.

You will visit customer sites, set clear specs, and shape the deployment path from site assessment to handoff. The role requires onsite work in Sunnyvale and travel to industrial sites.