Senior Product Manager, Dock Hardware Platform

Skydio; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydio is seeking a senior product manager to lead the dock and drone ecosystem around its X10 platform. You will own the product strategy and delivery across hardware and software, aiming to make autonomous drone systems easier to deploy, maintain, and improve over time.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, computer vision, AI/ML, design, operations, and GTM teams to drive roadmaps, requirements, launches, and reliability across current and future dock products.

Qualifications

• Experience defining and delivering hardware products with connected software experiences.
• Strong instinct for customer discovery and direct customer learning.
• Interest in reliability, system scaling, data analysis, and hands-on product details.
• Experience with commercial, public safety, or defense hardware markets, or a clear interest in them.

Responsibilities

• Build product strategy and requirements from customer discovery, field feedback, ride-alongs, and analytics.
• Own roadmaps and product requirement documents for current and future dock products.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, computer vision, AI, machine learning, design, operations, and GTM teams.
• Drive launch planning, positioning, customer enablement, and reliability improvements.

Skills

Hardware product definition

Software-enabled devices

Customer discovery

Data analysis

Reliability focus

System scaling

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

What the role actually is

Skydio is hiring a senior PM for the dock and drone ecosystem around its X10 platform. The role owns product strategy and delivery across hardware and software, with a focus on making autonomous drone systems easier to deploy, maintain, and improve over time.

What you would work on

• Build product strategy and requirements from customer discovery, field feedback, ride-alongs, and analytics.
• Own roadmaps and product requirement documents for current and future dock products.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, computer vision, AI, machine learning, design, operations, and GTM teams.
• Drive launch planning, positioning, customer enablement, and reliability improvements.

What they are asking for

• Experience defining and delivering hardware products with connected software experiences.
• A strong instinct for customer discovery and direct customer learning.
• Interest in reliability, system scaling, data analysis, and hands‑on product details.
• Experience with commercial, public safety, or defense hardware markets, or a clear interest in them.

Why this one is worth a look

Docked drones are where autonomy becomes infrastructure instead of a single device sale. This role sits at that intersection: fleet reliability, physical deployment, user workflows, and the product decisions that make autonomous drone operations repeatable.