What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hardware Product Manager position at Pickle Robot Company?
Pickle is on the hunt for a dynamic and driven Hardware Product Manager to revolutionize the future of warehouse automation. This role is at the intersection of strategy, technology, and execution, requiring deep expertise in hardware product development and a passion for solving tough challenges in robotics. You’ll lead the development of innovative robotic systems while also driving the integration of third-party platforms into our products, ensuring seamless operation within the supply chain to enhance safety, speed, and efficiency at the loading dock.
What You’ll Accomplish:
Pickle Robot is a pioneer in Physical AI for supply chain applications. Today Pickle robots autonomously unload trucks, trailers, and import containers at human-scale or better performance. The alternative is manual work that is difficult, dirty, sometimes dangerous, and increasingly hard to staff at distribution centers around the globe. Pickle Robot is laser focused on automating truck unloading using generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, advanced sensors, and industrial robotics to deliver engineered products customers rely on. Pickle Robot Unload Systems work alongside people on loading docks to make the work safer, faster, and more efficient. Pickle robots are physical AI that unload trucks.
Pickle provides best-in-class benefits including health, dental, & vision insurance; unlimited vacation, along with all federal and state holidays; 401K contributions of 5% your salary, travel supplies, and other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive.
What You’ll Accomplish:
- Define Product Roadmaps: Collaborate with software product managers and engineering leads to define product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for Pickle’s hardware solutions
- Drive Product Development: Translate customer and market needs into detailed product requirements, ensuring alignment with technical capabilities and business goals
- Product Integration: Drive the seamless integration of third-party platforms into our robotic systems, ensuring compatibility, performance, and operational efficiency within supply chain environments
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, design, and manufacturing teams to prioritize and execute on key deliverables, ensuring successful product launches
- Market Research: Conduct competitive analysis and stay ahead of market trends to inform product development and ensure Pickle’s hardware solutions lead the industry
- Customer Engagement: Work closely with customers and end-users to gather insights, test prototypes, and iterate on solutions that address real-world challenges
- Lifecycle Management: Manage the full hardware product lifecycle, from concept to production to end-of-life planning
- Problem Solving: Anticipate and address technical and logistical challenges, ensuring products meet reliability, quality, and scalability requirements
- Experience: 5 years of hardware product management experience, preferably in robotics, automation, or a related field
- Technical Product Management Expertise: Proven experience leading product development for new hardware products, including prototyping, manufacturing, and quality assurance. Familiarity with warehouse automation robotics is strongly preferred
- Hardware Product Development: Experience working with electrical, firmware, and mechanical engineering teams to align technical roadmaps
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- Project Management: Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like JIRA, Asana, or similar platforms. PMP certification is a plus
- Analytical Skills: Ability to synthesize data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions. Familiarity with tools like Excel, Tableau, or other analytics platforms
- Customer-Centric: Deeply empathetic to customer needs, with a strong ability to translate feedback into actionable insights
- Collaborative: Thrives in a cross-functional environment, working with engineering, marketing, sales, and customers to drive results
- Location & Travel: You are willing and able to work in our Cambridge office at least 3x per week. You are also able to travel to customer warehouses as required
Pickle Robot is a pioneer in Physical AI for supply chain applications. Today Pickle robots autonomously unload trucks, trailers, and import containers at human-scale or better performance. The alternative is manual work that is difficult, dirty, sometimes dangerous, and increasingly hard to staff at distribution centers around the globe. Pickle Robot is laser focused on automating truck unloading using generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, advanced sensors, and industrial robotics to deliver engineered products customers rely on. Pickle Robot Unload Systems work alongside people on loading docks to make the work safer, faster, and more efficient. Pickle robots are physical AI that unload trucks.
Pickle provides best-in-class benefits including health, dental, & vision insurance; unlimited vacation, along with all federal and state holidays; 401K contributions of 5% your salary, travel supplies, and other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive.
