Principal Product Manager, Robotics

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Zürich, CHE
Hybrid
Senior level
Robotics • Industrial • Automation
The Role
As Principal Product Manager, you'll define the roadmap for the ANYmal platform, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and drive product evolution in robotics for industrial use.
Summary Generated by Built In
ANYbotics is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to shaping the future of mobile robotics across multiple industries. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 200 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology.

We combine advanced robotics, autonomy, inspection payloads and data-driven software into a complete solution for industrial inspection and monitoring. Our technology is already delivering value in the field, and we are now scaling deployment and commercial adoption globally.

The Opportunity

As Principal Product Manager for Robot Platforms, you will own the roadmap for the core ANYmal platform across our robot families.

This is a senior individual contributor role at the centre of engineering, customer needs, deployment realities and commercial priorities. You will help shape how our robot platform evolves over time, turning advanced robotics technology into scalable industrial products that succeed in real customer environments.

You will work closely with R&D, Operations, Customer Success, Sales and Marketing, and act as a senior partner to the CPO on one of the company’s most important product areas.

The Market & Our Technology

ANYbotics brings robotics into industrial environments where safety, uptime and operational reliability matter most. Our customers are large asset operators and service providers using our solution for autonomous inspection and monitoring across sectors including chemicals, oil and gas, rail, wind energy, mining and construction.

Our offering combines the robot platform, inspection payloads, charging systems, autonomy and software into a complete inspection solution. We have proven both the technology and the customer value through long-term deployments and are now focused on scaling our products and platform globally.

Your Impact

  • Vision & Strategy: Define and drive the roadmap for the robot platform across our core robot families, with a clear view of customer needs, technical direction and long-term product strategy.

  • End-to-End Ownership: Lead the platform through key stages of its lifecycle, from early definition and prioritisation through launch, deployment, iteration and ongoing product evolution.

  • Cross-Functional Catalyst: Drive alignment and decision-making across R&D, Operations and Commercial teams, balancing technical possibilities with business priorities and field realities.

  • Go-to-Market Excellence: Partner with Commercial and Marketing teams to support product positioning, strategic customer conversations and successful launches.

  • Product Launch and Adoption: Help ensure new platform capabilities are introduced effectively and adopted successfully by customers in real operating environments.

  • Business Leadership: Build robust business cases to support investment decisions, prioritisation and resource allocation.

  • Ecosystem Development: Work with relevant hardware, software and manufacturing partners to support product delivery and long-term platform development.
  • Product Leadership & Methodology: Mentor Product Managers and help strengthen product management maturity across the company by bringing structure, clarity and sound product methodology to ambiguity and cross-functional decision-making.

Your profile

  • Experience: 8+ years of product management experience leading complex technology products spanning hardware and software.

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

  • Technical Depth: Strong technical fluency in robotics or adjacent systems, with the ability to engage credibly on topics such as sensing, compute, autonomy, system integration and field deployment.

  • Grit: Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, scaling deep-tech environment, with the judgement to handle ambiguity and make sound trade-offs.

  • Strategic Lifecycle Leadership: Proven track record of owning roadmap, priorities and product trade-offs from early definition through launch and ongoing evolution.

  • Customer-Centricity & Sales Enablement: Strong understanding of customer needs and market signals, with experience supporting strategic customer conversations and helping commercial teams succeed.

  • Business & Commercial Acumen: Able to build business cases, assess trade-offs and make product decisions that reflect both customer value and commercial reality.

  • Partnerships & Legal Fluency: Comfortable working with external partners in hardware, software or manufacturing environments, and able to navigate the practical commercial aspects of those relationships.

  • Executive Communication & Influence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical, commercial and executive stakeholders.
    Travel: Willing to travel 20 - 30% of the time.

Bonus Points

  • Industry Verticals: Experience in one or more relevant industrial domains such as oil and gas, power and utilities, chemicals, metals, mining, heavy industry or related asset-heavy environments.

  • Robotics Applications: Experience applying robotics, autonomous systems or similar technologies in real industrial or field-deployed settings.

  • Other Domain Expertise: Background in industrial inspection workflows, predictive maintenance, asset reliability or related operational problems.

  • Global Operations: Experience working with international customers, partners or contract manufacturers across multiple regions.
  • Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with relevant industrial or safety standards such as ATEX, IECEx, CE or ISO.

We offer you a very exciting and dynamic work environment, the opportunity to become part of a fast-growing company and an ambitious team that is on a mission to change the industrial inspection market, a chance to leverage your experience and bring in your own ideas, a fair market salary, an attractive employee stock ownership plan, and a job in the city of Zurich.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of product management experience leading complex technology products spanning hardware and software
  • Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
  • Strong technical fluency in robotics or adjacent systems
  • Proven track record of owning roadmap, priorities and product trade-offs
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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The Company
Zurich
196 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

ANYbotics is a Swiss robotics company pioneering the development of autonomous mobile robotics. Our walking robots move beyond conventional, purpose-built environments and solve customer problems in challenging infrastructure so far only accessible to humans. Founded in 2016 as a spin-off from the world-leading robotics labs at ETH Zurich. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 100 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology. Our customers include leading international energy, industrial processing, and construction companies. In 2020, ANYbotics raised CHF 20 m in a Series A financing round and won several prizes, including the Swiss Economic Forum 2020 award.

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