About Burro
Burro is the leading robotics company in the world by number of robots working outdoors in the field with real customers. Our mission is to free people from tedious work and solve the critical labor shortages faced by farmers and others that work outdoors.
To accomplish our mission, we need a world-class, diverse team where everyone feels comfortable sharing their ideas. With this in mind, we strive to create a work environment where every employee can be themselves and express their perspective – this enables us to deliver the most creative and innovative solutions to problems our customers face.
Headquartered in Philadelphia with an office in central California, and backed by top Agtech and autonomy investors, including S2G, Catalyst, Translink, Cibus, FPrime, Toyota Ventures, FFVC, Xplorer, and Radicle, Burro was created to solve the labor shortages facing farmers using robotics.
Burros can be described as Disney's Wall-E for agriculture and work outdoors, in a 1.0 format. They function, today, as computer vision based autonomous ground vehicles for carrying, towing, and scouting, and are designed to lay the base for the fully autonomous future of work outdoors. We have a growing triple digit fleet deployed in paid commercial use within vineyards, nurseries, berries, and beyond, and demand for our product is accelerating, so we are growing our team.
About The Role
We are seeking a Product Manager to own our industrial business — the logistics, distribution, and material-handling environments where our robots increasingly work alongside people, equipment, and existing operations. The ideal candidate will have shipped physical products into industrial settings, is comfortable spending real time on customer sites, and can own a product area without being managed through it.
Responsibilities:
Own the industrial product line end to end (market definition, use cases, requirements, roadmap priorities, and the business case behind them) and be accountable for its commercial results: volume, mix, and profitable growth.
Drive the success of our active industrial deployments, working directly on-site with customers in live production environments against well-funded direct competitors.
Conduct customer and site discovery: walking yards, observing operations, talking with supervisors and operators, translating what you learn into requirements engineering can build.
Tell the commercial team where and how to sell: target segments, fit and no-fit criteria, the ROI case, and the proof points that close industrial deals.
Inform pricing, packaging, and positioning for the segment so we capture the value we create.
Own the product side of our integration strategy for this segment, so our robots work with the systems industrial customers already run.
Build competitive and win/loss insight for industrial: who we lose to, why, and what we change as a result.
Requirements:
5+ years in product management shipping physical products, such as robots, autonomous vehicles, industrial machinery, heavy equipment, or comparable, that were deployed commercially.
Direct experience in industrial environments: warehousing, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, material handling, construction, or similar.
Track record of owning a product area independently: setting direction, defending it, and living with the outcome.
Genuine comfort working in the field, on customer sites, for days at a time.
Strong written communication. Requirements, decision memos, and customer synthesis are how influence travels here.
Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.
Nice-To-Haves:
Experience with autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) or automated material handling
Familiarity with yard management, fleet management, or WMS/ERP integrations
Background in agriculture or outdoor equipment
Exposure to operational site and product safety
Conversational Spanish
Perks:
Competitive salary and benefits package (medical/dental/vision/life insurance)
Equity
401K Plan
Unlimited PTO
Paid parental leave
Skills Required
- 5+ years of product management experience shipping commercially deployed physical products such as robots, autonomous vehicles, industrial machinery, or heavy equipment
- Direct experience in industrial environments such as warehousing, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, material handling, or construction
- Track record of independently owning a product area, setting direction, defending decisions, and being accountable for outcomes
- Comfort working in the field and on customer sites for days at a time
- Strong written communication skills, including requirements, decision memos, and customer synthesis
- Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time
- Experience with autonomous mobile robots or automated material handling
- Familiarity with yard management, fleet management, or WMS/ERP integrations
- Background in agriculture or outdoor equipment
- Exposure to operational site and product safety
- Conversational Spanish
What We Do
Our mission is to solve the crushing labor problem faced by farmers today, by making collaborative robots a reality. To do this, we are starting first with Burro. Burro is a robotic platform that follows people and can autonomously run cargo around, relieving people of strenuous tasks which add little value, so that they can focus on more valuable work.
