Staff Product Manager

As a Product Manager for Spot, you help design, build, and ship Boston Dynamics’ end-to-end robotic solutions, including software and hardware features, service offerings, and go-to-market plans. In this role, you will manage the enterprise hardware product initiatives for Spot and its ecosystem. This offers a rare opportunity to manage a highly successful product through its lifecycle evolution and gain broad, hands-on exposure while collaborating closely with engineering, design, sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams.

You’ll help drive component enhancements, manage EOLs, gather and refine requirements, contribute to roadmap planning, and support execution from concept through launch. Over time, you’ll have the opportunity to grow in responsibility in a way that aligns best with your strengths and interests. The successful Product Manager in this role is curious, organized, and eager to learn; ready to define the tactical initiatives that deliver against the strategic plan. This role sits at the intersection of many teams, balancing the needs of internal and external stakeholders to deliver the best results for our customers. This role is onsite in Waltham, MA, and will require occasional travel to remain closely aligned with market and customer needs.

Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics.  

Day to day activities: 

• Gather and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to identify product gaps, validate hypotheses, and inform requirements
• Rigorously prioritize features versus sustaining initiatives
• Work directly with customers (remotely and on-site) to understand workflows, pain points, and success criteria
• Work directly with supply chain and operations teams to creatively approach problems and develop sustainable solutions
• Support prioritization across competing initiatives by analyzing impact, effort, risk, and customer value
• Review product usage data and metrics to assess feature performance and inform iteration and pivot
• Support the development of business plans, pricing models, service plans, and other go-to-market components critical to scaling our quadruped solutions in partnership with senior PMs and GTM teams

Desired skills:

• Minimum 2 years of experience as a product manager or in a relevant industry or in a relevant academic program
• Proven ability to conduct comprehensive market research, including segmentation, sizing, and competitive landscape assessments
• Conceptual understanding of market dynamics and product-market fits 
• Exceptional ability to synthesize complex data sets into clear, actionable market insights and recommendations
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments typical of early-stage commercial companies
• High level of curiosity, drive and autonomy
• Excellent skills in collaboration, prioritization, documentation, and communication
• Experience in supply chain management, operations, hardware development, and/or product commercialization is strongly preferred
• Fluency in multiple languages is a plus

Travel:

• Occasional travel to customer sites and regions of interest
• Otherwise, this role is expected to be onsite

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.

The base pay range for this position is between $135,000 to $165,000 annually. Base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors including, but not limited to internal equity, job related knowledge, skills and experience. This range represents a good faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Boston Dynamics offers a generous Benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401(k), paid time off and a annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.