Product Manager, HRI (Human Robot Interaction)
Sunday Robotics is a Mountain View/Redwood City-based AI robotics company developing Memo, a helpful autonomous home robot for household tasks.
Funding history
About Sunday Robotics
The company develops Memo and the hardware, data-capture, and AI systems used to teach it household skills. Memo is not yet commercially available; Sunday is accepting applications for its 2026 Founding Family beta.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You'll be the first product manager dedicated to HRI, owning the robot as a character and an interface: personality, voice, movement, animations, lighting, sounds, and user-facing communication across robot and app. You'll work with animators, sound and voice designers, app design, behavior-stack engineers, and the consumer product team, set briefs, learn from beta families, and define HRI metrics.
Requirements
- 4+ years in product, interaction design, or character/experience design on consumer products
- Fluency in character and personality design
- Experience across animation, sound, and UI
- Technical grounding to work with engineers on robot capabilities
- Strong user research instincts
- Comfort with ambiguity at an early-stage company
Responsibilities
- Own the robot's character and turn the bio into a character bible
- Own the HRI roadmap across motion, audio, lighting, and app
- Define and maintain the HRI trigger set for robot states and events
- Lead animation as a product area, setting briefs and running reviews
- Own the robot's voice and sound
- Design how the robot interacts with people, kids, and pets
- Collect HRI feedback from beta families and turn it into requirements
- Partner with engineers on expressive capabilities and animation tooling
- Define and track HRI metrics