Staff Technical Product Manager
Third Wave Automation provides AI-powered shared-autonomy warehouse automation, combining autonomous forklifts, fleet management, and remote human assistance.
Funding history
About Third Wave Automation
Founded in 2018, Third Wave Automation develops a Shared Autonomy Platform for warehouse material handling that combines autonomous forklifts, intelligent fleet management, remote operation, and assistance; it is offered through a Robots-as-a-Service model.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage the product lifecycle for autonomous vehicle platforms. You will maintain vehicle requirements and engineering backlogs, guide technical trade-offs, lead field trials, translate feedback into engineering work, and address production uptime and field issues.
Requirements
- 8+ years of technical product management experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex hardware-software products
- Experience managing technical trade-offs and hardware-software integration challenges
- Backlog grooming and project management skills
- Ability to translate strategy into tactical execution
- Ability to adapt product requirements based on engineering findings
- Ability to translate field signals and customer feedback into prioritized technical requirements
Responsibilities
- Manage living requirements for core vehicle platforms
- Facilitate technical trade-offs during platform development
- Manage the engineering backlog and align execution with the product roadmap
- Lead vehicles through field trials
- Translate early-adopter signals into engineering tickets
- Oversee production uptime and resolve critical field issues
- Use deployed-fleet feedback to inform new features
- Translate customer feedback into prioritized technical requirements
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible working schedule
- Daily lunch
- Dinner for late evenings
- Snacks
- Equity