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You will report directly to the VP Product and work cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Customer Success, and Sales to decide what we build next and to make sure it ships, sells, and holds up in the field.\nThis is a senior individual contributor role at the centre of the company. Our robots run in airports, warehouses, hospitals, factories, and schools on five continents, for customers like UPS, DHL, CVG Airport, Toyota and many others.\nThis is a role for someone who is comfortable being the person who says no when needed, who reads a warranty report as carefully as a customer interview, and who has shipped physical products to real customers before.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn the platform roadmap\nOwn and publish the multi-quarter roadmap for Neo, Neo 2W, and Kas, with clear sequencing, trade-offs, and rationale that the whole company can read\nCollaborate with engineering management on release planning and escalation of issues. \nMaintain a single prioritized backlog across different platforms, balancing new capability, cost reduction, reliability, and serviceability\nPartner with the VP Product on where the platform strategy is heading over a 2-3 year horizon, and translate that into what we build this quarter\nDefine what we build\nWrite clear, testable product requirements that Engineering can act on without a translation layer\nRun discovery with facility managers, cleaning contractors, BSC operators, and channel partners\nTurn field data, customer feedback. command center data, service escalations, and warranty claims into prioritized product decisions\nDefine acceptance criteria and partner with QA and Engineering on what \"ready to ship\" means for a machine that runs unattended around people\nSupport early product explorations\nWork with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality through NPI of new efforts - DFM reviews, pilot builds, validation, and ramp\nDefine the commercial readiness of every launch: positioning, pricing inputs, SKU and configuration structure, ROI story, sales enablement, and service documentation\nPartner with Customer Success and Field Service on deployment readiness, spares strategy, and serviceability before launch, not after\nRun launch reviews and post-launch reviews, and be honest about what missed\nOwn the outcomes\nDefine and track the metrics that matter for each platform - present this alongside roadmap on Quarterly product review meetings.\nBuild the business cases for major investments and bring it to the executive team with the numbers, not the enthusiasm\nAct as the escalation point for platform product questions from Sales, Customer Success, and channel partners worldwide\nSupport Sales on strategic accounts and RFPs where expert knowledge and support is the deciding factor\nWhat We Are Looking For\nRequired\n5+ years in product management, with at least 3 years owning a physical product- robotics, industrial equipment, vehicles, medical devices, or comparable hardware with an embedded software stack\nDirect experience with a deployed installed base.You have owned a product after launch, lived with its failure modes, and made roadmap decisions based on what came back from the field\nTechnical fluency sufficient to hold your own with mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software engineers, and to make credible feasibility calls. You do not need to write production code\nDemonstrated ownership of the commercial side: pricing inputs, positioning, SKU structure, business cases, and sales enablement\nStrong written communication. You will write requirements, roadmaps, and business cases that people act on without a follow-up meeting\nComfortable making decisions with incomplete data and being accountable for them\nWilling to travel to customer sites and others, approximately 20-25%\nBased in or willing to relocate to the Waterloo Region; this role is on-site with our engineering and manufacturing teams\nPreferred\nExperience with autonomous mobile robots, AGVs/AMRs, AVs, or another autonomy-enabled physical product\nExperience with a hardware product sold alongside a recurring software or service contract\nBackground in B2B products sold to facilities, operations, logistics, or industrial buyers\nExperience with a channel or distribution sales model in addition to direct\nProven track record taking a hardware product through NPI to volume production - you have been in DFM reviews, pilot builds, and ramp\nAn engineering degree, or an engineering background earlier in your career\nFamiliarity with safety and compliance regimes for mobile machinery operating around people\nStrong working knowledge of AI tools such as Claude Cowork/Code and strong interest in AI for product management use cases\nThe Kind of Person Who Thrives Here\nWilling to take initiatives and be proactive - 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