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Salary: USD 142,000 - 214,000 / annual
Third Wave Automation is a Series C-funded startup applying machine learning to materials handling, delivering autonomous warehouse solutions including site-specific forklift navigation and infrastructure-free pallet handling. The company is scaling rapidly with proven market fit and core technology components.
As Staff Technical Product Manager, you will drive tactical execution of the company's core robotic vehicle platforms. You sit at the intersection of hardware and software, shepherding new vehicle requirements through engineering development and field trials. Your focus is ensuring autonomous warehouse solutions meet rigorous market needs while facilitating technical trade-offs necessary for long-term scaling.
Key responsibilities include:
• Vehicle Morphology & Requirements: Act as the "Shepherd" for living requirements for core trucks, facilitating critical trade-offs between engineering findings and product specifications during platform development.
• Tactical Roadmap Execution: Manage the engineering team backlog using technical project management tools to ensure high-velocity execution and alignment with product roadmap.
• Field Trial Leadership: Lead vehicles through field trials, translating early adopter signals into actionable engineering tickets before designs are finalized for mass production.
• Deployed Fleet Management: Oversee production uptime and resolve critical field issues for existing deployments while leveraging them as feedback sources for new features.
Required qualifications include 8+ years of technical product management experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex hardware-software integrated products. You need strong background managing complex technical trade-offs and working directly with engineering teams on hardware/software integration challenges. Exceptional skills in backlog grooming and project management are essential, with ability to translate high-level strategy into tactical execution. You must thrive in fast-paced environments where engineering findings require rapid pivots in product requirements, and communicate field signals and customer feedback clearly to development teams.
