Director, Product Management

Posted 4 months ago• Business & Finance• Product/Design

Job Description

Your New Role and Team

Sanctuary AI, a world leader in building AI-based control systems for humanoid robots, is looking for a Director of Product Management to join our team. This role will lead the product management organization and help shape how our products evolve from early concept to real-world deployment. We are looking for a leader who understands the realities of advanced robotics, automation, and intelligent systems, and who can bring clarity, structure, and direction to a fast-moving engineering environment.

Our Success Criteria

Partner with leadership to define and execute a long term product strategy and roadmap

Lead, mentor, and support our product management organization, building a high performance and accountable culture

Bring structure to ambiguity and create clear processes that help cross functional teams move quickly

Work closely with engineering, research, and operations to translate requirements into actionable plans

Communicate product vision, priorities, and progress to senior stakeholders

Oversee the end to end product lifecycle, ensuring alignment between product decisions and engineering feasibility

Collaborate deeply with development teams to understand constraints, tradeoffs, and technical direction

Ensure products meet performance expectations across software, controls, mechanical systems, and user experience

Define and track key metrics that measure product success and guide iteration

Drive continuous improvement through data, market insight, and customer feedback

Work cross functionally with engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and customer success teams to bring products to market

The role involves international travel, including to U.S. customer locations, and candidates must be able to fulfill these travel obligations without limitation.

Experience and Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience in technology development

A minimum of 7 plus years leading cross functional teams building intelligent hardware systems such as humanoid robots, industrial automation systems, automated machinery, or sensor driven platforms

Must have strong exposure to embedded machine learning, real time AI systems, or intelligent control software

Solid understanding of product development processes and the ability to collaborate closely with engineering development teams

Direct industry experience in robotics, industrial automation, or automated machinery is required

Hands on knowledge of manufacturing considerations, including build readiness, production constraints, and scaling challenges

Strong leadership ability with experience guiding teams toward clear strategic goals

Excellent communication and negotiation skills, able to work with technical and non technical partners

Strategic mindset with strong analytical problem solving capabilities

Skills

Deep understanding of how complex mechatronic or robotic systems are developed, validated, and scaled

Ability to partner closely with engineering teams across software, AI, controls, and hardware

Strong technical fluency and the ability to translate between engineering detail and business direction

Ability to define product strategy in environments with high ambiguity and rapid iteration

Innovative mindset with an applied research orientation

Strong collaboration abilities, influencing without authority, and aligning diverse stakeholders

Traits

Positive attitude and willingness to do whatever is required to move the mission forward

Empathetic listener who can navigate conflict with clarity

Bias for action, communication, and proactive leadership

Self driven and comfortable solving problems independently

Mission oriented and passionate about bringing human like intelligence to machines

Working at Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.

Compensation and Benefits

Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.

About Sanctuary AI

Founded in 2018, Sanctuary builds humanoid robots and a novel control system for them that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robot foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and proprioception data from the perspective of the robot while they perform real-world work tasks. We use that data to train multimodal robot foundation models. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy, and refine at scale. Our mission is to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.

Recruiting and Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.