Lead the development of warehouse automation products by defining strategies, collaborating with teams, engaging customers, and managing the product lifecycle.
About this role:
Pickle is looking for a driven Senior Product Manager to spearhead the next generation of warehouse automation. In this role, you’ll combine strategic product leadership with hands-on execution across robotics, machine learning, and physical AI. This is your chance to bring physical AI solutions to market, solving real customer problems today while paving the way for expansion into new applications and industries.
What You’ll Accomplish:
- Define the Future of AI: Define the vision, strategy, and comprehensive roadmaps for Pickle’s physical AI solutions, collaborating closely with hardware/software product managers and engineering leadership.
- Drive Execution: Lead the product development cycle by translating deep market and customer needs into detailed, technically-aligned product requirements that support core business objectives.
- Champion Cross-Functional Success: Ensure successful product outcomes by partnering with highly technical engineering, design, and operations teams to align priorities and execute key deliverables.
- Deep Customer & Market Insight: Engage closely with customers and end-users to gather feedback, test prototypes, and iterate on solutions that solve critical real-world problems. Conduct thorough competitive analysis and monitor industry trends to position Pickle's solutions as industry leaders.
- Product Lifecycle Ownership: Manage the entire product journey for your designated product area, from initial concept development and prototyping through full production, deployment, and end-of-life strategies.
Who You Are:
- Product Management: 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in robotics, automation, or a related field.
- Technical Product Expertise: Proven experience driving end-to-end development of AI-powered products—from early inception to delivery. Experience with warehouse automation or robotics is a strong plus.
- Development Fluency: Proven ability to collaborate with highly technical teams across both software and hardware domains.
- Communication & Documentation: Excellent verbal and written skills, with the ability to clearly and effectively communicate complex technical information to various stakeholders. Demonstrated success in creating high-quality market requirements, product requirement documents, and technical white papers.
- Product Tools and Methodologies: Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodologies and systems like JIRA, Confluence, or similar platforms.
- Data-driven: Ability to synthesise data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions—familiarity with tools like Excel, Tableau, or other analytics platforms.
- Customer-Centric: Deeply empathetic to customer needs, with a strong ability to translate feedback into actionable insights.
- Collaborative: Thrives in a cross-functional environment, working with engineering, marketing, sales, and customers to drive results.
- Location & Travel: You are willing and able to work in our Charleston, MA headquarters at least 3x per week. You are also able to travel to customer warehouses as required, approximately 25% of the time.
About Pickle Robot
Pickle Robot is a pioneer in Physical AI for supply chain applications. Today Pickle robots autonomously unload trucks, trailers, and import containers at human-scale or better performance. The alternative is manual work that is difficult, dirty, sometimes dangerous, and increasingly hard to staff at distribution centers around the globe. Pickle Robot is laser focused on automating truck unloading using generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, advanced sensors, and industrial robotics to deliver engineered products customers rely on. Pickle Robot Unload Systems work alongside people on loading docks to make the work safer, faster, and more efficient. Pickle robots are physical AI that unload trucks.
Pickle provides best-in-class benefits including health, dental, & vision insurance; unlimited vacation, along with all federal and state holidays; 401K contributions of 5% your salary, travel supplies, and other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive.
Pay at Pickle
At Pickle Robot Company, we believe transparency builds trust. The salary range listed here is provided in accordance with Massachusetts law and reflects what we reasonably and in good faith expect to offer for this role. We often consider candidates at different levels of seniority, and final compensation will reflect the level at which a candidate is hired, along with factors like experience and location.
Top Skills
Agile
Confluence
Excel
JIRA
Machine Learning
Physical Ai
Robotics
Scrum
Tableau
Pickle Robot Company Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Office
Cambridge, MA, United States, 02139
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