Senior Product Manager (Software)

Why join Seegrid?

Seegrid is the leading provider of autonomous mobile robots for material handling. Seegrid has been recognized as a Top 5 most innovative robotics company in the world by Fast Company in 2022. We develop and deliver mobile robots and enterprise software for global leaders in logistics, manufacturing, warehousing, and e-commerce. Our suite of solutions includes mobile robots, material flow software platform, and best-in-class service and support. Our unique and proven technology sets us apart—our automation solutions have safely driven millions of autonomous miles in real production facilities without a single personnel safety incident. We are seeking energetic, bright, and friendly people to help achieve our vision: to fortify global supply chains and create profitable economies with safe, seamless, and smart mobile robotics solutions. 

About the Role

We empower our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that our customers love yet work for our business. The Senior Product Manager must discover and validate unmet market needs, prioritize based on commercial value, collaborate closely with product designers and engineers to define effective solutions, and then work together to deliver those solutions to market.

We are looking for passionate leaders who inspire teams to discover pervasive unmet needs, ship products and solutions that deliver true value to our customers and drive real growth for the company. While we empower our product teams to figure out the best solutions to the problems that need to be solved, we also hold those teams accountable for results. 

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for managing and executing our fleet management, analytics, and execution software solutions. This role is responsible for overall product portfolio planning and roadmap delivery, including broad aspects of the platform. Demonstrated experience of commercial product success in enterprise, industrial, or B2B SaaS software, is required. Supply chain automation domain knowledge is highly desirable.  

The Senior Product Manager must be able to join a dynamic and fast-paced environment, working with cross-functional teams to design, build, and roll-out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy. Our Product Managers are well versed in product management disciplines and methods, customer-centered design thinking, value creation through solving unmet needs, economics and business cases for product viability, organizational alignment around product goals, and exceptional communication, visibility, and cross-functional leadership and collaboration.

Ramping up for success

• Within your first 30 days, you will have a clear understanding of stakeholders, company culture, existing development and products, key customers and markets, product strategy, business model, and competition.
• Within your first 60 days, you will develop the strategic plan for the product portfolio.
• Within your first 90 days, you will execute the operational plan for the product portfolio that supports the strategic plan.

General Responsibilities

• Expand understanding of our customers, market, and industry, and become an expert on unmet needs and pervasive market problems
• Understand our business, what creates value, what product offerings are economically viable, define monetization strategies, and articulate business cases for decisions
• Leverage the jobs to be done framework to capture customer impact, define requirements, and deliver product innovation
• Represent the company by visiting customers to observe and discover their unmet needs and solicit feedback on company products and services
• Collaborate with Design and Engineering to drive solutions that have desirability, viability, and feasibility

• Own the roadmap for your product portfolio, establish commercial strategies, and deliver significant value by bringing offerings to market

Requirements and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent preferred
• Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgment to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and highly collaborative relationship
• At least six (6) years’ experience as a technology product manager who has shipped products, including at least three (3) for enterprise, industrial, or B2B software products
• Authentically kind, insatiably curious, and proactively driven
• Must be able to travel up to 30% of the time

Desired Experience

• Master’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent
• MBA or commensurate business experience

Seegrid embraces a remote workforce. This position is preferred to be in Pittsburgh or Eastern or Central time zones, but it can be remotely located anywhere in the US with periodic visits to Seegrid HQ in Pittsburgh, PA.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Seegrid is an equal opportunity employer Minorities/Females/People with Disabilities/Protected Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.