Product Manager, Developer Experience and Open Source

Intrinsic is Alphabets bet aiming to reimagine the potential of industrial robotics. Our team believes that advances in AI perception and simulation will redefine whats possible for industrial robotics in the near future with software and data at the core.

Our mission is to make industrial robotics intelligent accessible and usable for millions more businesses entrepreneurs and developers. We are a dynamic team of engineers roboticists designers and technologists who are passionate about unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics.

Role

As the Product Manager Developer Experience and Open Source Strategy you will be responsible for defining and executing our holistic vision for engaging the developer and open source robotics community. This is a highly strategic role with a broad portfolio. You will own our core open source experiencea platform based on ROS and tightly integrated with Flowstate as well as the entire data and SDK layer that enables our platform offering and experiences.

Your central mission is to build a vibrant ecosystem that serves as a powerful funnel for our commercial offerings. You will own the open source product offering map out the complete developer journey from community discovery to paid customer and define the product-led strategy for conversion. This role is deeply cross-functional requiring you to own the product relationship and the specific roadmap of key internal engineering teams including the SDK Data and Architecture Evolution team to ensure our platform is robust scalable and meets the needs of both open source and commercial developers.

In addition you will manage Intrinsics efforts and strategic contributions back to foundational community projects including ROS Gazebo and OpenRMF.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Define and articulate a clear unified open source product strategy for our portfolio from our core platform to our community contributions.
• Own the product offering for our core open source platform determining which features are included and how they provide value to developers.
• Define the developer persona and map the complete developer journey from initial discovery of our open source tools to successful onboarding and conversion to our paid platform.
• Define and drive the platform APIs and SDK strategy enabling both open source and commercial developers to integrate with the Intrinsic platform.
• Define and advocate for best practices in API design documentation (API references guides tutorials) SDKs sandboxes and developer support processes.
• Develop and test product-led growth initiatives and monetization strategies to create a seamless and compelling path from community adoption to commercial success.
• Ensure tight product integration and a cohesive user experience between our open source offering and the commercial Flowstate platform particularly in regards to commonality of the SDK and data representation / data management.
• Act as the primary product liaison for the SDK and Data/Architecture teams translating needs from multiple sources (platform solutions community) into a prioritized technical roadmap.
• Champion the open source developer experience working with design documentation and community teams to build a vibrant engaged ecosystem.
• Spearhead community engagements around our open source product including building developer funnels and driving industrial consortiums to drive standardization and adoption.
• Direct Intrinsics strategic contributions to key open source projects (including ROS Gazebo and OpenRMF) ensuring they align with our platform goals and strengthen the broader robotics ecosystem.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelors degree in a technical field or equivalent industry experience.
• Proven track record of success as a product manager ideally on a technical platform or developer-focused product.
• Demonstrable experience managing open source products including engaging with developer communities and managing public roadmaps.
• Proven experience defining and driving API design principles (e.g. REST gRPC) and versioning strategies.
• Developer Experience (DX): Expertise in crafting highly usable well-documented and performant SDKs (e.g. in Python Java Go TypeScript) that minimize friction and time-to-first-use (TTFU).
• Strong strategic and analytical skills with experience in defining customer journeys and product-led growth funnels.
• Ability to dive into complex technical concepts and collaborate effectively with SDK and platform architecture engineers.
• Outstanding communication skills both at the executive level and with peers.
• Integrity that fosters a culture of trust across product business and engineering.
• Ability to dive into and breakdown complex problems without precedence to lean on.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• M.B.A. and/or M.S. in Engineering or Computer Science.
• Deep understanding of open source licensing strategies and their business implications (e.g. GPL AGPL Apache MIT).
• Proven experience with open source monetization and conversion models (e.g. open-core freemium paid support/services like Red Hat dual-licensing etc).
• Experience in robotics solution development with ROS (Robot Operating System) or others.
• Experience as a software engineer or product manager for SDKs APIs or developer tools.
• Exceptionally organized and self-driven with a strong sense of ownership on all projects.

At Intrinsic we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment at Intrinsic is based solely on a persons merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Intrinsic does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race creed color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. It is Intrinsics policy to comply with all applicable national state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.

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