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Principal Product Manager

Shadow Robot has spent 30 years building the most advanced dexterous robotic hands in the world. Our customers include Google DeepMind, OpenAI and the frontier AI labs you’d expect. We’re hiring our first ever Product Manager to lead the move from research platforms into industrial products at scale. It is the single biggest commercial decision Shadow will make in the next five years.

 

This is for the founder, or zero-to-revenue builder, who has done 0 to 1 before – and now wants to step into a deep-tech company with real IP, real customers, and a transition that needs leading.

You will define the product strategy that determines what Shadow develops for the next decade. You will lead it. You will work directly with our Managing Director, Commercial Director and Head of Product Development with a real seat at the leadership table. 

 

Our Tech Lead owns how we develop; you own what we develop, why and for whom.

group photo of the Shadow Robot engineering team, making various Hand signals and smiling

Our core values are:

We care about each other

  • We enjoy challenging the impossible
  • Compassionate

When we add new people to our team, wherever you’re based and whatever role you’re doing, you’ll see that we all live and breathe these core values.

What you will spend your time on

Customer discovery - defining the industrial problems Shadow should solve, deciding which we are not chasing

Product strategy across hardware and software, including a multi-generation roadmap and the trade-offs underneath it

Being the in-house voice of the customer in engineering decisions - challenging defaults, defining MVPs

Translating market needs into curated work packages the engineering team can execute on

Bridging commercial and R&D, keeping the product roadmap and commercial reality aligned

What makes this worth your time

30 years of dexterous robotics IP and customers including Google DeepMind, OpenAI and the frontier AI labs you would expect

The genuine move from research platforms into industrial products at scale ry cycles

Strategic ownership of Shadow's product future across hardware, software, commercial and technical

This is not for you if

You have not founded a company or built a product from zero to revenue yourself

You want a corporate atmosphere with heavy process - Shadow is small, scrappy and bootstrap-y

You delegate customer discovery rather than do it yourself

The practicals

Salary: £85,000 - £100,000 per annum + a stake in our employee-owned business

Basis: PAYE, permanent. Office-based, Gospel Oak, London

Notes: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship

Apply through Helen at HFBAC

Send your CV across to register your interest and Helen will be in touch.

You may see this role advertised in more than one place  –  as a Senior Product Manager, as a Principal Product Manager, or as a confidential search through HFBAC. It is the same vacancy. If you have already applied to one version, you do not need to apply again. We are casting wide because the right person for this pivotal hire could come from either profile.