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Senior 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 are now hiring our first ever Product Manager to take that IP from research platforms into industrial products at scale.

 

This is for the Product Manager who has shipped a real 0 to 1 product before – and wants to do it again, at a profitable, employee-owned robotics company at the moment its biggest commercial transition gets made.

 

You will define what we develop, why, and for whom. You will work directly with our Managing Director, Commercial Director and Head of Product Development. A Tech Lead owns how things get built; you own what gets built and why. This is the role where a strong Senior PM grows into a Principal, with active mentorship from the MD built in from day one.

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 and 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 real customers including frontier AI companies you would recognise including Google DeepMind, OpenAI and the frontier AI labs you would expect

A genuine 0 to 1 mandate at a moment that genuinely matters - the move from research platforms into industrial products at scale

Direct mentorship from our MD with a clear path to growing into Principal

This is not for you if

You have only iterated on mature products

You delegate customer discovery rather than do it yourself

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

The practicals

Salary: £75,000 - £84,000 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 here

Send your CV across and Helen, our embedded talent manager 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.