Principal Product Manager

About Piaggio Fast Forward Boston-based company Piaggio Fast Forward Inc. (PFF) was founded in 2015 by the Piaggio Group (the Italian manufacturer that created the iconic Vespa scooter). Our vision is to bring intuitive and efficient technology solutions into the entire human-built environment, supporting the local mobility needs of businesses, communities, and individuals. Our cargo carrying following robots, gitamini and gitaplus, were first designed for consumers to use in everyday built environments. We have since expanded our following technology to mobile solutions that businesses use to augment their labor force in select industries including hospitality, manufacturing, indoor agriculture, construction, and more. In order to bring products to market today, we are solving the problem of robotic interaction with people in dynamically changing environments. We pride ourselves on building in public, designing first-of-their-kind technology products that become more inventive in the hands of our early users. For more information, please visit www.piaggiofastforward.com, follow us on Instagram at @piaggiofastforward, or check out life as an employee @lifeatpff.

Piaggio Fast Forward

We are leaders in following technology, building robotic solutions designed to collaborate with people.

RoboticsComputer VisionRobot NavigationFlexible AutomationFollowing Technologyand Vision Technology

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piaggiofastforward.com

51-200 employees

Automation Machinery Manufacturing

Boston, Massachusetts

2015

Privately Held

8.9k LinkedIn followers

• We're looking for a Product Manager to own product strategy and priorities
• across PFF's full technology stack: software, AI/perception models, and
• hardware; as it shows up across our industrial and consumer robot lines, our
• motorcycle safety modules, and the cloud-based tools and apps that connect to
• our products.
• This is a senior individual-contributor role, not a people-management role.
• You'll report directly to the CEO and work closely with the C-level leadership
• team, but you won't have direct reports. Your leverage comes from the clarity of
• your product thinking, the strength of your relationships across the company
• (especially with Sales, Design, and Program Management), and your ability to
• turn market and customer signal into a prioritized, well-argued roadmap.
• Set product strategy and priorities across a diverse technology stack. Define
• and maintain the product vision, priorities, and roadmap across our core
• technology stack: software, AI/perception models (including radar-based
• sensor fusion); and the physical and digital product lines built on top of it
• (including industrial robots, consumer robots, motorcycle safety modules, and
• the cloud-based tools and apps that support them).
• Partner closely with Sales on the commercial edge of the roadmap. Work
• hand-in-hand with the business sales team to understand existing customer
• needs, deployment feedback, and emerging opportunities to expand adoption of
• our core technology stack, then translating what you learn into concrete
• product priorities and business cases.
• Own the roadmap for cloud-based tools and apps. Define the features and
• priorities for the cloud software and companion apps connected to our robots,
• ensuring they extend the value of the hardware by simplifying their operation
• by our customers.
• Own the motorcycle safety module line as a product category. Work with our
• customers and their desires and requirements as well as benchmarking our
• competitors to build a strong point of view on values to riders of features
• for our RAS modules alongside our robot product lines.
• Champion simplicity as a product principle. Work closely with the Design team
• and bring a genuine, lived understanding that simplicity is harder to achieve
• than complexity; and that it's a discipline, not a default. You'll be
• expected to advocate for the value to customers of simplicity and intuitive
• ease of use in every product decision, and to hold the line on that standard
• even under schedule or feature pressure.
• Set goals and priorities and hand off execution cleanly to Program
• Management. Work in close partnership with the Program Manager who owns
• execution: the tracking, sequencing, and day-to-day interaction with
• Engineering and Operations required to deliver on both new development and
• support of existing products and features. You are responsible for what and
• why; the Program Manager is responsible for how and when. Maintain a thin,
• well-understood boundary between the two: you set clear, well-reasoned
• priorities and goals and you trust the Program Manager to socialize and align
• those goals with Engineering and Operations to get the work done. Stay close
• enough to unblock and clarify intent, without duplicating the Program
• Manager's tracking and execution role.
• Operate as a peer to the C-suite. Represent product thinking in leadership
• discussions, bring outside-in market and customer perspective to company
• strategy, and make the tradeoffs between hardware, software, and AI
• investment explicit and defensible.

• 7+ years of product management experience, with a track record of owning
• roadmaps that span hardware and software (experience with embedded/robotics
• products strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated experience working directly with executive leadership and
• translating company strategy into product priorities, ideally in a role with
• significant autonomy and cross-functional scope.
• Direct experience partnering with sales or customer-facing teams to convert
• customer and market feedback into roadmap decisions.
• A genuine point of view on simplicity in product design that you can speak to
• where you fought for a simpler solution over a more complex one, and why it
• was the right call.
• Comfort operating alongside a Program Manager or similar execution owner,
• with a clear understanding of (and respect for) the boundary between setting
• priorities and managing execution.
• Familiarity with, or strong interest in, sensor fusion, perception, and
• navigation technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This role will regularly
• represent product strategy to the CEO, leadership team, customers, and Board
• of Directors.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in a technical field a plus.
• We like you just the way you are.
• Diversity fuels our innovation. Inclusion, belonging, equity, and neurodiversity
• drives our best-in-class culture. We strive to create workplaces where everyone
• feels empowered to share ideas, grow at their own pace, and work together
• towards a shared vision while holding each other to a higher standard. For us,
• DEI&B is the only way forward.