Technical Product Manager, Platform

Our Mission:

At Sunrise Robotics, we are dedicated to augmenting humanity through intelligent robotics. Our mission is to elevate the world of manufacturing by introducing intelligent, flexible robots that enhance human capabilities and existing machinery, ushering in the next era of production at higher quality, with less waste, and lower cost.

Our Vision:

We see a future where every element of manufacturing, from design to assembly, is optimised with intelligent automation. Our vision is to integrate flexible robotic solutions, based on generic hardware and advanced software/AI capabilities, into manufacturing, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises, to make automation economically viable and accessible, for all sizes of manufacturers. We are not just building robots; we are creating the strategically crucial components for autonomous, intelligent agents of the future.

The Role:

Platform is the core part of what makes Sunrise succeed: the software that lets a robotic cell see, move and recover, and the simulation pipeline we use to build and test all of it. You will own it.

You will own what Platform builds and why: which problems it solves next, what done means, and when it lands. This is not a backlog administration job. The engineers you will work with have strong, well argued technical opinions. You need the robotics depth to argue back with evidence, to challenge an estimate credibly, and to judge when the elegant architecture is worth the time and when it is not. The same judgement runs toward the customer: what Platform builds becomes the capabilities that decide which processes we can automate and which markets we can enter, so every technical trade-off is also a customer value decision.

What you’ll do:Own the Platform roadmap

• Run discovery and prioritisation: turn ideas from customers, engineers and leadership into evidenced, prioritised jobs to be done.

• Turn prioritised jobs to be done into initiatives: write the specs, set milestones the team can commit to, and sequence them against the Sunrise roadmap.

• In robot software the cost of change is the core problem: a wrong requirement costs months, not days. Work out how much specification each decision needs, and catch the expensive mistakes before anyone builds them.

Run delivery with engineering

• Run cycle planning for the pillar, name the outcome of each cycle, and check that the planned work adds up to that outcome.

• Track dates against milestones with each initiative's technical lead. When estimates and targets disagree, cut scope, add people or move the date, explicitly and early.

• Sign off that delivered work meets the requirements and the quality bar written in the spec.