Head of Cognitive Robot Arms (human)

About the Position

Head of Cognitive Robot Arms (human)

Metzingen / Riederich

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Your Mission & Challenges

As the Head of Cognitive Robot Arms, you will be responsible for the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our robot arms across the entire lifecycle, from concept to series production. You will drive alignment across various departments, analyze market trends, and ensure the product meets safety and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Product & Business Ownership: Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our robot arms.
• Prioritization & Backlog: Define, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog in alignment with Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, and Software.
• Leading in the Matrix: Drive alignment across Hardware, Software, Sales, and Business Development.
• Market & Customer Insight: Analyze market trends, customer feedback, and competitive dynamics.
• Go-to-Market & Certification: Co-lead product launches and drive safety, regulatory, and certification requirements.
• Traceable Decisions: Document product decisions, assumptions, and trade-offs transparently.
• Stakeholder Communication: Report status, risks, and priorities to the CEO and C-level, and represent the product at trade fairs and customer visits.

Requirements

• Education: Degree in Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable qualification.
• Product Experience: 5–8+ years as Product Owner or Product Manager, ideally in robotics, automation, or complex mechatronic systems.
• Technical Depth: Solid understanding of cobot mechanics, kinematics, sensor systems, and industrial communication standards.
• Safety & Certification: Understanding of safety, regulatory, and certification requirements at product level.
• Agile Methods: Familiarity with Scrum or SAFe and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Matrix & Stakeholder Competence: Ability to manage several stakeholders and competing priorities through transparent prioritization and expectation management.
• Decision Strength: Entrepreneurial ownership with the ability to prioritize, say no when needed, and base decisions on data and customer needs.
• Resilience: Ability to stay effective under pressure in a fast-paced and often ambiguous environment.
• Communication: Comfortable in detailed reviews with engineers and in status and risk reports for the CEO and C-level.
• Languages: Fluent English at a professional level; German is a plus.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge field of industrial automation
• Professional growth and development opportunities

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