Principal Product Manager

The posting, as Piaggio Fast Forward wrote it

Principal Product Manager

Who We Are

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). We are on a mission to build technology products that move the way that people move. To bring products to market today, PFF is solving the problem of robotic interaction with people in dynamically changing environments. We’re innovators, neighbors, and creators with a passion for local living and pushing the limits on urban transportation. We support a sustainable mobility ecology with healthy lifestyles and social connectivity available to all, regardless of age or abilities.

The Role

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.

What You'll Do

• 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, no

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le 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.

Yearly Base Salary Range for this position is $150.000 to $185,000

We like you just the way you are.
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Employment Eligibility Verification
Piaggio Fast Forward participates in E-Verify, an electronic employment verification program operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA), to verify the employment eligibility of newly hired employees. Piaggio Fast Forward is an E-Verify Employer, and as such, the company will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States.

For more information about E-Verify, please visit the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website: https://www.e-verify.gov/