Burros (www.burro.ai) are the category-defining autonomous mobile robot for outdoor automation alongside people in agricultural and industrial settings - think Disney's Wall-E/Star Wars R2D2, for work outdoors, in a version 1.0 format. Backed by Toyota Ventures.
About the role
We are seeking a Product Manager to own our industrial business — the logistics, distribution, and material-handling environments where our robots increasingly work alongside people, equipment, and existing operations. The ideal candidate will have shipped physical products into industrial settings, is comfortable spending real time on customer sites, and can own a product area without being managed through it.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in product management shipping physical products, such as robots, autonomous vehicles, industrial machinery, heavy equipment, or comparable, that were deployed commercially
- Direct experience in industrial environments: warehousing, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, material handling, construction, or similar
- Track record of owning a product area independently: setting direction, defending it, and living with the outcome
- Genuine comfort working in the field, on customer sites, for days at a time
- Strong written communication. Requirements, decision memos, and customer synthesis are how influence travels here
- Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time
More about this role
Burro is the leading robotics company in the world by number of robots working outdoors in the field with real customers. Our mission is to free people from tedious work and solve the critical labor shortages faced by farmers and others that work outdoors.
To accomplish our mission, we need a world-class, diverse team where everyone feels comfortable sharing their ideas. With this in mind, we strive to create a work environment where every employee can be themselves and express their perspective – this enables us to deliver the most creative and innovative solutions to problems our customers face.
Headquartered in Philadelphia with an office in central California, and backed by top Agtech and autonomy investors, including S2G, Catalyst, Translink, Cibus, FPrime, Toyota Ventures, FFVC, Xplorer, and Radicle, Burro was created to solve the labor shortages facing farmers using robotics.
Burros can be described as Disney's Wall-E for agriculture and work outdoors, in a 1.0 format. They function, today, as computer vision based autonomous ground vehicles for carrying, towing, and scouting, and are designed to lay the base for the fully autonomous future of work outdoors. We have a...
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