Product Manager, HRI (Human Robot Interaction)

Preferred

• Fluency in character and personality design: how a point of view, movement style, and voice combine into something people recognize and care about.
• Experience working across animation, sound, and UI on one coherent experience, and holding the line on consistency across surfaces.
• Enough technical grounding to work with engineers on what a robot can physically and computationally express, and to make tradeoffs between ideal and feasible.
• Strong user research instincts. You watch people, notice what they misread, and fix it.
• Comfort with ambiguity at an early-stage company. You can write the first version of a character bible that doesn't exist yet.
• Bonus: robotics or physical product HRI experience; game or film character animation direction; voice/conversational design; work with TTS and motion-audio sync.
• What success looks like in 6 months
• A character bible for Memo exists and is used by animation, voice, app design, and engineering.