Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary AI is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Junior Technical Product Manager to join our Product team. As a Junior Technical Product Manager, you will play a vital role in contributing to the product roadmap and supporting R&D operations.
Reporting to the Technical Program Manager of the Product team, you’ll make meaningful contributions to furthering and shaping our product technology roadmap.
Our Success Criteria
- Assist in developing the product roadmap in collaboration with product management and engineering stakeholders.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads to collect requirements and help define high priority projects translating feature requests into requirement workflow diagrams, user stories, and test/acceptance criteria
- Support the creation of product requirements documents that provide clear and actionable guidelines for the development teams.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including design, engineering, and marketing, to ensure timely and quality delivery of product features.
- Contribute to R&D efforts through effective inter-team collaboration and operational support
- Identify and communicate risks to stakeholders, define risk mitigation strategies, and facilitate appropriate solutions
- Achieve company-wide visibility as you partner with leaders to tailor product development to rapidly evolving market needs
Your Experience
Qualifications
- 1+ years of relevant experience in product management in a technical environment
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience in a related technical discipline
- Previous experience in product management or a related field (internships included)
- Hands-on experience with product management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello, etc.)
- Proven ability to foster a resourceful and creative approach to overcoming obstacles and turning challenges into opportunities
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to analyze and problem solve complex technical challenges
- Familiarity with cross functional team project management
- Excellent organizational, time management, and multitasking skills
- Ability to adapt to ambiguous situations
- Collaborative and proactive mindset
Traits
- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to mission objectives
- Successful candidates will be a proponent of personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
- Empathetic listener with conflict resolution capabilities
- Consistent bias for action, communication, and interpersonal savvy
- Self-motivated and able to solve challenging problems independently
- Mission driven and passionate about bringing human-like intelligence to machines
Working at Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.
Benefits
Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, paid statutory holidays, paid statutory sick leave, and statutory parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.
About Sanctuary AI
Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.
Members of the Sanctuary AI team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.
Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.
