Product Manager, Trust & Safety (Robotics)

Location: Redwood City, CA, United States; onsite

Salary: $180K–$250K per year plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is developing personal robots designed to handle repetitive household tasks and help households reclaim time.

What you will do

• Own the safety and trust roadmap for Memo and define the safety bar for each release.
• Build a system-level safety case covering failure modes across navigation, hardware, controls, task design, firmware, and user communications.
• Define and track safety test coverage for every subsystem and validate firmware and software releases before over-the-air deployment.
• Own product data privacy, including in-home recording, teleoperator access, retention, and user controls.
• Design stop conditions, warnings, recovery behavior, and user communications for interactions with kids, pets, and unexpected situations.
• Establish safety standards, lead incident investigations and root-cause analysis, convert real-home observations into requirements, and track safety metrics.

Requirements

• 3+ years in product, safety, or quality roles involving physical consumer products used in homes, such as new-category products, home fitness equipment, power tools, or kitchen appliances.
• Experience shipping hardware into homes where standards were limited and new safety standards had to be established.
• Experience working with engineers on test plans, failure analysis, or release gating.
• Familiarity with data privacy principles for connected consumer devices, including cameras and in-home sensors.
• Strong attention to detail, including the ability to review test reports and identify edge cases.
• Ability to learn navigation stacks, controllers, and firmware release processes well enough to identify risks and gaps.
• Strong judgment, responsibility, and willingness to stop or delay a release when it is not safe.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and creating an initial safety standard at an early-stage company.

Nice to have

• Automotive, aerospace, or medical device experience is helpful but not required.
• Experience with consumer product safety standards such as ASTM, UL, or CPSC; in-home cameras or robots; or incident and recall processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Work onsite in Redwood City, California, as part of the Product department.
• Join an early-stage company developing generalized personal robots for home use.
• Work cross-functionally with robot software, hardware, controls, ML, app, design, operations, product, and engineering.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants regardless of protected characteristics.