Product Manager - Robotic Kitchen

Lab37•Los Angeles, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Lab37 Robotics is a technology company developing and deploying robots for direct-to-customer food production. The Product Manager will own the product definition, strategy, and roadmap for KitchenOS tools supporting R&D teams, brand managers, and kitchen operators across recipe development, menu building, production, and inventory workflows. The role translates operator insights and operational data into clear priorities and requirements, and leads the product lifecycle from discovery through QA, rollout, and iteration. The Product Manager will improve user effectiveness and workflow reliability, support seamless launches, and coordinate delivery across the KitchenOS roadmap. This includes making brand and menu launches easier, simplifying kitchen operations, translating forecasts and operational signals into useful tools, and making recipes, instructions, and quality checks accessible at the point of work. The role is based onsite in the company's Los Angeles office five days a week.

Requirements

5–8 years of experience, including 4+ years as a product manager owning B2B or operational products end to end.
Experience building tools for frontline teams such as kitchen, warehouse, field, or retail-floor teams and taking products from discovery through launch.
Ability to turn ambiguous and complex operational problems into intuitive products with measurable results.
Strong systems thinking and ability to understand how recipe, menu, inventory, and production changes affect a connected operation.
Hands-on, field-oriented approach, including comfort spending time in kitchens observing workflows and translating operator feedback and data into product decisions.
Strong written and verbal communication, including writing clear requirements, explaining trade-offs, and aligning cross-functional teams.
Curiosity about transforming food production through software, automation, and improved workflows.
Proficiency in rapidly building prototypes and MVPs with AI tools to test concepts with real users and inform product decisions.

Nice To Haves

Experience in food, restaurant technology, logistics, or manufacturing.
Interest in learning and development, including treating onboarding, training, and in-workflow guidance as part of the product experience.

Responsibilities

Own and prioritize the operator-facing KitchenOS product roadmap using field research, operational data, and business impact.
Build workflows that help new concepts and menu changes become launch-ready while aligning customer orders with kitchen preparation.
Simplify preparation, receiving, and inventory workflows for consistent execution across sites.
Partner with engineering and data science to translate forecasts, recommendations, and operational signals into tools operators can trust and use.
Make current recipes, instructions, and quality checks accessible during work to support adoption and reliable execution.
Coordinate milestones and dependencies across product, engineering, data science, and operations; surface risks and resolve trade-offs early.
Write clear requirements, test products in real kitchens, and lead launch readiness, including QA, field pilots, documentation, training, and iteration.
Align culinary, brand, operations, and technical teams around measurable outcomes.
Use adoption, operator effectiveness, launch speed, and execution quality to guide product priorities.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with multiple plans including HSA options.
Company-paid life and short- and long-term disability insurance.
Voluntary accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance.
Optional supplemental life insurance for the employee, spouse, and children.
Pet insurance discount.
401(k).
Health Savings Account (HSA).
Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuter expenses.
Discretionary vacation days.
Eight paid holidays per year.
Paid sick time.
Paid bereavement leave.
Paid parental leave.
Equity awards may be available.
Annual performance-based bonus may be available.