Senior Staff Product Manager

Faraday Future•El Segundo, CA

About The Position

Faraday Future is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Product Manager for its EAI R&D department to lead detailed product definition and delivery acceptance for the FF Robotics EAI Brain portfolio. Based in R&D, this role translates the Company Product Department’s market insights and strategic direction into requirements, release plans, and measurable acceptance criteria. The role owns detailed product definition for the FF Robotics EAI Brain and supporting software as assigned in the product roadmap. Potential scope includes embodied AI, perception and navigation, motion control, VLA and world-model capabilities, voice and multimodal interaction, Skills and Agents, and developer tools and interfaces. The position defines reusable capabilities across robot devices and works with engineering and industry solutions teams to integrate them into customer applications. The Senior Staff Product Manager converts market needs and approved strategy into actionable requirements and owns the backlog, priorities, release scope, and traceability. The role drives delivery commitments, sets acceptance criteria and measurable release targets, leads product acceptance and sign-off, and recommends readiness to the designated release authority. Engineering and QA retain responsibility for technical verification and test execution. The role also validates capabilities in customer scenarios, uses field feedback and performance data to prioritize improvements, and maintains alignment with the Company Product Department through regular reviews.

Requirements

12+ years of relevant professional experience, including substantial ownership of technical product definition and delivery for robotics, AI software, developer platforms, or comparable complex products.
Demonstrated ability to translate high-level product direction into precise, actionable requirements and acceptance criteria that engineering teams can execute.
Strong technical fluency in AI and software systems, including understanding model limitations, deployment constraints, hardware and software dependencies, and performance and reliability tradeoffs.
Track record of shipping products through cross-functional teams, managing scope and delivery risks, and accepting releases against measurable experience and quality standards.
Strong product judgment, structured problem solving, and clear written communication.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and engineers in a matrix organization without relying on direct authority.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with embodied AI, robotic autonomy, VLA models, world models, motion control, human–robot interaction, Skills or Agent platforms, or robotics developer ecosystems.
Experience validating AI capabilities on physical robots and working across simulation, deployment, and field operations.
Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and requirements management tools and practices.
Experience working with teams in the United States and China.
Professional proficiency in English; Mandarin Chinese is a plus.

Responsibilities

Translate market needs and approved product strategy into product requirements, use cases, user journeys, functional specifications, operating boundaries, exception handling, and measurable success criteria.
Define product behavior in detail for engineering, including interactions, configuration, interface and data requirements, and dependencies.
Partner with design and engineering to resolve ambiguity before development.
Own the product backlog, feature priorities, and release scope.
Maintain traceability from customer needs through requirements and engineering work to acceptance evidence; manage requirement changes and their impacts on schedule and quality.
Drive delivery commitments with engineering and program teams; establish milestones and dependencies, monitor progress, resolve blockers, and escalate risks with scope, schedule, and quality tradeoffs.
Define acceptance criteria before development, including functional completeness, user experience, AI task success, response time, reliability, and recovery behavior.
Establish measurable release targets with engineering and QA for relevant operating environments.
Lead product acceptance through scenario reviews, demonstrations, usability evaluations, and validation on real robots.
Assess evidence against agreed criteria and document gaps, required fixes, and acceptance decisions.
Own product acceptance sign-off for requirements, experience, and quality within the company release process.
Identify release blockers, drive defect closure, and present readiness recommendations to the designated release authority.
Work with industry solutions, deployment, and support teams to validate capabilities in customer scenarios.
Turn field feedback and product performance into prioritized improvements and verify the effectiveness of subsequent releases.
Maintain alignment with the Company Product Department through regular product definition and release reviews.
Escalate changes to strategic scope, positioning, or major customer commitments for alignment before execution.