Product Manager for MujinController

Mujin develops "MujinController," a platform that leverages a real-time digital twin and advanced robotics to seamlessly connect industrial equipment for fully autonomous operations.

Driven by our unique approach towards Robotics Machine Intelligence (MujinMI), we offer a robust suite of perception, planning, and control algorithms, enabling autonomous robot movement and transforming automation in challenging industrial environments.

Trusted by globally recognized companies, our cutting-edge technology enhances efficiency and innovation across the supply chain. With headquarters in Japan and expanding offices in China, the US, and Europe, Mujin offers a dynamic, fast-growing environment where your work directly shapes the future of automation.

Mujin is a global leader in industrial automation, revolutionizing how robots are used in production and distribution through advanced technologies like motion planning, computer vision, and machine intelligence. Our flagship product, the MujinController, empowers end users with a highly configurable, no-code interface for seamless automation across diverse applications such as palletizing, picking, and truck unloading.

We are seeking a Product Manager to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the next-generation MujinController, driving innovation and commercialization in a rapidly growing market. This role is central to enhancing user experience, meeting market demands, and expanding our global impact.

Responsibilities:

• Research and monitor industry trends, competitors, and best practices in industrial automation and intelligent robotics
• Ensure timely completion of the product without cost overruns
• Portfolio Management: Oversees the product portfolio from creation to retirement, ensuring orders, revenue and profitability
• Contributes to business strategy formulation and translates it into the offering and solution portfolio through market and customer segmentation, and continuously evaluates the portfolio content with a focus on new potential solution deployments
• Contributes to new portfolios development by leading customer need and value analysis, planning the roadmap to create maximum value, monitoring portfolio performance, and coordinating with R&D
• Market analysis: Analyzes and tracks market, technology, competitor and customer requirements and trends related to the offering business including relevant regulations and standards and determines competitive attributes, prioritization and value proposition
• Design and negotiate systems interfacing, network architecture, PLC and network protocols, and project-specific requirements with customers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in product management or product development in industrial automation, intelligent robotics, or related fields
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

Required Technical Competencies:

• In-depth knowledge of common network protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, ZMQ, TLS
• Experience working with PLC, timing charts, databases such as Postgres, and key-value stores such as Redis
• Familiar with industry best practices regarding network security, data consistency, high availability and redundancy
• Fundamental networking knowledge regarding network addresses, subnets, routing, broadcasting, port forwardingand , address masquerading, as well as common network services and functions such as DHCP, NTP, SSH, and VNC. Wireless technology such as 802.1X, roaming, wireless AP troubleshooting
• Ability to understand and contribute to complex software systems. Ability to design network architecture and communication protocols for large-scale software systems with considerations for low latency, data consistency, data recovery, failover, security and avoidance of timing issues and race conditions.

Location

• 3-8-5 Tatsumi, Koto-Ku, Tokyo 135-0053, Japan

Work Hours

• 8:45 - 17:45 (with a 60-minute break)

Salary

• Based on experience and skills
• Salary revision twice a year
• Additional bonuses available based on performance

Holidays

• Every Saturday and Sunday
• Annual paid leaves
• Maternity leave and Childcare leave
• Other holidays as defined by the company

Company Benefits

• Flexible dress code policy
• Commuting allowance
• Japanese Social Security (Health Insurance, Pension, Labor Insurance)
• Monthly team dinner support
• Free buffet lunch every workday
• Free vending machines (offering drinks and snacks)
• High-end coffee machine
• Exclusive Employee Gym Access

Japan Relocation Support

• Visa sponsorship
• Flight ticket support
• Shipping expenses coverage up to a specified limit
• Assistance for housing