Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) für Robotik & Automatisierung (m/f/d)

About The Role

At RobCo, we develop AI-powered robotic systems that make industrial processes more autonomous, efficient, and scalable. Our Autonomous Manufacturing Platform combines modular industrial hardware with physical AI, enabling rapid deployment and continuous optimization in real production environments.

Locations: Munich, San Francisco, Austin. Backed by leading investors such as Lightspeed, Lingotto Innovation, and Sequoia, we are redefining industrial automation.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Program Ownership: Responsible for multiple strategically relevant robotics deployment programs simultaneously – from pre-sales alignment and technical solution design through implementation to successful handover into operational business.
• Building Scalable Structures: Develop governance frameworks, reporting standards, and delivery processes that enable fast, high-quality growth; establish best practices for future programs.
• Strategic Stakeholder Management: Act as a sparring partner to C-level executives, investors, customers, and internal leadership teams; create transparency regarding progress, risks, dependencies, and business impact; make data-driven decisions.
• Technical and Commercial Steering: Maintain oversight of technical integration details and commercial aspects such as budgets, margins, resource planning, and business cases; ensure projects are delivered successfully from a financial perspective.
• Risk and Escalation Management: Identify systemic risks early, initiate preventive measures, and manage escalations in a structured and solution-oriented manner.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Analyze recurring patterns, identify optimization potential, and actively drive automation and standardization of deployment processes.

Qualifications

• Completed technical university degree (e.g., Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science) or equivalent with significant technical professional experience.
• 7+ years of experience managing complex technical programs, ideally in robotics, automation, industrial tech, or hardware-software integration.
• Proven experience building scalable project or deployment structures in a high-growth environment.
• Strong systems understanding of mechatronic or cyber-physical systems.
• Ability to abstract technical details to an executive level and translate them into business impact.
• Confident presence when interacting with customers, management, and external partners.
• Experience with budget responsibility, resource planning, and commercial management.
• Structured, data-driven working style combined with pragmatic execution skills.
• Excellent German and English language skills.

Benefits

• Develop modular, software-defined robotics solutions that set new standards in automation.
• Help build robots equipped with state-of-the‑art AI that perceive their environment, analyze data, and make intelligent decisions in real time.
• Take on responsibility from day one in a very dynamic, fast-growing scale‑up; drive own projects and see direct impact.
• Flat hierarchies, open communication, and regular 360° feedback enable fast decisions and support professional and personal development.
• Work out across Germany in over 7,200 studios with subsidized Wellpass membership.
• Flexible working hours, a modern office, and depending on the role – option to work from home.
• Regular team events—from relaxed beer & pizza nights on the rooftop terrace to shared experiences on ski trips or at Oktoberfest.

At RobCo, applicants are selected regardless of ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation. All decisions throughout the recruitment process are based solely on applicants’ qualifications, skills, knowledge, and experience, as well as relevant business requirements.