Product Manager
Inside Lighting
Date: 6 days ago
City: Union City, CA
Contract type: Full time
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Product Manager
Union City, California
Description
As Product Manager, you will guide the product development life cycle from cradle to grave by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, product development timetables, and facilitate plans and efforts for product introduction. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company to improving or developing processes for onboarding new technologies. You will build products from existing ideas and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and industry experts. You must possess a unique blend of business, people and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You will command the skill of time and project management to balance multiple projects and prioritize time and resources to meet project deadlines. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the architectural lighting market, including products, trends, customer needs and technologies.
You must be able to effectively communicate with all areas of the company and customers.. You will be tasked with defining, developing and managing products and must engage teams in every aspect of the development process. You will be the expert and champion both internally and externally for your products and will be required to communicate the product line’s values. You will be required to use your interpersonal skills to influence team members across multiple functions.
Key Responsibilities
Product Manager
Union City, California
Description
As Product Manager, you will guide the product development life cycle from cradle to grave by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, product development timetables, and facilitate plans and efforts for product introduction. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company to improving or developing processes for onboarding new technologies. You will build products from existing ideas and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and industry experts. You must possess a unique blend of business, people and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You will command the skill of time and project management to balance multiple projects and prioritize time and resources to meet project deadlines. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the architectural lighting market, including products, trends, customer needs and technologies.
You must be able to effectively communicate with all areas of the company and customers.. You will be tasked with defining, developing and managing products and must engage teams in every aspect of the development process. You will be the expert and champion both internally and externally for your products and will be required to communicate the product line’s values. You will be required to use your interpersonal skills to influence team members across multiple functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Roadmap Development: develop and execute a product roadmap that is aligned with market trends, customer needs and company goals
- Lifecycle management: Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
- Market Research and Analysis: Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and other key stakeholders.
- Data Analytics: Analyze market performance data of current product portfolio and provide strategic recommendations to leadership stakeholders
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Using project management skills to drive the development and execution of a product solution across all cross-functional teams from market requirements through launch.
- Customer & Sales Support: provide ongoing support to sales, marketing and customers on product specifications through training and presentations
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or a related field; MBA preferred
- 5+ years of product management experience
- Knowledgeable in lighting and/or building controls highly valued
- Strong data analysis & presentation skills
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Strong interpersonal skills – highly collaborative and able to work effectively in a team
- Excellent communicator and listener to multiple audiences.
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- This position requires travel to customer and non-customer sites in (10%).
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