Sr. Product Manager, Smart Cameras Greater Chicago area – Onsite 3 days per week
Role Summary In this role you will be a part of the team that is making access control simple, smart, and secure for millions of families! Create the future of our Smart Home video ecosystem – make it easy for every homeowner to monitor the interior and exterior of the entire home from anywhere with our Smart Home app.
You will be expected to develop, communicate, and implement the roadmap and product strategy for smart security systems with embedded cameras. You will have high visibility to senior leadership teams and ownership of results for the product category, brand and pricing strategy, and integrated marketing plans. Along with this, you will create and execute multi-year operating plans aligned to our overall business objectives (revenue, gross profit, operating income, quality, delivery, cost and innovation); track product category financial performance; and ensure organizational alignment of product category priorities and goals.
Responsibilities: - Develop, communicate and implement product strategy for assigned business unit product portfolio; deliver brand strategy, product portfolio management, integrated marketing planning and pricing strategies
- Drive annual and multi-year operating plans and results for their product portfolio, which is aligned to our overall business objectives (revenue, gross profit, operating income, quality, delivery, cost and innovation); track product portfolio financial performance; ensure organizational alignment of product portfolio priorities and goals
- Support achievement of full P&L objectives for the business unit, driving profitability, volume growth and market share, as well as execution of product and services
- Own achievement of product portfolio average net selling price and gross margin, recommending and implementing pricing objectives, strategies, and guardrails to extract maximum value on new and existing products; focus on growing revenue through product line mix and average net selling price improvements, improving margin through cost reductions and updating product line with incremental innovation, growing engagement through improvements to user experience
- Define and communicate the product portfolio vision in support of the business unit strategy, including maintaining a clear product roadmap aligned to business goals in the short- and long-term; emphasis should be on fast-paced new product development, sustaining product support and insight driven; product strategy should include both hardware and software focus in order to deliver compelling user experiences
- Develop and implement the strategy for their product offering, brand, and channels; partner with marketing, sales, and customer experience leaders to develop go-to-market strategies to win in targeted customer segments; lead the creation of end-to-end operational plans to drive profitably, grow and scale the business; work cross functionally to ensure achievement of product line objectives
- Serve as a Product Owner leading the development and owning the implementation and sustaining of the end user connected experience, including uncovering real-time consumer insights, driving user experience requirements, creating business cases and winning value propositions, and leading cross-functional development teams
- Ensure the cross-functional marketing team has the necessary processes and procedures in place to manage the quality, cost, and delivery of products; identify areas for improvement, propose improvements to leadership and ensure team takes action when corrections are needed
- Interface with analysts, media/PR outlets, key industry conferences in order to educate customers, partners and end users about our vision, strategy and new product innovations; represent the company with customers, competitors, trade associations, government agencies, professional societies and similar groups
- Develop a clear after-sales and service strategy to ensure customers are cultivated and supported in the long term, with the Customer Experience and Marketing teams, as appropriate
- Provide product content guidance and prioritization, integrated marketing planning and pricing strategies, facilitating and/or leading daily scrum activities, and executing against clearly defined timelines
Requirements: - 5+ years' experience in Product Management and/or Marketing role
- Including 2+ years' experience in development of indoor and/or outdoor cameras or video products for video subscription, facial recognition, artificial intelligence, IoT or SaaS applications
- Technical product development experience with overseas OEM/ODM vendors
- Experience with go-to-market strategies and product marketing requirements for smart home, e-commerce, and/or consumer electronics products in big box retail stores
- Able to travel up to 25%
Nice to have: Masters in Business Administration (MBA) preferred
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