You know the moment. It’s the first notes of that song you love, the intro to your favorite movie, or simply the sound of someone you love saying “hello.” It’s in these moments that sound matters most.
At Bose, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth. We’ve dedicated ourselves to improving it for nearly 60 years. And we’re passionate down to our bones about making whatever you’re listening to a little more magical.
At Bose, we are constantly learning and constantly curious. We never stop imagining what better sound sounds like. The Product team leads the transformation of ideas through research, design, development, marketing, and sales, unleashing the transformative power of sound and delivering the best products on the market.
Job Description
This Product Management Director, Wearables category will be a customer-centric and product-loving business leader who will take Bose’s wearable category to new heights. This leader will be focused on the industry and opportunities in the market and will work closely with designers, engineering, marketing, supply chain, and sales to drive growth and contribution margin – from inception of new ideas through end-of-life products.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be the champion for the customer: develop a compelling wearable category strategy that delivers market-leading customer value;
- Drive Category P&L success (category revenue and contribution margin), developing and leading the execution of plans that lead to agreed-upon growth and contribution metrics.
- Ensure the plans and execution enable a compelling customer experience in line with the brand standards.
- Ensure the execution of the plans meet portfolio strategic and financial goals.
- Manage overall portfolio, product lifecycles, and pricing strategies for category.
- Leverage customer insights, usability studies, market trends, and competitive analysis to develop the vision, product roadmap & product definitions.
- Collaborate with design, engineering, marketing, supply chain, and sales to identify creative solutions to difficult challenges and to reach the optimal balance between the vision of the user experience with time to market and product cost.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Product and Operational Management.
- At least 10 years of product management experience, ideally with experience in the software domain, business management, or other related experience at scale, including a successful track record of leading teams through product launches, from idea to prototype to revenue.
- Team and Cross Functional Leadership.
- Proven leader, motivator and mentor. Entrepreneurial and unafraid to roll up sleeves.
- Demonstrated experience working within a large organization and carving a unified path through collaboration in a matrixed environment.
CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES
Collaborating and Influencing
- Invites, listens to, and uses the opinions and perspectives of product managers and other internal stakeholders, particularly design, engineering, marketing, supply chain and sales teams.
- Promotes ongoing, thoughtful dialogue, anticipating the impact of words and actions to gain commitment and buy-in from internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Adapts own approach to the audience, anticipating impact of words and actions, preparing for possible resistance and responding in an appropriate style, using a range of influencing styles.
- Resolves conflicts by discussing individual issues with each person.
- Checks with both sides of a discussion to ensure a common understanding.
- Takes initiative to maintain both internal and external contacts.
Driving Results
- Acts to surpass goals, seizing opportunities to push the envelope.
- Sets continually higher goals that are ambitious but realistic for self and product team, geared to organizational objectives.
- Focuses on new opportunities and innovations to enable business development targets to be exceeded.
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