Job Description

Senior Manager/Director, PLM

- As a Senior Product Manager/Director, you will own the entire portfolio of these special smart switches and will lead a team of product managers to specify and launch the new products in this portfolio.

- You will interact with cross functional teams and contribute to the system level solution definition to ensure we meet the target system functionality and quality.

- Understand market, regulatory, and competitive dynamics.

- Own the end-to-end product development process, including business case definition, writing, and scoping product requirements, creating feature specifications, testing, and validating pre-release product.

- Manage and track product development process ensuring agile product development and responsiveness to evolving market needs.

- Own the Voice of the Customer. Prioritize features based on market demand and impact, get buy-in from all stakeholders.

- Own and write technical documentation to support market launches and work with engineering teams to ensure completeness and accuracy.

- Develop technical and sales support content for your portfolio of products.

- Interact with sales & account management teams and support them during key customer meetings by fulfilling the role of a domain expert.

- Manage relationships with partners including contract manufacturers, distribution partners, customers, and installers.

- Drive meetings with failure analysis engineers, customer support teams, and core engineering teams to ensure product meets quality and reliability targets.

- Define, track, and analyze metrics and measures for product performance.

- Capture and articulate product feedback from installers, homeowners, FAEs, electricians, DIY enthusiasts, industry professionals and more, to drive continuous improvement for your product portfolio.

- Identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share and improve user experience.

- Bachelors and/or master\'s in electrical engineering or Electronics Engineering

- 15+ years of professional experience in applications/systems engineering or product management

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Desire to work in a highly visible and critical role

- Ability to lead a large team of product managers

- Ability to influence stakeholders in a matrix organization

What would make you stand out?

- Experience with power switch products or battery energy storage products and/or PV inverter products in an engineering or [product management capacity

- Natural peer and team leadership skills

- Track record of defining new products and/or driving product launches

- An MBA from a reputed institution with prior experience in a similar portfolio or in leading product management teams in complex technical product verticals is a plus

Reports to : Director, Product Line Management

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