Tendril Hardware Product Manager
Company Description
Tendril focuses on bringing 21st century energy efficiency to the energy industry. Our technology facilitates dialogue between consumers and suppliers through an end-to-end energy ecosystem that connects consumer devices (like thermostats) to the Tendril Energy Management System and utility back office applications. This enables consumers to gain a greater understanding and control of their energy consumption, and allows energy suppliers to establish a deeper relationship with their customers and deploy smart energy conservation programs. With an innovative, open technology approach, Tendril is uniquely positioned to address the macro trends of energy efficiency and connectedness that will generate new revenue streams and drive the ¡§Internet of Things¡¨ economy to critical mass.
Job Description
The Hardware Product Manager (HPM) will be responsible for all aspects of the product management domain for Tendril¡¦s hardware product line including product planning and specification, product marketing, working closely with Product and Marketing leadership to establish an industry-leading vision, dynamic design and aggressive roadmap for our next generation Energy Management System.This includes requirements gathering and definition, product requirements documentation, user story and use case development, on-going prioritization, market delivery, market messaging and launch, market support and iterative improvements to the product roadmap. The HPM must display a technical proficiency with hardware product development and hardware product lifecycle management, for products in complex distributed networking and/or wireless environments.Ideally, the HPM will have experience in defining and developing consumer hardware products, including consumer-oriented human interfaces and industrial design. The HPM must develop and maintain a high level of rapport with the engineering team, sales force, and other team members, and must work closely with engineering project management and software product management.The HPM will work closely with Tendril ODMs, CMs, and other partners to deliver on the hardware roadmap.The HPM is ultimately measured on the timely delivery of product, product sales growth percentages and gross margin(s).The HPM reports to the Director of Hardware Products.
Job Responsibilities
1. Work closely with Product and Marketing leadership to establish the product vision, dynamic design and aggressive product roadmap that will deliver against customer and corporate milestones, with clear objectives for product evolution.
2. Create and document clear product requirements which elaborate on high-level feature and functionality requirements ¡V from both customer and industry perspective ¡V providing Tendril engineering, ODMs, and CMs a prioritized feature set for development and implementation.
3. Customer Advocate -- Ensure that user expectations and needs are understood, communicated, managed and ultimately met through the product evolution.
4. Provide expertise in competitive product evaluation and competitive differentiation including packaging, pricing and product definition.Gather market intelligence as to market need and translate into product capabilities, features and pricing recommendations.
5. For Tendril¡¦s hardware products, support product launches by creating product messaging consistent with corporate positioning, providing content for MarComm materials such as datasheets and webpages, support outbound marketing efforts such as tradeshows, sales calls, and demos, and provide definition of and outlines for product training for both internal and external users.
Critical Success factors
Accountability, creative problem solving, keen listening, communication and relationship building, time management, proactive project review, thorough understanding of priorities, teamed closely with follow-through, organization, leadership, teamwork and taking direction.
Job Qualifications
The candidate will possess:
ľ At least 5 years in a hardware product management position including networked and or wireless products.
ľ An engineering background (at least a BS, if not an MS, in an engineering discipline. EE, CS or equivalent preferred).
ľ At least 7 years of experience in the business/working world.
The candidate will ideally possess:
ľ Two or more years working with consumer-oriented hardware products.
ƒæ Experience with ¡§systems-level¡¨ products: integrated hardware, software, and network environments
ľ An MBA.
ľ Experience with wireless and/or ZigBee technology.
ľ Experience and comfort with startup environment.
It is NOT ok to contact this poster with commercial interests.
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