Senior Hardware Product Manager

About the role

Perry Weather is a company that helps organizations make faster, safer decisions by integrating hyperlocal weather data into their operations. They operate a fleet of 6,000+ devices in various sectors including Fortune 500 companies, professional sports leagues, commercial builders, schools, cities, and golf courses. The role of Senior Hardware Product Manager involves owning the roadmap, lifecycle, and development process for connected weather, sensing, and alerting devices.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, lifecycle, and product strategy for Perry Weather’s connected hardware portfolio.
• Build and operate a practical NPI process from concept and prototype through validation, production readiness, and launch.
• Define clear product requirements and drive early prototyping before engineering starts building, including customer needs, field realities, success criteria, validation plans, and launch requirements.
• Lead cross-functional hardware development through influence across electrical engineering, firmware, IoT, mechanical engineering, software, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, support, and install teams.
• Drive stronger validation and field testing before launch, ensuring products are reliable, manufacturable, installable, serviceable, and ready for real-world conditions.
• Own the product side of fleet health and hardware lifecycle management, using field data, support feedback, install learnings, RMAs, and failure patterns to prioritize improvements, redesigns, replacements, or sunsetting decisions.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure hardware integrates cleanly with the Perry Weather software platform, including onboarding, diagnostics, connectivity, device behavior, fleet health telemetry, and customer workflows.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Supply Chain on production readiness, vendor considerations, BOM/SKU readiness, manufacturing handoffs, packaging, and serviceability.
• Support hardware GTM readiness across positioning, pricing and packaging inputs, sales enablement, install documentation, support workflows, replacement considerations, training, and launch readiness.
• Make tradeoffs across customer value, reliability, software integration, installability, speed, cost, manufacturability, and future extensibility — with a bias toward hardware that delivers measurable customer and business impact in the field.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building, launching, or scaling connected hardware products, ideally in hardware-enabled SaaS, IoT, enterprise platforms, industrial systems, rugged devices, environmental sensing, or similar environments.
• Strong NPI experience, with a practical understanding of concept, prototype, EVT/DVT/PVT, validation, production readiness, and launch.
• Technical fluency across sensors, connectivity, firmware behavior, embedded systems, power, enclosures, reliability, calibration, and field performance — enough to work credibly with engineering and hold the right product line.
• A field-facing product mindset: comfortable with customer sites, installs, support issues, device failures, sales conversations, and real-world deployment constraints.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, with the ability to give engineering teams focus, clarity, priorities, requirements, and launch direction without directly managing them.
• Operational awareness across manufacturing, supply chain, vendors, BOMs, packaging, serviceability, installability, and lifecycle economics.
• A builder mindset: fast enough for a high-growth company, disciplined enough to reduce painful hardware rework, and pragmatic enough to add process without creating bureaucracy.
• Commercial judgment, with the ability to connect hardware decisions to customer value, sales readiness, attach potential, pricing and packaging inputs, supportability, and long-term business impact.