Senior Upstream Product Manager

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Upstream Product Manager - Connected Products who thrives at the intersection of technology, customer insight, and business strategy. This is an upstream marketing role where you'll identify market opportunities, define future products, and partner with engineering to bring innovative connected solutions to life.

Responsibilities

• Develop product strategy for hardware, firmware, and connected software solutions.
• Identify market opportunities through Voice of Customer research, field engagement, and competitive analysis.
• Partner with engineering to define product requirements, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Build business cases that guide product investment decisions.
• Lead products from concept through commercialization.
• Develop go-to-market strategies and successful product launches.
• Collaborate across engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and operations to deliver exceptional customer solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or another technical discipline.
• 10+ years of upstream product management, product marketing, or product strategy experience in a new product environment.
• Strong technical background with experience working on connected or IoT product experience with hardware, firmware and software solutions.
• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle and proven success bringing technical products from concept through commercialization.
• Expertise in translating Voice of Customer (VOC), market research, and product strategy into product requirements and understanding tradeoffs, priorities, costs, etc.
• Outstanding communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills. Ability to simplify complex technical concepts into compelling customer value propositions.

Why this role?

This aligns with the role's responsibility for shaping the portfolio across hardware, firmware, and connected software while partnering closely with engineering throughout product development.