Sr. Product Manager

About the role

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to safeguarding lives with cutting-edge sensing and threat detection technologies. Our arsenal includes advanced surveillance sensors, handheld devices, unmanned vehicles, lasers, and more solutions that increase operational effectiveness for warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams. We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense industry.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Build product specifications from customer and market needs into go-to-market products.
• Proactively manage and guide the product development, product release and market adoption of best-in-class FLIR Detection radiation products.
• Clearly define and manage the Product Roadmap.
• Develop market knowledge that drives market differentiation of each new product development or upgrade and as needed, support of sales efforts.

Define FLIR Detection Radiation Markets

• Support the development of winning market strategies.
• Be the expert on Radiation product positions, price performance trade-space, win strategies, relevant market trends.
• Understand trends and market developments, and government programs to ensure products exceed the expectations of our customers.
• Understand intricacies and trade-space of domestic, European, Asia Pacific, and Rest or World markets to drive universally appealing products and market positions.

Define FLIR Detection Radiation Products

• Gather and prioritize product requirements by on-going visits to customers, industry experts, and qualifying government agencies.
• Work with customers, sales team, and technical experts to provide feature definition for the development & design of new products.
• Work directly with Product Development and Manufacturing teams to understand technical feasibility resource loading to ensure properly scoped Product Development efforts.
• Define Product Roadmap for FLIR Detection radiation product line.
• Work with General Manager, Director of Products, VP Programs, VP of Sales, and VP of Engineering to prioritize R&D expenditures ensuring product development efforts are in line with business strategy.

Rack and Stack

• Manage the FLIR Detection Radiation Phase Gate Process.
• Propose and track overall product development process and budgets to ensure success.
• Set Product pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals.
• Participate in the generation of essential third-party lab data and operational tests.
• Support a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute.
• Oversee successful product launches.

Manage FLIR Detection Radiation Products

• Brief and train the sales team and key distributors.
• Support sales team with key customers and programs.
• Determine lifecycle and obsolescence of products under management.
• Aid in Market and Product Specific Technical Writing.
• Aid in Drafting (as needed) and final review of technical product manuals to ensure quality and branding standards are maintained.
• Participate in Thought Leadership in the Radiation community, drafting journal articles and copy for some promotional materials.

Outreporting to Upper Management

• Prepare weekly outreports on Project, Product and Market Status Dashboards.
• Prepare for quarterly project and product reviews.
• Lead strategic discussions on Market, Product, and Feature development.
• Present Radiation Product updates at quarterly Division review meetings and discuss strategy.
• Present Radiation Strategy (as requested) at the quarterly Product Review Boards.

Job Qualifications And Requirements

• Bachelors and Advanced degrees in Science or Engineering preferred.
• Strong background or knowledge of Radiation Physics or similar.
• 5 or more years of applicable experience in product development or marketing of radiation sensors.
• 3-5 or more years of experience in product launches.
• CBRNE or Nuclear Safety market experience is required.
• Demonstrated experience in development, sales, or marketing of technical products.
• Proven capability to champion a product from development to launch.
• High energy, direct, proactive with strong vision casting and leadership skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate and interact with customers, team members, and corporate management.
• Ability to quickly reorient with new information and direction in an engaging market.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications, in particular Excel and Project.
• Technical research experience in the field of CBRNe sensors is desired.

Additional Information

• Must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.
• Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer.