Technical Software Product Manager - PC Power/Performance and On-Device experiences
HP · Spring, TX · 1 mo ago
HybridMarketing$147k–$231k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Define the product vision and multi-year roadmap for the desktop optimization suite.
- Translate complex silicon telemetry into intuitive, actionable user interface dashboards.
- Design seamless user workflows for switching between automated AI tuning and manual control.
- Establish application success metrics for active user engagement and churn reduction.
- Write comprehensive Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) for local machine learning models.
- Specify reinforcement learning rewards that maximize hardware efficiency without lagging.
- Define the triggers for AI agents to proactively recommend background app hibernation.
- Ensure local on-device inference executes with zero audible fan noise or thermal throttling.
- Prioritize engineering backlogs for real-time application-sensing telemetry pipelines.
- Collaborate with QA to validate battery-saving metrics across diverse hardware form factors.
- Maintain user data privacy guardrails for all local profiling and behavioral analytics.
Ai Agent & Feature Execution
- Define the triggers for AI agents to proactively recommend background app hibernation.
- Ensure local on-device inference executes with zero audible fan noise or thermal throttling.
Performance & Telemetry Validation
- Prioritize engineering backlogs for real-time application-sensing telemetry pipelines.
- Collaborate with QA to validate battery-saving metrics across diverse hardware form factors.
- Monitor application footprint to guarantee the software itself uses minimal CPU, GPU, NPU and DRAM.
- Manage user data privacy guardrails for all local profiling and behavioral analytics.
Required Experience
- Educational background: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- Product experience: Minimum 5 years shipping consumer or enterprise desktop software.
- Domain expertise: Proven track record with Windows system utilities or performance apps.
- AI background: Practical experience deploying on-device ML models or small language models (SLMs).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing software that interacts directly with OEM firmware or driver APIs.
- Familiarity with cross-platform desktop frameworks or native Windows desktop development.
- Direct experience leveraging DirectML, ONNX Runtime, or Windows Copilot Runtime frameworks.
- Background in building system tools for PC gaming performance or creator workflows.
Pay & Benefits
The pay range for this role is $147,050 to $230,850 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Benefits include:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure, 11 paid holidays, additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)