Hardware Product Manager

Description

• Act as a cross-functional leader, aligning engineering, supply chain, manufacturing and commercial teams.
• Learn detailed technical requirements and specifications across product lines.
• Translate technical concepts into clear business value for internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the NPI stage gates for specified products ensuring development is tracking towards a successful product launch and meeting the product’s MVP.
• Define product requirements and specifications based on customer needs, market research, and regulatory/standards and compliance (IEEE, UL, NEC, IEC).
• Develop and maintain the product roadmap, balancing short-term milestones with long-term growth opportunities.
• Develop technical collateral including product specs, whitepapers, and sales enablement tools
• Conduct in-depth customer discovery, market research, and competitive analysis.
• Support commercial efforts as the subject matter expert for your product line, including specs, configurations, customization potential, and roadmap direction.
• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI.
• Bring a product mindset that balances customer needs, technical feasibility, and business goals.
• Ramp up on VEIR’s product portfolio and refine business cases for upcoming launches.
• Be energized by building structure in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Define the market for potential new VEIR products and solutions; understand and present market analysis including market definition, market sizing, growth rates, economic drivers, and technical viability.
• Plan and execute product specific promotional activities in partnership with marketing including trade shows, new product introduction, social media, videos, and content marketing.
• Define value propositions and messaging for new product introductions.
• Partner with commercial & applications teams to provide detailed technical product knowledge to customers contributing to VEIR’s commercial success for specified product lines.

Requirements

• Experience with energy infrastructure, power electronics hardware or data center solutions is a plus.
• Experience conducting voice of customer (VoC) discovery interviews, competitive analysis, and use case validation for industrial hardware products.
• You have excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills across all levels of staff and with external stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams, including electrical, mechanical, cryogenics, and control systems. Experience working with utilities and medium- to high-voltage power distribution or transmission infrastructure is highly preferred.
• Be comfortable working on complex, first-of-their-kind hardware products with evolving requirements.
• 2-5 years of product management experience, ideally in industrial hardware products or complex systems development.
• Familiarity with phase gate or stage-gate development processes and experience driving cross-functional product development timelines.
• Direct experience managing NPI lifecycles for industrial hardware products from concept through launch.
• Excel at managing ambiguity and making data-informed decisions to prioritize product direction.
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering related field. (advanced degree preferred)
• Highly motivated, energetic, mature, and detail-oriented with a positive approach to problem solving.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance