Product Manager Visibility Solutions

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Product Manager Visibility Solutions!

Location: Austin, TX

Job : 43297

The Product Manager – Visibility Solutions, is responsible for defining and driving the strategy, development, and lifecycle performance of a comprehensive solution portfolio that integrates hardware, software, and services into cohesive, market‑ready offerings. This role ensures that each solution delivers measurable customer outcomes while advancing the company’s strategic and financial objectives.

Who are we? HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. We are a high‑tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees. Identification Technologies (IDT) is creating trusted identities for IoT applications through Smart Components and Enabling Services.

• Ensuring the portfolio reflects strategic markets, customer value, and profitable growth opportunities.
• Prioritizing based on market needs by regularly assessing customer problems and emerging trends to align the portfolio to high‑growth, high‑relevance segments.
• Defining and validating solution‑market fit by confirming how the integrated solution (hardware + software + services) delivers measurable outcomes.
• Differentiating segment coverage by ensuring portfolio elements provide clear value across verticals or customer tiers (entry, mid, premium).
• Evaluating lifecycle value by considering revenue, customer lifetime value, and retention contributions.
• Maintaining portfolio health by balancing innovation, enhancement, and legacy phase‑outs.
• Building interoperable, scalable, and modular solutions that deliver outcomes, not just components.
• Driving platform and modular design through common frameworks that enable re‑use (software APIs, hardware platforms, data layers).
• Developing an interoperability roadmap with clear integration paths for ecosystem partners (sensors, gateways, middleware, analytics).
• Harmonizing technologies by reducing duplication and creating standardized solution building blocks.
• Enabling the ecosystem by defining partner interfaces and certification processes to expand solution compatibility.
• Optimizing profitable growth and disciplined resource allocation.
• Prioritizing investments based on ROI, linking decisions to financial return, market impact, and strategic value.
• Managing portfolio P&L accountability by tracking revenue, margin, and attach‑rate performance by solution family.
• Rationalizing low‑value SKUs or overlapping offers and sun setting them appropriately.
• Aligning resources across R&D, marketing, and sales enablement with top strategic bets.
• Ensuring the portfolio can be effectively sold, delivered, and supported as a complete solution.
• Packaging solutions through bundles or subscription models that simplify buying and deliver full outcomes.
• Equipping sales enablement with value propositions, pricing, and competitive differentiation at the solution level.
• Coordinating cross‑functional readiness with sales, delivery, and partners for scalable deployment.
• Maintaining reference architectures as validated solution templates for repeatable customer use cases.
• Ensuring solutions create measurable value for customers.
• Defining outcome metrics using customer‑centric KPIs (uptime, throughput, safety, cost avoidance, etc.).
• Creating feedback loops using customer input, telemetry, and usage analytics to guide enhancements.
• Measuring ease of deployment, integration complexity, and time‑to‑value.
• Integrating sustainability and compliance considerations (lifecycle, ESG, regulatory) into solution design.
• Enabling the portfolio team and ecosystem to deliver consistently and adaptively.
• Driving cross‑functional governance through clear decision frameworks for prioritization and resource allocation.
• Maintaining transparency with portfolio dashboards (revenue by segment, attach rate, innovation mix).
• Applying agile program management to deliver solution value iteratively.
• Collaborating with partners by aligning roadmaps and lifecycle management with strategic technology or service partners.