Senior Hardware Product Manager

About Perry Weather

Perry Weather is the weather safety standard for organizations that operate outdoors. We combine on-site weather hardware with a software platform that automates alerts, siren activations, and safety decisions for more than 3,000 organizations - from the PGA of America, the NFL, and MLB to Turner Construction, thousands of school districts, cities, and golf courses. We've grown 80%+ annually for five consecutive years, and are continuing to grow.

We're headquartered in Dallas at The Centrum, in the Oak Lawn neighborhood, where our teams work together every day to help organizations make faster and safer decisions when weather puts people, assets, and operations at risk.

Perry Weather is looking for a Senior Hardware Product Manager to own the roadmap, lifecycle, and development process for our connected weather, sensing, and alerting devices.

We already operate a fleet of 6,000+ devices in the field and are growing quickly. As our hardware footprint scales, we need a stronger product development discipline: clearer requirements, better validation, tighter handoffs, and a more mature NPI process that helps us get hardware right before it reaches customers.

This role will work cross-functionally across hardware engineering, software engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, support, and install teams. You'll translate customer, market, and field needs into reliable, scalable hardware products that are easy to sell, install, service, replace, and support.

This is not a specs-and-status role. We're looking for someone who can own the path from problem to production - building the hardware development discipline Perry Weather needs to scale while still moving quickly.

• Own the roadmap, lifecycle, and product strategy for Perry Weather's connected hardware portfolio across weather, sensing, alerting, and field-deployable devices.
• Build and operate a practical NPI process from concept and prototype through validation, production readiness, and launch.
• Define clear product requirements and drive early prototyping before engineering starts building, including customer needs, field realities, success criteria, validation plans, and launch requirements.
• Lead cross-functional hardware development through influence across electrical engineering, firmware, IoT, mechanical engineering, software, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, support, and install teams.
• Drive stronger validation and field testing before launch, ensuring products are reliable, manufacturable, installable, serviceable, and ready for real-world conditions.
• Own the product side of fleet health and hardware lifecycle management, using field data, support feedback, install learnings, RMAs, and failure patterns to prioritize improvements, redesigns, replacements, or sun setting decisions.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure hardware integrates cleanly with the Perry Weather software platform, including onboarding, diagnostics, connectivity, device behavior, fleet health telemetry, and customer workflows.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Supply Chain on production readiness, vendor considerations, BOM/SKU readiness, manufacturing handoffs, packaging, and serviceability.
• Support hardware GTM readiness across positioning, pricing and packaging inputs, sales enablement, install documentation, support workflows, replacement considerations, training, and launch readiness.
• Make tradeoffs across customer value, reliability, software integration, installability, speed, cost, manufacturability, and future extensibility - with a bias toward hardware that delivers measurable customer and business impact in the field.

In your first year, you will:

• Launch 1-2 new hardware products from concept through validation, production readiness, and launch.
• Establish a clear NPI process with practical stage gates, ownership, requirements, validation criteria, and launch readiness standards.
• Improve reliability, quality, and field performance across existing devices.
• Make Perry Weather hardware easier to sell, install, support, service, and replace.
• Create a clearer hardware roadmap across new products, existing fleet improvements, field performance, and platform integration.
• Bring focus and clarity to the hardware engineering team while helping the company move faster with fewer costly hardware iterations.

• 7+ years of experience building, launching, or scaling connected hardware products, ideally in hardware-enabled SaaS, IoT,…