Product Manager; Electronics

Requirements

• Strong candidates may come from Product Management, Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or hardware engineering with program ownership experience
• 3+ years owning consumer hardware products or programs end-to-end
• Direct experience working with contract manufacturers, ideally in China or Asia
• Engineering degree preferred but not required
• Track record of holding schedules - dates don't slip without you knowing first
• Comfortable making tradeoffs with incomplete data and defending the call later
• You get sh
  * t done when things are messy, ambiguous, or broken
• Clear written communication - your specs and vendor emails leave no ambiguity

• We're hiring a Product Manager to own hardware products end-to-end from concept through mass production, including the daily vendor execution that makes them ship on time
• You'll own specs, schedules, and the calls when cost, performance, and timeline collide
• This role is title-flexible
• We care about what you've shipped, not what your title was
• Growth:
  Profitable growth with 5M+ customers and international expansion
• Mon - Fri, 9 AM - 6 PM EST
• Team:
  This role reports to the VP of Product and partners closely with design, operations, product marketing, and leadership. You will be pivotal to drive development across a number of key products
• Own hardware products through EVT, DVT, PVT, and mass production
• Manage day-to-day relationships with our overseas manufacturers and engineering partners
• Drive design and component decisions when tradeoffs need to be called
• Translate customer needs into specs, PRDs, and success metrics
• Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, , firmware, ops, marketing, and CX
• Partner with product marketing on positioning, pricing inputs, and launch readiness
• Monitor post-launch performance and feed learnings into the next cycle
• Sample projects may include the below
• Managing vendors to remain on track, on budget, and keeping product quality strong
• Aligning a DSP build with firmware and locking the freeze date with our ODM
• Driving a cost-down review with the factory on a wearable in DVT
• Working with marketing on launch sequencing for a Q4 retail drop