Product Manager
Location: Austin, TX, USA or Burnaby, BC, Canada
Cooledge Lighting is developing a revolutionary approach to the exploding solid state lighting space with the industry’s first LED lighting sheet. Cooledge Lighting is preparing the commercial launch of our proprietary flexible lighting sheet to target the US$100B global lighting market. Our innovative contribution to the emerging LED space eliminates many of the constraints and challenges that existing LED systems impose. Cooledge’s LED lighting sheet requires no additional thermal management, is physically flexible, highly efficient, low glare, and delivers long life.
The lighting industry is entering a decade of rapid conversion and expansion as LEDs penetrate all of the industry’s traditional lighting applications. The positive environmental and financial impact surrounding energy and maintenance savings delivered by SSL technology is unprecedented.
Prioritizing the development and commercial efforts to support the company’s overall strategy and goals is critical to our success. Analytical support based on market research and on-going customer/market feedback will guide the organization’s evolution.
The Product Manager (PM) is responsible for working with the EVP Sales & Marketing on all aspects of product planning and execution, from development to end-of-life. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company. The PM will build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on industry experience and contact with customers. The PM must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. The PM must enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader market. In addition, the PM will drive the product life-cycle from requirements, through specification, to development with the engineering team. The PM will be responsible for communicating market needs and setting strategic and tactical priorities for the engineering team in Burnaby, BC. The PM will also be required to work with manufacturing and operations to ensure a smooth transition from development to manufacturing, and then sustain communications with manufacturing to deal with inventory, stocking, change management and obsolescence of the product. The PM will own the product forecasts and ensure that the sales team is well trained to sell and support the product in the market place.
The PM must be able to communicate with all areas of the company and will work with the engineering team to define product release requirements. The PM will work with marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. The PM will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for the product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers.
Role of the Product Manager:
- Manage the Cooledge product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders on the creation of a product roadmap .
- Perform consumer needs analysis, market sizing, and competitive analysis to determine which products will address key consumer opportunities.
- Gather, synthesize and prioritize market needs and business requirements.
- Transform business requirements into detailed product requirements and lead cross-functional teams in product definition and design.
- Create detailed product requirements that describe the products and features to be built.
- Partner with our Engineering team throughout the creative, build and implementation phases to ensure high quality, on time releases that balances consumer and business needs.
- Act as product evangelist and solicit feedback to quickly build consensus around decisions.
- Ensure future product releases reflect experience gained from external market activities, customer discussions, usage analysis, competitive response and market research.
- Analyze and articulate emerging technologies and market trends.
Education and Experience required
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Marketing.
- MBA or business management degree preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of product management experience.
- Experience in Solid State Lighting industry strongly preferred.
- Experience working closely with engineering, sales, operations and business development teams.
- Must be solution and team oriented with the ability to build trust and influence others.
- Self-motivated, able to proactively work toward a goal independently.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong proficiency with financial models and spreadsheets.
- Project and customer-management skills.
- Excellent business acumen.
Personal Attributes required
- Excellent communication skills (presentation, written, verbal) of both technical and non-technical issues.
- Strong Leadership skills in a flat organization.
- Excellent teamwork skills.
- Comfortable presenting to senior staff.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, progressive dynamic environment.
- Self-directed, highly motivated, results-driven with flexibility to work on different projects.
Additional Information
- Position requires substantial travel domestically and internationally.
Contact:
Cooledge offers a competitive compensation package and a business culture which rewards performance. For additional information on Cooledge, please visit our website at www.cooledgelighting.com.
If you meet all of our requirements and wish to apply for this position, please forward a resume and cover letter to [email protected]. Please ensure to include the job title – Product Manager – in the subject line.
Note:
We would like to thank everyone who applies, but only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Thank you very much for your interest in Cooledge Lighting.
No telephone or agency solicitations please!
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