Designers Fountain, a company of designing, manufacturing, and distributing quality lighting products to the residential market located in Rancho Dominguez, California is currently seeking a high caliber Product Manager.
Our ideal candidate has excellent communication skills, experience within the lighting industry, and able to work in a team environment. You must be self-motivated, and be able to work collaboratively with members of our design, engineering, marketing, sales, sales support, and operation teams to ensure continuity in product offering and company goals.
Job Responsibilities & Duties:
- Develop products and analyze product designs to meet required price point for target channels, ensuring that feature, quality, and cost objectives are met.
- Collaborate with Engineering Department to define product specifications and ensure expected cost, performance and reliability is achieved.
- Manage the development of new products ensuring requested product development time frame is met by working closely with related departments in the U.S. and China.
- Utilize CAD for product creation, improvement and value engineering projects. Maintain and update complete documentation including part and assembly drawings, BOMS, instruction sheets, etc.
- Work with Engineering to ensure compliance with third party certifications such as cUL, cETL, CSA, ENERGY STAR, Lighting Facts, etc.
- Review and approve prototypes and work with related departments to find alternate solutions when needed.
- Work in conjunction with Q.C Departments to resolve product quality concerns.
Requirements:
- BS degree in Mechanical Engineering is highly preferred or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of leadership track experience within the lighting industry.
- Professional work experience in Consumer SSL/LED lighting fixture design highly preferred
- Strong mechanical aptitude, critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Self-driven and able to work under general project direction
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Able to handle multiple projects concurrently and function in a collaborative environment
- Working knowledge or basic manufacturing and fabrication methods preferred, e.g. die casting, injection molding, extrusion, stamping, assembly, etc.
- Exceptional project management skills and the ability to manage and meet multiple deadlines in a fast paced environment. 10-15% travel (domestic/international) as required.
- Excellent computer skills including MS Word, Excel, Outlook. Knowledge of AutoCAD is required
Designers Fountain is a rock-solid company that offers excellent benefits including:
Comprehensive medical
Dental and vision program
Life insurance
401(k) with company match
Paid vacation
10 paid holidays
Please email resumes to [email protected] along with salary history.