Fieldpiece is looking to solve the problem of developing and launching new, innovative products that delight customers in the HVACR industry. This involves identifying opportunities, ideating solutions, managing the product lifecycle, and ensuring market leadership through continuous improvement and adaptation to industry trends.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering, product management, and/or program management in an R&D environment delivering new products.
- Technical fluency in engaging with engineering teams and discussing design and features.
- Experience with feature prioritization, trade-offs, and roadmap ownership.
- Proven business acumen to add customer value, build and prioritize roadmaps, justify and budget projects.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach.
- Ability to synthesize complex problems into simple, elegant solutions.
- Experience working with tools, instruments or the HVACR industry.
Responsibilities
- Define product vision and strategy to ideate, innovate and deliver best-in-class product solutions using data-driven insights.
- Be the product and application expert with strong technical know-how to understand, weigh, and improve the product’s technology, working principles, construction, features, and benefits against customer needs.
- Develop, prioritize, and manage the technology and product roadmaps by reimagining product lines to unlock new value.
- Influence, align, and work through cross-functional global teams and ODM partners to drive results.
- Analyze industry trends, customer feedback, usability studies, competitive environment, and business insights to inform product decisions.
- Advocate for customers by ensuring an intuitive, ease-of-use, engaging user experience.
- Enhance existing ODM supply partners and identify/vet new ODMs to expand capabilities for developing innovative products faster and better.
Other
- The ideal candidate is a hands-on, high impact leader who thrives on creating products that delight customers.
- You have a deep background in electrical engineering, product management, customer research and requirements, innovation, and P&L management.
- The Director owns the end-to-end product lifecycle: opportunity identification to ideation to product development to global market launch to periodic refreshes that sustains product leadership.
- You will work cross-functionally with engineering, global marketing, design, sales, ODM supply partners, and other key stakeholders to define product features, prove out suitable technologies, build roadmaps, and bring innovative solutions to market.
- The ideal candidate brings a unique combination of strategic vision, deep technical skills in electrical engineering, business acumen, and executional excellence.
- You’ll drive critical business decisions, influence senior leadership, solve ambiguous challenges, manage matrixed teams, and maximize the customer product experience.
- The position requires up to 30% travel.
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM field; MBA preferred.
- Experience influencing cross-functional teams and leadership in a fast-paced environment; resolves conflicts gracefully.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Entrepreneurial spirit with a curious, tenacious, hands-on approach.
- Willing and able to travel up to 30% to visit customers and ODM partners globally.
- Prior experience in developing products for an international market.
