Through our high standards of customer care and protection, brinks home ™ is a proven leader in smart home technology and residential security industriesOur service is guided by our relentless pursuit of protecting what matters mostWe work to provide security and peace of mind to our nearly 1 million customers across north america.we are currently seeking a senior product manager, hardware and embedded software to join our brinks home family in the product and strategy organization.
Position overview
As a senior product manager, hardware and embedded software, you will be responsible for product roadmap, feature prioritization, competitive analysis, and technology selection for home security, smart home and iot products from ideation stage through product launch.
Product and strategy organization is a dynamic team within brinks that combines the agility and speed of a startup, with the resources of an established companyWe are solving complex problems that need out of box thinking and the desire to get your hands dirtyYou must be a natural collaborator who is equally comfortable talking technology with engineers, user experience with designers, positioning with product marketers, numbers with finance, and strategy with senior leadershipYou must have designed custom boards and/or developed embedded software for several years before transitioning to product management rolesThe role is designed for an experienced candidate who can operate with a great degree of ambiguity, and has experience in delivering complex hw and embedded sw products using open-source solutionsYou will report to the senior director, product and strategy.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
Drive detailed product roadmap across different release cycles with well thought-out prioritization plan that strikes the right balance between feature depth and breadth, competitive differentiation, time-to-market advantages, and revenue opportunity
Provide detailed specifications to design and develop system on modules (som) and software stack on resource-constrained devices running embedded os in home security, smart home and iot product lines
Provide technical support for legacy sensors and devices.
Work closely with the product development team to ensure compliance with product specifications, and meeting deliverable milestones through agile sprints
Conduct due diligence to select oems, odms and pcb manufacturers, and work closely with the selected partners to design and develop products from proof-of-concept stage through product launch
Understand, research, and follow the technical trends in home security, smart home and iot industries, as well as our competitors’ capabilitiesAssess emerging technologies, products and companies to measure their potential value or threat to brinksMake recommendations on which new technologies to invest in or leverage through buy, build or partnership decisions.
Serve as a product evangelist and subject matter expert to product development, sales, and marketing organizations.
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science or other closely related fields
Minimum 5 years of product management experience in hardware and embedded software design, with at least another 5 years of hands-on product development experience prior to that period
Experience with designing custom pcb in earlier career stages before switching to product management roles.
Experience developing embedded microcontroller or microprocessor code in c or c++ prior to transitioning into product management roles.
Experience developing hardware and software for smart home products, such as smart light, smart thermostat, hone automation server, surveillance camera, iot gateway, video doorbell and smart lock
Experience in building event monitoring and alarm handling systems through mqtt and prometheus
Extensive background in utilizing open-source solutions for building commercial products
Other duties as assigned
Preferred qualifications
Experience building home automation servers with open-source frameworks, such as esphome, openhab, home assistant, fhem or tasmota on android or linux platforms
Experience in integrating smart home solutions with automated voce assistants
Background in video analytics, computer vision and machine learning with scripting experience in python
Prior experience designing custom boards with neural processors capable of executing ai tasks on iot devices for edge computing applications
Experience in building flow architecture through node-red, device interfaces through openapi, and serving data through time-series databases, such as influxdb or timescaledb
Experience with electro-mechanical packaging, 3d and cad design, ul and fcc certification process
If eligible, we offer a competitive benefits package including medical/dental/vision, term life insurance, paid vacation/holidays, and a 401 (k) with company match.
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