Senior Product Manager - Earbuds

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Define and champion a winning earbuds category strategy that delivers market-leading customer value along with strategic portfolio value
• Drive Category P&L success (category revenue and contribution margin), developing and leading the execution of multiple programs that meet financial targets
• Lead cross-functional teams through the design, development and execution of multiple product lines that meet consumer needs and deliver on brand
• Manage overall portfolio, product lifecycles, and pricing strategies for the earbuds category
• Leverage customer insights, usability studies, market trends, and competitive analysis to develop the vision, product roadmap & product definitions
• Collaborate with design, engineering, marketing, supply chain, and sales to identify creative solutions to challenges and balance user experience with time to market and product cost

Requirements

• Customer obsession: enthusiasm for understanding and prioritizing customer needs in product decisions
• A strong sense of ownership and pride in your products
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to make complex things simple
• Leadership through influence, with exceptional interpersonal skills and positivity under pressure
• Data-driven decisiveness: knowing when to make a call and when to seek more information
• Independent thinking and good judgment, with a track record of being right and willingness to be wrong
• Poise and confidence in public speaking, able to represent the brand in product demos to retail buyers and press
• Self-motivated and self-directed, capable of multitasking, prioritizing, and managing time efficiently
• At least 5 years of experience, including two or more of the following: MBA or advanced degree relevant to product development, engineering, or customer research; experience as a product manager or customer-centric technical leader; experience in management consulting or similar strategic environment; consumer electronics expertise including hardware launch

Nice to Have

• Experience in management consulting or a similarly rigorous strategic environment
• Consumer electronics expertise including hardware launch

Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree relevant to product development, engineering, or customer research
• Experience as a product manager or customer-centric technical leader
• Experience in management consulting or a similar strategic environment
• Consumer electronics expertise including hardware launch