Senior Product Manager, Hardware

Description

The company makes a smart ring and connected app that show people their readiness, activity and sleep quality, with daily insights and practical steps.

It is a fast-growing company that gives its team what they need to do good work, in the office or away from it.

This role owns and grows the Charging portfolio, driving a standout product experience alongside a global, cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Own a hardware product and aim to raise its business impact and customer satisfaction by solving customer and business problems.
• Build a distinctive product narrative grounded in deep customer insight.
• Spot and fix product issues at every stage of the lifecycle.
• Run market research, competitor analysis, and qualitative and quantitative user studies.
• Write and maintain product requirements documents, check progress regularly, and drive timely decisions.
• Guide a product from concept to end of life, working closely with engineering and design to deliver on time and at high quality.
• Rank features, options and improvements by weighing cost, timeline and experience trade-offs.
• Keep stakeholders across the organization informed on priorities, plans, progress and challenges, with clear, organized updates.
• Work with designers, engineers, scientists, marketers and analysts, and partner with software product managers.
• Help shape the vision, strategy and roadmap for the hardware portfolio, including next-generation products.
• Prepare go-to-market readiness by writing positioning and pricing and overseeing overall product readiness.

Requirements

• 7+ years in product management, with a record of shipping high-impact products that customers rate highly.
• Solid grasp of hardware development, including design phases, manufacturing, materials, compliance and quality.
• Experience with connected electronics, covering connectivity, compute, battery, firmware and software features.
• Have taken hardware products from concept to commercial launch with little supervision.
• Can turn consumer, technology and business insights into a clear, data-backed story that wins over internal and external audiences.
• Can quickly analyze problems and devise creative solutions under pressure and tight constraints.
• Get things done with empathy, intelligence and drive, even in tricky situations, and roll up your sleeves when needed.
• Write and present well, leading clear thinking and sound decisions in large groups.
• Stay optimistic and move people and projects forward, with genuine kindness and thoughtfulness.
• Want to do work as well as it can possibly be done, try new things, and learn fast from failed experiments.
• Wearables expertise.
• Health sensing experience.
• Track record of managing multiple projects at once.

Conditions

Work is hybrid or in the office, with offices in San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. Employees in other major cities, such as Boston and New York, occasionally meet informally at local co-working spaces.

Pay follows a market-based approach that may vary by location. US locations fall into tiers based on a cost of labor index for the area. Most offers land nearer the start of the range, while final pay depends on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity and market conditions. Ranges may change.

Region 1: $151,000 - $178,000.

Region 2: $139,000 - $163,000.

Region 3: $128,000 - $150,000.

A recruiter confirms your region based on your US location.

Candidates residing in Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV) or Wisconsin (WI) are not being considered.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants regardless of protected characteristics.

Benefits

• The company cares about well-being, and every employee has a ring of their own.
• Competitive salary and equity packages.
• Health, dental and vision insurance, plus mental health resources.
• A ring for you, and employee discounts for friends and family.
• 20 days of paid time off, 13 paid holidays and 8 days of flexible wellness time off.
• Paid sick leave and parental leave.