Title: Product Manager III

Location: Irvine, CA

Type: Contract

Our client is seeking a Product Manager III with TV Device Hardware experience who will be responsible for identifying and creating product requirements and taking ownership from initial concept through delivery.

Key Accountabilities:

• Will need to understand existing processes and how they will impact the end customers and create new approaches.
• Work closely with large organizations and cross-functional teams.
• Lead engagements with OEM/ODM and 3rd-party design partners, and ensure specs and features are clearly defined and understood.
• Lead workstream with engineering team, internal stakeholders, and external partners on hardware design efficiency and cost down initiatives.
• Understand and clearly communicate product technical requirements and features to 3rd-party design and manufacturing partners. Create and maintain relationship with partners.
• Assist in defining test acceptance criteria and assess issue prioritization against business RICE objectives.
• Gather and analyze Voice of the Customer information to determine new product features addition or improvements.
• Work closely with engineering, development, quality, and support teams to create and re-define feature requirements.
• Communicate and distill information to guide the team in product direction and managing customer priorities and trade-offs.
• Track program risks and help drive mitigation through deep understanding of technical implications of decision and wide knowledge base.
• Discuss technical concepts and evaluate opportunistic product ideas.
• Perform market research, competitive and teardown analysis. Maintain updated view of key competitive changes. Maintain pulse on future trend of manufacturing and hardware technologies in the TV industry.
• Manage and plan product lifecycle from conception, planning, and launch to EOL.
• Partner with GTM to improve product delivery to customer and drive customer satisfaction.

Required Skills:

• Ability to understand customer behavior and needs and then translate that into product requirements.
• Ability to take a deep dive into technical considerations as needed.
• Ability to serve as Functional Product Lead.
• Experience with Global Platform, hardware design efficiency, and maintaining Device-RDK Stack alignment roadmap.
• 5-8 years of experience needed.