Senior Technical Product Manager

Prisma-Photonics is a rapidly growing startup company, developing the next-generation smart-infrastructure solution based on novel fiber-sensing technology (smart roads, smart cities, perimeters, and grid monitoring, etc.). The company offers an award-winning disruptive solution; a “sensor free” approach to smart infrastructure. The company is VC backed and in the revenues stage.

Combining pioneering technology in optical fiber sensing with state-of-the-art machine learning, we help prevent environmental disasters, protect human lives, and keep critical energy and transportation backbones running smoothly.

We are now hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager, to join our Product line. You will be responsible for a multi-disciplinary product which includes hardware, embedded software, as well as a cloud-based AI engine, a complex data collection operation. You will engage directly with highly-demanding Power Utilities around the world, with mission-critical needs. You will need to understand their requirements, find the common ground for all customers, and direct R&D what to develop in order to reach customer satisfaction.

The Senior Product Manager reports to Prisma Photonics VP Product.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage the entire lifecycle of the product – from conception, through customer pilots, deployments, continuous feature releases and end-of-life. Push the organization to reach its Product goals.
• Understand the market, current offerings, gaps and opportunities.
• Follow-up on product requirements for existing products and features, and write product requirements for new products and features maximizing customer reach while minimizing product derivatives.
• Requirements encompass hardware, software, AI, data collection.
• Be a focal point for management and peers across the company for the product needs.
• Develop written materials such as customer reports, presentations, one-pagers, user guides, etc.

What You Bring:

• B.Sc. degree in a relevant field; M.Sc./Ph.D. is an advantage
• Experience managing complex hardware-software systems.
• At least 5 years experience in relevant R&D roles.
• At least 5 years experience as a product manager.
• Customer facing experience.