Senior Technical Product Manager

Description:

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.