Drive Product Innovation as a Product Manager at HED

HED is an industry leader specializing in the design, manufacture, and application of innovative vehicle controls, displays, and telematics systems for on- and off-highway vehicle OEMs. Our application development tools, and engineering services enable OEMs flexibility and easy configurability to create customized vehicle control systems.

Are you a visionary with a passion for driving product innovation? We're on the lookout for a talented and motivated Product Manager to join our team. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of shaping the future of HED products. Your mission: to develop, implement, and execute cutting-edge product strategies, definitions, and roadmaps.

You'll be the linchpin that brings together diverse teams from sales, business development, engineering, marketing, and operations. Your goal: To bridge organizational gaps and ensure seamless collaboration, delivering products that not only delight our customers but also achieve exceptional growth and profitability in our core markets.

Success in this role will be measured by your ability to drive business growth, enhance profitability, and ensure market fit across your assigned product lines. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact as an individual contributor.

If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge and help us shape the future of HED products, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own and manage the health of assigned product line(s), ensuring continued growth in revenue, market share, profitability, and product vitality. Creates and implements a product strategy that delivers growth in revenue and profitability for assigned product line(s) within target markets and customers
• Balances the needs of customers and limitations of stakeholders (development time, cost, investment)
• Responsible for the definition of a clear and compelling product vision and timeline that aligns to the overall business strategy for the assigned HED portfolio of products 
• Communicates frequently and succinctly with broader organization, helping teams understand product goals, progress on goals, successes, difficulties, and impacts to product vision and strategies 
• Monitors product and market pricing, ensuring optimization of market penetration, competitiveness, and profitability
• Maintains product line dashboards that measure the impact of our product strategies, refining actions as needed to meet targets
• Works closely with Sales and Marketing to build and execute Go-to-Market plans that drive leads and customer conversion
• Manages the product life cycle of assigned product line(s), including SKU rationalization and product line simplification
• Frequently participates in or leads customer VOC events to ensure application understanding, product definition that is aligned to customer value and assist in the selling process 
• Participate in the development of internal and external stakeholder meetings on recommended product strategies, tactics, provide product training, input to market materials and regular communication to sales and product teams that assist in obtaining market share for the product 
• Responsible for validating and adapting product vision based on market acceptance, feasibility, needs, testing, and business viability 
• Work closely with eco system partners for products to address issues, communicate needs, manage on-time delivery when required of product requirements, and implementation into HED products
• Participates in the continuous improvement of product post-commercialization of products and services

The list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

To perform this role successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications

    Education:

• BS or AS degree in engineering or marketing with technical experience (electrical, electronics, electronics technologist, mobile hydraulics, or mechatronics preferred) 

    Experience:

• 3+ years minimal experience in technical product management and execution

    Skills and Abilities:

• Customer focused with a high need to win and drive success
• Highly accountable and outcome driven
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed for customer engagement
• Strong communication (written, verbal & presentation) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently to set daily priorities and workload for self 
• Demonstrated ability to identify, qualify, and develop solutions for customer needs
• Ability to work cross functionally with all departments
• Proficient with computers: Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point
• Attention to detail, accuracy, and task follow-through
• Data Driven, comfortable model data to understand market / decision impacts
• Multitask effectively across multiple demands in a timely and professional manner
• Ability to perform under pressure and address complaints in a timely manner
• Technically astute, an ability for you to interface and communicate with engineers will be critical in this role
• Constant learner that enjoys solving problems and improving

Preferred Qualifications

• Past engineering experience – development, application or other
• Working understanding of electronics controls, vehicle communication systems such as CAN, Telematics, IOT, software as a service, J1939, CAN Open, other, and embedded software

Physical and Mental Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk and/or hear, and/or use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects, tools, or controls.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, and/or walk.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds while moving files or small packages.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. The mental and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.

Working Environment

Work is performed in an office environment.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Frequent travel to a customer’s location may be required and may include factory or test environments.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an individual may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Environment: Work on cutting-edge technology projects.
• Collaborative Culture: Be part of a team that values collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.
• Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a difference in the world and in our communities.

Sound Interesting? Apply now!

Email your resume to adankmeyer@hedcontrols.com