Description
Create awesome experiences for our customers
Our team and what we’ll accomplish together
Our Connected Home Hardware team researches, ideates, designs, develops, and manages consumer technologies to make our customers' interaction with TELUS services faster, seamless, and more reliable. Whether finding new ways to connect consumer devices, advancing product form factors, or improving machine-to-human interactions, our team focuses on improving our customers' lives by making technology simpler and friendlier.
We work closely with our engineers, marketing teams, industrial designers, and manufacturing partners to manage products from conception to launch and retirement. We support Optik TV, internet access hardware, Boost Wi-Fi, SmartHome, and more.
What you’ll do
As a Staff Technical Product Manager - Home Security Hardware (L5 Product) in the TELUS Connected Home Hardware Team, you will manage our portfolio of home security hardware, with a focus on the control panels and accompanying devices that support our SmartHome service. You will assess and evaluate TELUS’ current and future control panel roadmap. To achieve this, you will manage the end-to-end product lifecycle for your product portfolio, working with ODM/OEM partners to define, develop and launch the products, and managing them post-launch until their end of life. You will define the overall strategy, product roadmap, and technical/feature specifications for our products based on long-term product vision, user needs, technical and market trends, and platform capabilities.Specifically, you will:
Serve as the subject matter expert on competitor products, vendor roadmaps, IoT protocols, Wi-Fi protocols, smart home technologies, home security and automation technologies
Develop product roadmap and the in-home deployment architecture for current and new products
Conduct market research (technology, consumer, competitor), develop product design (industrial design, packaging, mechanical design, features, useability, and onboarding), and write requirements documentation
Engage with and get buy-in from several stakeholders and partners, both internally and externally, on your proposed product roadmap
Create, maintain, present, and get approval for business cases that support your product roadmap from all leadership levels
Evaluate mechanical design, RF design, CMF (colour, material, finish) as part of the product development process
Lead all internal and external teams for product launches and ongoing management, including vendors, engineering (RF, mechanical, software, and firmware), systems and ordering, marketing, logistics, and supply chain
Create, maintain, and share project plans and schedules for new product development with all leadership levels, both internally and externally
Maintain strategic partnerships with various hardware, silicon, and software vendors
Qualifications
What you bring
10+ years experience managing technical projects through to completion
Degree in business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Experience building and driving business priorities for a product portfolio, including ROI analysis, budgeting, and cost-benefit analysis
Experience translating market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape into product strategies and roadmaps
Deep understanding of home automation home security, and IoT technologies
Experience working with third-party vendors, particularly manufacturers
Deep understanding and experience with consumer electronics development life cycles and various electronics manufacturing working models
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to bridge technical and business teams
Excellent organizational, time management, and presentation skills
Great-to-haves
Experience with new technology development (hardware and software)
Experience with consumer electronics or telecom industry
PMP Certification
Agile Product Management Certification
Knowledge of Jira and Confluence
Knowledge of Monday.com
Knowledge of G-suite
Spoken Mandarin is helpful when communicating with manufacturing partners
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