Product Manager Visibility Solutions

ASSA ABLOY • Eden Prairie, MN

43d

About The Position

The Product Manager – Visibility Solutions, is responsible for defining and driving the strategy, development, and lifecycle performance of a comprehensive solution portfolio that integrates hardware, software, and services into cohesive, market-ready offerings. This role ensures that each solution delivers measurable customer outcomes while advancing the company’s strategic and financial objectives

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.
We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees.

IDT is creating trusted identities for IoT applications through Smart Components and Enabling Services.
HID’s Identification Technologies powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things through smart components and cloud services. We make it possible for people and organizations to transact safely, work productively, and travel freely. Our contactless identification and sensing (RFID, NFC, and BLE) components and solution enabling technologies address the dynamic requirements across multiple industries to wirelessly connect, identify, collect and manage data quickly and accurately across virtually any IoT application.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field preferred
• 7+ years of product management or technical commercial product experience with proven track record of successful product launches
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite and product development processes
• Ability to translate complex market research into actionable product strategies
• Exceptional skills in articulating vision and requirements to diverse technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities while leading cross-functional teams to deliver results
• Natural enthusiasm for solving meaningful customer problems through innovative product solutions
• Ability to travel throughout US, Canada, and Mexico approx 30% of the time

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience in hollow metal doors and frames manufacturing or commercial building products highly preferred

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the portfolio reflects strategic markets, customer value, and profitable growth opportunities.
• Prioritizing based on market needs by regularly assessing customer problems and emerging trends to align the portfolio to high-growth, high-relevance segments.
• Defining and validating solution-market fit by confirming how the integrated solution (hardware + software + services) delivers measurable outcomes.
• Differentiating segment coverage by ensuring portfolio elements provide clear value across verticals or customer tiers (entry, mid, premium).
• Evaluating lifecycle value by considering revenue, customer lifetime value, and retention contributions.
• Maintaining portfolio health by balancing innovation, enhancement, and legacy phase-outs.
• Building interoperable, scalable, and modular solutions that deliver outcomes, not just components.
• Driving platform and modular design through common frameworks that enable re-use (software APIs, hardware platforms, data layers).
• Developing an interoperability roadmap with clear integration paths for ecosystem partners (sensors, gateways, middleware, analytics).
• Harmonizing technologies by reducing duplication and creating standardized solution building blocks.
• Enabling the ecosystem by defining partner interfaces and certification processes to expand solution compatibility.
• Prioritizing investments based on ROI, linking decisions to financial return, market impact, and strategic value.
• Managing portfolio P&L accountability by tracking revenue, margin, and attach-rate performance by solution family.
• Rationalizing low-value SKUs or overlapping offers and sunsetting them appropriately.
• Aligning resources across R&D, marketing, and sales enablement with top strategic bets.
• Packaging solutions through bundles or subscription models that simplify buying and deliver full outcomes.
• Equipping sales enablement with value propositions, pricing, and competitive differentiation at the solution level.
• Coordinating cross-functional readiness with sales, delivery, and partners for scalable deployment.
• Maintaining reference architectures as validated solution templates for repeatable customer use cases.
• Defining outcome metrics using customer-centric KPIs (uptime, throughput, safety, cost avoidance, etc.).
• Creating feedback loops using customer input, telemetry, and usage analytics to guide enhancements.
• Measuring ease of deployment, integration complexity, and time-to-value.
• Integrating sustainability and compliance considerations (lifecycle, ESG, regulatory) into solution design.
• Driving cross-functional governance through clear decision frameworks for prioritization and resource allocation.
• Maintaining transparency with portfolio dashboards (revenue by segment, attach rate, innovation mix).
• Applying agile program management to deliver solution value iteratively.
• Collaborating with partners by aligning roadmaps and lifecycle management with strategic technology or service partners.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and rewards package
• Competitive benefits and annual leave offering, allowing for work-life balance
• A vibrant, welcoming & inclusive culture
• Extensive career development opportunities and resources to maximize your potential
• To be a part of a global organization that is pioneering the hardware, software and services that allow people to confidently navigate the physical and digital worlds

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level