Senior Hardware Product Manager

Copeland • St. Louis, MO

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About The Position

The Senior Product Manager - Marine owns product strategy, roadmap, and portfolio execution for Marine Transportation monitoring and controls hardware and firmware within Transportation Solutions. The role coordinates with software product management and aligns with the Marine platform roadmap to support a seamless customer experience across the Marine Transportation ecosystem. It leads portfolio execution to achieve sales and profit objectives.

The position develops deep knowledge of the market, end users, their goals, and the problems they face. Working with global Sales, Support, and Engineering teams, the Senior Product Manager strengthens the Marine customer base and maximizes product value through prioritization, cost management, gross margin improvement, new product development, and lifecycle management. It also leads product discovery, requirements, development priorities, go-to-market support, market analysis, and portfolio lifecycle planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Marketing, or Business.
• At least 6 years working on technology-powered products as a product manager, product designer, engineer, data analyst, or data scientist, with demonstrated ownership of product strategy, development prioritization, and product launches.
• Ability to solve difficult problems within constraints, assess risks using sound judgment, and communicate recommendations in structured, data-informed written narratives.
• Demonstrated ability to learn multiple business functions, including Engineering, Design, Finance, Operations, Sales, or Marketing.
• Expertise in product discovery and in structuring testing plans to validate or invalidate assumptions from insight through launch, with curiosity and a drive to solve customer problems.
• Experience implementing growth, new business development, and marketing initiatives that strengthen market penetration.
• Ability and willingness to work with global teams across multiple time zones.
• Experience launching multiple products and experience with IoT products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with attention to detail in product requirements and stakeholder communications.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future; individuals on temporary visas are not eligible.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with electronic products.
• Experience in the Marine Transportation industry.
• Experience with cellular communications, Bluetooth, IP networks, RS-232, and proprietary protocols.
• Expertise in tools for conceptual product models, wireframes, and interactive low-fidelity prototypes to communicate product vision.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Marine Transportation hardware and firmware, including monitoring and controls.
• Align hardware and firmware roadmaps, coordinate software priorities with software product management, and align plans with the Marine platform roadmap.
• Build a deep understanding of the business, goals, stakeholders, and customer needs, and ensure product strategy and value propositions are understood by the product team.
• Develop and execute product OKRs and KPIs aligned with commercial objectives; measure sales and profit performance, gross margin improvement, and customer base growth.
• Build internal innovation capabilities and encourage creativity, innovative thinking, and learning.
• Own product management for Marine Transportation controls products and collaborate with Engineering to maintain and update product features.
• Collaborate with Project Management on schedules, action-item tracking, and stage gate meetings.
• Approve product and detailed feature requirements, ensuring new products and features align with business strategy and goals.
• Develop business cases for products and enhancements with cross-functional teams, evaluate feasibility, and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
• Prioritize new customer features, product improvements, bugs, maintenance, and cost optimization across the portfolio.
• Balance cost, timing, and resource tradeoffs, and contribute to technical and business decisions with an understanding of product and ecosystem impacts.
• Oversee product training frameworks and requirements for Sales, Service, and other go-to-market functions.
• Represent products in engagements with OEMs, integrators, and third parties, including technical specification discussions.
• Work with Marketing Communications to develop marketing materials and communicate product value propositions.
• Monitor Marine Transportation market and category trends, disruptive technologies, and legislative, agency, and regulatory impacts.
• Monitor competitive activity and assess competitors' product and technology strategies.
• Conduct technology and market research or collaborate with analysts as needed.
• Own market share analysis and reporting to executive management for the assigned portfolio.
• Participate in industry groups and committees as a subject matter expert to advance Copeland's visibility and influence in alignment with company objectives.
• Use insights about user interactions, technical functionality, and the product ecosystem to define customer problems, refine requirements, and prioritize improvements.
• Use product and user behavior data to measure progress, validate ideas, and inform decisions.
• Identify and track key questions and risky assumptions during product discovery, and support the development and governance of experiments to address them.
• Determine the optimal portfolio to meet customer needs and operational goals.
• Develop and execute plans for product obsolescence, portfolio rationalization, phase-outs, transitions, and modifications.

Benefits

• Flexible and competitive benefits plans, including medical insurance, dental and vision coverage, and 401(k).
• Flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave, vacation, and holiday leave.
• Investment in employee development from onboarding through senior leadership.

What This Job Offers

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