Senior Product Manager, New Alarms Product
About The Position
Verkada is seeking a Product Manager to lead a new line of business in its Alarms portfolio. The role’s mission is to build an advanced, high-performing detection and response system, expanding traditional and AI-powered sensors and developing solutions for customers ranging from retailers with hundreds of small stores to manufacturing sites with very large warehouses. The position owns the new-product hardware and software roadmap and success, translating customers’ detection needs and physical-site topologies into successful products. It oversees development from concept through launch and success, working closely with hardware and software engineering, and manages relationships with regulatory and compliance entities across jurisdictions. The role also directs pricing, go-to-market positioning, and sales training for new Alarms devices, while ensuring solutions meet customer and channel-partner needs and scale simply, quickly, and flexibly. This role is onsite at Verkada’s headquarters in San Mateo, California.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in B2B.
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a similar quantitative field.
- Proven history of launching and scaling hardware and/or embedded-systems products.
- Strong customer intuition, technical depth, and ability to navigate tradeoffs.
- Ability to lead across strategy and execution, with attention to detail.
- Foundational understanding of firmware, networking, device bring-up, and electrical and mechanical design aspects of hardware.
Nice To Haves
- MS, PhD, or MBA.
- Passion for craftsmanship and product details; experience retrofitting a home with smart-home technology is mentioned as an example.
Responsibilities
- Own the new-product hardware and software roadmap and success, understanding customers’ detection needs and physical-site topologies and translating requirements into successful products.
- Oversee product development from concept through success, collaborating with hardware and software engineering to meet customer needs and development timelines.
- Manage relationships with regulatory and compliance entities and understand requirements across jurisdictions.
- Direct pricing, go-to-market positioning, and sales training for new Alarms devices.
- Understand customer and channel-partner needs and ensure hardware scales across small and large deployments with simplicity, speed, and flexibility.
Benefits
- Healthcare programs tailored to personal health and financial well-being needs.
- Employee premiums are 100% covered under at least one medical plan, and family premiums are 80% covered under all plans.
- Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax-saving options.
- Expanded mental health support.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility benefits and a fertility stipend.
- Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
- Professional development stipend.
- Wellness and fitness benefits.
- Healthy lunches provided daily.
- Commuter benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
