Technical Product Manager, Hardware Product Development

Tangent Design Engineering•Calgary, AB

1d•CA$115,000 - CA$140,000•Onsite

About The Position

At Tangent Design Engineering, we help clients turn complex technical ideas into real hardware products. Our work spans discovery, concept development, detailed engineering, prototyping, testing, manufacturing readiness, commercialization, and support. We work on products where the technical choices matter, the details matter, and good judgment makes the difference between an interesting idea and something that can actually be built, tested, certified, supported, and used. We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager who can sit at the centre of that process. This role is for someone who understands hardware product development deeply enough to ask sharp questions, translate business and client needs into clear technical direction, and help multidisciplinary teams make practical decisions under real-world constraints. You’ll work directly with clients, engineering leads, project managers, and business development to shape product strategy, define requirements, manage trade-offs, and keep product intent clear as projects move from uncertainty to execution. You will not be expected to have every technical answer. You will be expected to create clarity, surface risk early, and help teams converge on smart, defensible decisions. This is not a pure software product role, and it is not a coordinator role. It is a hands-on product leadership role for someone who has worked close to engineering delivery and understands what it takes to move physical products through design, validation, manufacturing, regulatory, and support realities.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in engineering, such as Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Systems, or a related discipline, or an equivalent technical background.
5+ years of experience in engineering, technical product management, product development, systems engineering, technical project delivery, or a related hardware product role.
Experience helping physical products move through uncertainty, technical definition, design, prototype builds, testing, manufacturing readiness, and support.
Strong product judgement, including the ability to make trade-offs across performance, cost, schedule, usability, regulatory constraints, manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability.
The ability to write clear requirements, specifications, acceptance criteria, decision records, technical documentation, and client-facing deliverables.
Comfort working across mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, industrial design, quality, operations, manufacturing, and regulatory functions.
Familiarity with quality systems, regulated environments, or standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 27001, or similar.
Exposure to regulated industries such as medical devices, industrial controls, oil and gas, or similarly technical environments.
Understanding of design reviews, technical risk, requirements traceability, and product development decision-making.
Exposure to DFx principles, including design for manufacturing, testability, serviceability, or reliability.
Excellent communication skills, sound technical judgment, and the confidence to create clarity without pretending every answer is obvious.

Nice To Haves

Eng is preferred.

Responsibilities

Own product definition and technical product direction across hardware-driven development projects.
Lead discovery with clients and internal teams to understand product goals, user needs, business drivers, constraints, risks, scope, and phase deliverables.
Own product roadmaps and technical product direction that balance client priorities, engineering realities, regulatory expectations, manufacturability, serviceability, and commercial value.
Translate ambiguous client needs into clear product requirements, technical specifications, acceptance criteria, decision records, and project deliverables.
Guide projects through Tangent’s product development framework, from discovery and concept selection through detailed design, prototyping, verification, manufacturing readiness, commercialization, service, and support.
Work closely with mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, industrial design, quality, operations, manufacturing, and regulatory teams.
Partner with project managers and discipline leads to align technical priorities with schedules, budgets, resourcing, risks, blockers, and client commitments.
Facilitate design reviews and product decision points, including peer reviews, discipline-specific reviews, system-level reviews, risk reviews, and design transfer readiness.
Create and maintain product documentation, including requirements, traceability, quality management inputs, test and validation expectations, project reports, and phase-gate deliverables.
Help ensure project work aligns with relevant standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 27001, and applicable regulatory expectations.
Identify technical and product risks early, frame trade-offs clearly, and support client conversations around scope, cost, schedule, performance, quality, and approvals.
Work with project management, CRM, and business development to identify follow-on opportunities and turn product roadmaps into credible future project proposals.
Contribute technical analysis, engineering judgment, or discipline-specific work when it helps move the product forward.