Product Management Associate - Needham, MA
Needham, MA
POSITION OVERVIEW
Are you a creative self-starter with the ability to thrive in a dynamic team environment? Want to make an immediate impact on the exciting and rapidly evolving Internet of Things space? As a Hardware Product Management Associate for Alarm.com subsidiary Building36, you’ll have the chance to develop innovative solutions for our partners and more than 7 million subscribers worldwide.
Very few companies give you the opportunity to work across such a broad range of technologies, and as a member of the Building36 team you’ll work with new hardware products in the energy, HVAC, and water management space You’ll also work with industry-leading hardware partners to expand our ecosystem and help support our hardware engineering team. On top of that, Alarm.com offers a friendly culture with smart and productive co-workers who are committed to delivering an outstanding customer experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Your job responsibilities will include:
- Becoming the product expert and liaison for your area of expertise
- Communicate with members from each department to assess goals, priorities, incentives, and strategy
- Driving the product development life cycle - Writing product specifications, testing new features, managing beta programs, creating documentation and supporting existing products
- A detailed understanding of how our home automation functionality works from low-level firmware operation, hardware industrial design, component analysis, and interaction with the software team.
- Ensuring that revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met for your projects
- Working with engineering, support, sales and high profile partners to resolve product issues
- Planning the go-to-market strategy for new products – Collaborating with engineering, sales, supply chain and other teams, educating stakeholders, and delivering product presentations
- Conducting market research – Gathering feedback from customers and analyzing the market landscape
- Championing enhancements to existing products
- Working with external hardware partners to source the highest quality solutions for our platform
- Coordinate with our industry partners to help direct design decisions to improve the product offering Building36 brings to the professional services channel
REQUIREMENTS
- B.S. or B.A. from a competitive school with strong academic performance, ME or EE degree preferred
- 0-3 years of relevant experience, including internships
- Strong quantitative, analytical and critical thinking abilities
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Passion for consumer technology and interest in developing a deep understanding of complex products and technologies
- Strong computer skills (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- General knowledge of basic engineering principles
WHY WORK FOR BUILDING 36?
- Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our quality standards are high, and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers.
- Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace within weeks. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Building 36 team!
- Gain well rounded experience: Building 36 offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and gain a broad knowledge base across multiple areas of the business.
- Work with latest technologies: As we continue to lead the industry, we require expertise across a broad spectrum of technologies including short and long-range wireless communication, video surveillance, lighting and HVAC automation, web development, and back-end application development and hosting.
- Focus on fun: Building 36 places high value on our team culture. We passionately challenge ourselves with high expectations and then routinely celebrate successes within and outside of office.
COMPANY BENEFITS
Building 36 offers competitive pay and benefits including a wide choice of healthcare options with generous company subsidy, a health savings account option with company contribution, 401(k) with employer match, paid holidays and paid time off increasing with tenure, paid maternity and paternity leave, company paid STD/LTD and life insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a casual dress work environment.
Building 36 is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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