Description
Technical Product Manager - Electronic Percussion (hybrid remote)
Role Overview: The Technical Product Manager (PM) for Zildjian Electronic Percussion will bridge the gap between technology and business. Leveraging a strong technical background, this role manages the development of new products as well as the optimization and cost savings initiatives for existing projects. The PM will oversee the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring products meet technical standards, remain competitive, and align with market trends.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain deep understanding of the consumer, category, competitors, and technology trends in electronic percussion to drive ideation and innovation plans.
- Lead the execution of the product roadmap, outlining timelines for feature releases and product updates to ensure delivery against long term business targets.
- Help define and communicate differentiated product features and benefits. Create technical briefs and specifications.
- Lead the cross-functional team and external vendors and partners through the product development process from concept through commercialization to address technical requirements and constraints and deliver products on time and to specifications.
- Monitor and analyze product performance, user feedback, and market trends to identify opportunities and challenges
- Serve as a liaison between technical and non-technical teams. Collaborate with Commercial team to provide training, sales tools, and commercialization support.
- In partnership with Compliance Consultant, Engineering, Sales, and Supply Chain, coordinate and manage compliance requirements.
- Maintain library of product technical specifications and compliance documentation.
- Act as project manager for Engineering team; Maintain Monday boards, track deliverables progress, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain detailed project timelines. Identify and mitigate risks, escalating and resolving issues as they arise.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering.
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in bringing innovative, new products to market in electronic instruments or consumer electronics.
- High level of accountability, drive to deliver tasks on time and to specification, ability to influence and manage cross functional teams in delivery against objectives.
- Strong verbal, written, presentation and storytelling skills; ability to present technical details to end users and non-technical audiences.
- Self-motivated, proactive, problem solving, and responsive. Embody a can-do attitude and ‘how we can’ thinking.
- Highly collaborative; ability to work well with Global cross-functional teams; comfort level respectfully challenging and being challenged. Good listener.
- Ability to travel ~30%, including travel to Europe and APAC. Ability to work across multiple time zones requiring evening and early morning calls.
- Drumming experience a plus.