Product Manager

About The Position
MEET THE SMART SAFETY COMPANY
At Safe Fleet our name says it all. We make fleet vehicles – and everyone in and around them – safer. Our fleet safety platform brings together best-in-class products, ground-breaking technology, and a 100-year history of fleet know-how and innovation to solve the world's biggest fleet safety problems.

Our core value is safety. Without safety first, efficiency and productivity are not possible. This is true for our products, our culture, and our relationship with our community. Our vision is to reduce preventable deaths and injuries in and around fleet vehicles with a goal of ZERO accidents.

We are re-defining what safety means for fleets of every type – from school buses to waste collection trucks, firefighting to utility vehicles, police cruisers to delivery vans.

Whether you work in our Charlotte plant to build life-saving stop arms for school buses, or design advanced camera vision products in our Vancouver office, forge valves and high-quality nozzles to fight fires, or dream up new ways to protect fleet operators in our Corporate HQ in Kansas City, you'll contribute to our goal to keep everyone safe.

We are a fast-growing manufacturing, service, and technology company with over 1700 employees in over 15 locations across Canada and the US. We're looking for motivated self-starters with innovative thinking to join our team and help us achieve our growth and performance goals. Sound like you?

Job Summary
As Product Manager, Camera and AI Hardware Solutions, you will work with strategic customers and internal advanced engineering teams to define the requirements and guide development of specific new HW products and solutions. You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to solve exciting hardware and software challenges, and work in close partnership with customers to ensure our solutions meet and exceed their expectations. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative environment, and be very good at finding the right trade offs between technical feasibility and commercial viability in the product roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Become one of the leading voices for our HW Solutions offering including leading edge technology, competitive and market dynamics, regulatory and technical trends, and product positioning
• Drive roadmap planning and product definition. Work with engineering, customer success, sales, and business development teams to establish product definition, costs, lifecycle, success criteria, goals, target availability and their impacts on the customer and the business.
• Prioritize features and performance decisions aligned with customer needs and Safe Fleet's vision and strategy by working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead product-related customer engagement and discovery. Identify customer pain points, needs, opportunities, and gaps. Develop a clear understanding of the competitive landscape. Fluently distill and elevate the findings into a product and service portfolio.
• Provide leadership and focus. Establish a shared vision across the company by contributing to strategies and priorities, leading product execution with data-driven analysis.
• Communicate regularly with the executive team, functional leadership, and the broader company on progress of your products both in development and in-market.

SALARY:
$115,000 - $140,000/yr CAD

The final offer will be determined based on a combination of factors including skills, experience, and alignment with the role's responsibilities.

• Candidates at the lower end of the range will meet the core qualifications and demonstrate strong potential to grow within the role.
• Mid-range offers reflect a solid match with the role's technical and collaborative requirements.
• Offers at the top of the range are reserved for candidates who bring exceptional qualifications, specialized expertise, or unique value that significantly exceeds the baseline expectations

At Safe Fleet, we are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is valued and respected. We embrace diversity and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. We promote fair and equitable hiring practices and foster a culture of inclusivity and respect.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher with a technical and/or business discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in product management with embedded products.
• Experience in driving the full product development lifecycle from product vision, detailed requirements, execution of development, go-to-market strategy, and technical and commercial lifecycle improvements.
• Proven track record of successfully operating in customer interface, and an ability to create win-win solutions and shared roadmaps.
• Experience with Agile Software Development tools such as JIRA and a proven track record of success in shipping quality products in an Agile environment
• Experience contributing to business development, strategy, and technology decisions related to hardware and software products
• Proven track record of delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and driving innovation on behalf of internal and external customers
• Comfortable assessing and taking risks, and managing ambiguity
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive action.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs, and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners
• High attention to detail including precise and effective stakeholder communication, and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong bias for action; ability to create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Development experience in cloud software, embedded systems, hardware, operating systems, and software applications.
• Direct work experience in Engineering, UX/UI, Enterprise IT, Quality, Sales, Customer Support.