Product Manager

Company Description

Unirac is a national leader in the solar PV structural mounting industry. We enable our customers to power the world with clean, abundant energy by creating dependable, innovative mounting solutions. Unirac is a fast-paced work environment and is growing rapidly with many changes and new opportunities arising regularly.

Company Culture

High performing, ethical culture centered around an entrepreneurial spirit and challenging work.

The Product Manager Role

The Product Manger owns product performance and strategy for a family of products. The ideal candidate will be able to understand industry trends and the competitive landscape and develop product strategies to deliver both revenue and margin growth leveraging not only new product development, product positioning, pricing, and promotion.

Primary Responsibilities/Duties

• Serve as the product owner for 1 or more families of products
• Responsible for generating incremental growth, revenue and margin through development projects and initiatives
• Work directly with sales and our customers (installers and distributors) to define the value proposition for winning product.
• Define product requirements that product development to deliver against a winning value proposition
• Track and analyze key product performance metrics, generating insights to guide decision-making and strategy adjustments with Senior Leadership
• Responsible for the product lifecycle, from ideation and development to launch and end-of-life.
• Work with Sales and Marketing to define the necessary go-to market activities to ensure product introduction success
• Work with Marketing to develop product collateral and other promotional materials
• Manage products through the entire product development process, leveraging the existing stage gate process
• Comfortable reading and understanding applicable technical product / material standards
• Understand, calculate, and apply basic financial concepts (examples: gross margin, EBIT, etc.) for a product line
• Develop and provide product training to Sales and the broader organization

Skills

• Demonstrated success in product development and lifecycle management.
• Understanding of product development and manufacturing processes
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Great communicator with ability to articulate complex ideas and solutions. Strong communication (presentation, written, verbal) and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
• Understanding of basic financial concepts and ability to apply these concepts (i.e., gross margin, EBIT, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of intellectual property concepts related to hardware products

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field
• Minimum 2 years relevant work experience
• Ability to travel as needed 10-15%.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation Package
• Alternative work schedules
• Affordable Healthcare Benefits Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability & Life/AD&D insurance, 401K)

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.