-Open Position-

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - NORTHBOUND

 

SUMMARY

We are looking for a Director of Product Management to join our team. The position is San Jose, Ca based with hybrid schedule.

The Director of Product Management is a new position reporting to the head of Product. The right candidate will strengthen our competitive positioning across tiers from features, tools, power, performance, benchmarking, and cost perspectives, and use those to ensure that we have the best-in-class roadmap for our products.

Company Description
For over 30 years, Lynx Software Technologies (Lynx) has crafted and adapted platform architectures for builders of safety- and/or security-critical systems. Lynx embraced open standards from the beginning, with its original real-time operating systems (RTOS).

Lynx is the leader in enabling Mission Critical Edge platforms, combining deterministic real-time performance, security, and hardware optimizations of traditional embedded software with the DevSecOps advantages enjoyed by IT infrastructure.

Keys to Success
You will be responsible managing the Edge Software portfolio of the company consisting of hypervisor-based platform, market specific RTOS (e.g., DO 178), Cyber protection, Linux and the set of tooling enabling the development and deployment of the company product into the customer equipment. Additionally, the candidate will take the lead in create aggressive go-to market plan and develop product road map. You will be highly collaborative with all functions in the company such as engineering, technology office, sales, finance.

Responsibilities

  • Assessing trends and market requirements to translate into product roadmap
  • Execute through engineering the commit product roadmap
  • Continuously evaluating the competitive landscape to ensure proper positioning
  • Creating business case and ROI analysis to support the roadmap investments
  • Create the product requirement, backlog for the engineering organization to deliver on time, on feature and on budget
  • Supporting the marketing team to create marketing and sales enablement material
  • Presenting the Product Portfolio at various customer facing, industry conferences events and partner meetings
  • Working with the sales organization in supporting growth in the top strategic and lighthouse accounts
  • Operating as a key member of the senior management team with a growth mindset, entrepreneurial spirit and sense of ownership and accountability

Skills and Experience

  • 15+ years of experience in Product Management for embedded or edge systems such as RTOS, development tools, middleware, Linux, software development pipeline
  • Mastering the creation of PRD, user stories, market sizing
  • Success in defining and releasing into the market at least 3 products in the past 5 years.
  • Knowledge in either A&D or Industrial market
  • Extremely comfortable to engage with customer at all levels from engineer to senior business level positions
  • Great interpersonal communication skills and great speaker to represent the company during events
  • Real competence in gathering market and competitive information and assimilating this into the company portfolio
  • Hand on with ability to move easily between product, services, marketing, strategy, and technical discussions
  • Natural influence management skills with the ability to establish strong, collaborative working relationships with several stakeholder
  • Able to work with ITAR information when needed
    •BSEE/CS or equivalent required, MBA a plus.
  • 25 % Travel required

Benefits

  •  Medical / Dental / Vision coverage
  • PTO
  • Work from home option flexibility
  • 401k
  • Career growth and development opportunities

Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We base our employment decisions entirely on business needs, job requirements, and qualifications—We have zero tolerance for any kind of discrimination, and we are looking for candidates who share those values. Here at Lynx, it is our mission to create and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, no matter what an employee's: Ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical ability, religion, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, national origin, veteran status thus providing a positive work employee experience.

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