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DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - SOUTHBOUND

 

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 of defining and managing the DevSecOps Edge Software portfolio of the company. DevOps and by extension DevSecOps are the next level of the agile movement started decades ago. Well established in the IT world, Lynx is taking the concept to the OT domain where failure is not an option. We are at the early stage to define our portfolio to support DevSecOps and this is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact on the company growth in new segments of the market. You combine hands-on leadership with an entrepreneurial mentality. You will be committed to listen to customers, look at fact based with an industry thought leadership.

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

  •  Proven experience with products and technologies such as Cloud Native, Software Factory, Pipeline, CI/CT for IoT/Edge applications with 10+ years of experience in Product Management
  • Great understanding of customer business issues, challenges, strategic direction as well as the ecosystem relevant to the OT market
  • Expert in how cyber, security and safety compliance need to be supported in high integrity systems
  • Experience in Data/Analytics both on the host /cloud and edge device
  • Knowledge of Secure Engineering principles throughout the lifecycle of development, deployment, and orchestration of edge devices
  • Experience in security best practices to guide engineering teams towards building software solutions that are secure by design and secure by default
  • Highly desirable expertise in A&D and/or Industrial
  • 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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