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You will be responsible for defining, designing, and delivering smart building hardware and IoT solutions across environmental services (Smartclean, Pestsense) and workplace management (Air Quality, occupancy management) and structural integrity/inspection. Your role will involve bridging customer needs, in-house engineering, and external manufacturing/engineering partners to turn concepts into robust, scalable products deployed across real estate portfolios. Key Responsibilities: - Own the solution architecture and roadmap from a hardware/IoT standpoint across Proptech solutions such as Smartclean, Pestsense, Occupancy, and Structural integrity products, ensuring sensor, gateway, and cloud pieces work seamlessly together. - Translate use cases into detailed hardware and firmware requirements, including sensing modalities, enclosure/industrial design constraints, connectivity, power, and installation requirements. - Collaborate closely with in-house engineering teams (hardware, embedded, cloud, frontend) to explore concepts, evaluate components, review schematics and prototypes, and guide tradeoffs on cost, performance, and manufacturability. - Lead collaboration with outsourced design houses, ODM/OEM partners, and EMS manufacturers to design and build new devices and gateways, ensuring alignment with specifications, certifications, and quality standards. - Drive the full NPI and productization journey, including proof of concept, EVT/DVT/PVT, certification and regulatory approvals, pilot deployments, scaling to volume production, and versioning/refresh cycles. - Define and manage manufacturing requirements, including test procedures, factory acceptance criteria, QA plans, and yield and reliability targets for devices deployed in demanding building environments. - Work with supply chain and operations to select and onboard suppliers, manage BOM cost and lifecycle, and ensure resilience against component EOLs and supply disruptions. - Design deployment and installation playbooks for Field Ops teams and partners, including mounting options, commissioning flows, connectivity plans, and field diagnostics. - Collaborate with software/platform teams to ensure seamless integration of device capabilities with analytics, dashboards, and APIs for solution workflows. - Monitor in-field performance and returns data, drive root cause analysis for hardware/firmware issues, and prioritize improvements for reliability, battery life, and user experience. Requirements: - 6+ years of product management or equivalent experience, with significant time spent on IoT hardware or embedded products, ideally in smart building, industrial, or PropTech contexts. - Strong understanding of end-to-end IoT solution architecture, including sensors and edge devices, gateways, connectivity (LoRaWAN, cellular IoT, WiFi, BLE), cloud ingestion, and applications. - Demonstrated experience working with in-house engineering teams and outsourced design/manufacturing partners (ODM/OEM/EMS) to co-develop new products. - Hands-on familiarity with hardware development and NPI stages, associated documentation, and decision gates. - Ability to understand and challenge hardware/firmware tradeoffs in the context of real-world building deployments. - Strong communication and project leadership skills to coordinate cross-functional teams and external partners on timelines, scope, and quality. - Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electronics, Electrical, Mechatronics, or related) or Computer Science; experience with smart buildings, facility services, or environmental monitoring is a strong plus.,
