Product Manager - Hardware

Job Title : Product Manager- Hardware

Location : Ahmedabad

Qualification : B.E. / B TECH/ ME / M TECH in with good academics results

Experience : 10+ Years

About us :

Mantra Softech is a global hi-tech manufacturer of biometric products and solutions with in-house design and development team. This dream project of like-minded visionaries started in 2006, continues to push the envelope on biometric system capabilities. Mantra enjoys market leadership in India and is expanding globally with client base in more than 30 countries. Mantras major business comes from government, telecom and financial sectors to name few. Mantras product

portfolio includes Fingerprint Sensors, IRIS Sensor, Integrated Fingerprint Devices, Integrated IRIS Devices, POS / MicroATM / Financial Terminal, IRIS Recognition in Mobile and many more biometric devices. Customer's rapidly growing requirements for complex and sophisticated security system are the inspiration behind Mantra's Innovative products and solutions.

Please visit our website, https://www.mantratec.com/

Job Summary

Mantra Softech is looking for a Product Manager to join the product management team, who has successfully incubated new technology ventures in startups and larger enterprise technology companies. He/she has a track record of working in highly effective product management teams and working collaboratively with global R&D, Marketing, and Sales.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Drive product vision, direction, and business plans, including product plans/roadmaps, product evolution, and product lifecycle process for hardware selection and components roadmap
• Drive and develop processes and adhere to product life cycle process for export compliance, trademark compliance, export and import laws, patent filing in collaboration with R&D and Marketing
• Identify, develop, and manage contractual, technical, and consulting relationships with strategic partners and service providers especially around their preferred hardware platform of choice
• Gather, validate, and evaluate product/market requirements through market and customer research, competitive and product research involving customer visits, advisory councils, industry events, analyst

relationships, etc

• Provide insights to the business through analytics and market research in collaboration with Marketing around hardware life cycles and deprecation timelines
• Work with Hardware Development team members and the Software Development team to implement the enhancements for the latest technology innovations, new regions, and instance types in the cloud
• Coordinate with QA Lead Manager to facilitate BETA testing activities with end users/testers
• Translate system functionality into business relevant language
• Drive measures to quantify product success and strategies to deliver customer delight. This includes developing business cases, identifying and assessing business opportunities, and determining strategic fit conditioned by technical feasibility
• Collaborate cross-functionally with sales and marketing to gain market, competitive, and customer insights and translate that into outcomes that drive unique value proposition, differentiation, and market share growth. Collaborate with R&D to translate market requirements into innovative new technology and with support to deliver solutions that have fast time-to-value and accelerate time-to-revenue
• Drive the pricing and cross-functional requirements (sales, channels, services, and marketing) to bring offer(s) to market for on-premises and cloud deployments covering CAPEX and OPEX and consumption- based pricing
• Work very closely with engineering to drive disruptive innovation and development prioritization at the fast pace of an early-stage startup
• Collaborate and drive user experience (UX) by working with engineering teams to create user-centered designs by considering customer feedback, technical constraints/opportunities, and usability findings and clearly define user personas and their requirements across the product line(s) and integration into existing cloud ecosystems
• Present the product(s) and service(s) to all audiences ranging from exec level (C-level) to technical audiences for end customers, partners, and integrators requiring excellent communication skills and adaptability when faced with gaining support from varying audiences
• Lead research, definition, and prioritization of new product ideas. Embrace new technologies and establish their value
• Drive the operational cadence and measure and prioritize critical initiatives, and contribute to the preparation of the content for Executive Staff, Quarterly Business Reviews and Board Meetings
• Engage in customer escalations in collaboration with Customer support and R&D to help and drive customer satisfaction.

Key Performance Indicators

1. Teamwork Skills

2. Product oriented

3. Designing and building hardware

4. Recommending new hardware designs

5. Performing tests of new hardware and software

6. Troubleshooting and debugging performance issues

7. Working with vendors and hardware suppliers to implement new designs

8. Supporting the hardware engineering team

9. Providing technical support for hardware issues

10. Following industry-standard processes and procedures

11. Collaborating with other engineers

Required Skills

• 5+ years in product management
• 3+ years in hardware product management
• Strong knowledge of Attendance & Access Control Product Architectures
• Deep knowledge around Hardware Design & Development
• Specific experience in building the strategy and roadmaps for IOT/Security products in agile environments
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary
• Inspirational leader; can motivate, inspire, and motivate teams around a product vision
• Strong analytical and logical skills
• Ability to build Excel-based partner tools for BOM, Sizing, Pricing, etc purposes
• Problem-solving and organizational skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Experience working with teams across geographies and business units
• Experience in JIRA

Qualification and Experience

1. B.E. / B TECH in Electronics or Electronics & Communication, ME / M TECH in with good academics results

2. 8+ Years’ experience in top corporate

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We are Looking forward to your reply!!

Warm Regards,

| Varsha Raikwar, Talent Acquisition Executive, Human Resource

Mantra Softech (India) Pvt Ltd

| S. G. Highway | Ahmedabad - 380060 | INDIA |

| Mobile: +91 9512329400

| Email: recruiter3@mantratec.com | Web: www.mantratec.com