Job Description

Director of Product Management

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Reference #JL-17066

MetOcean Telematics is a leading global provider, designer, and manufacturer of satellite and cellular IoT enabled solutions. MetOcean\'s products span across oceanographic and environmental monitoring equipment, defence, and security markets. For more than four decades they have assisted domestic and international customers with developing and integrating Iridium hardware into a wide range of devices and applications, designed innovative hardware products, and created industry leading software and situational awareness solutions. MetOcean Telematics ensures critical data is created, transmitted, received, processed, analyzed, and visualized in the fastest and most reliable manner possible anywhere in the world.

On behalf of our client, we are currently recruiting for a Director of Product Management to join their team of dedicated professionals in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Reporting to the CEO and President, the Director of Product Management will work to understand the needs and challenges of customers, translate those insights into ideas for investment and new product development or existing product enhancement. The Director of Product Management is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, monitoring performance, recommending adjustments to pricing or promotion to counter competitor responses and working with customers to identify potential enhancements. The Director of Product Management will work closely with engineering and sales to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are achieved. This role supports the growth of MetOcean. Their company\'s commitment to developing state-of-the-art solutions, coupled with their focus on niche MetOcean and custom Defence and Security products not only helps them connect the world, it also connects them to new possibilities and new opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities:

• Help feed and facilitate the product idea generation, evaluation and go to market processes.
• Be an expert within MetOcean\'s market segments.
• Actively pursue provincial and federal government R&D funding opportunities.
• Possess both the technical expertise and business acumen to ensure strong financial performance on new product ideas.
• Monitor the market health of the existing portfolio and recommend changes or deprecation.
• Propose new product ideas based for near and long-term market opportunities.
• Help build the product and technical roadmap.
• Work directly with customers to solicit market information to vet market requirements for new products and services.
• Bring approved activities/projects into product development.
• Own and facilitate the go to market process.
• Facilitate sales and marketing training on new products and services.
• Additionally, manage the Technical Support and Sales Support teams.
• Build working relationships with industry partners, organizations, and institutions.
• Manage pricing and margins across all product lines.

Education:

• Bachelor\'s or master\'s degree in engineering.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant product management experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Minimum 5 years experience in managing people and teams.

Qualifications:

• Experience in Security, Defence, Satellite Communication and/or Environmental.
• Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal and project management skills, including developing effective cross-organizational and vendor relationships.
• Solid technical background former hands-on experience as a software developer or hardware designer.
• Successful examples of bringing new products and solutions to market.

Competencies and Attributes:

• Research skills.
• Strong communicator.
• Analytical.
• Data Driven.
• Customer focused.

To express interest in this opportunity please apply online directly by clicking \'Apply Now\' below.

If you have any questions, please contact Brittany Beale, Consultant, at bbeale@kbrs.ca or Jeff Lanthier, Partner, at jlanthier@kbrs.ca. If you require accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know.

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