Associate Director - Collar Product Manager
Merck
6 months ago
Remote friendly (San Diego, CA)
United States
Marketing
Vence Collar Product Manager
Responsibilities
- Own and manage the Vence collar throughout its entire product lifecycle.
- Define collar vision/strategy focused on value, business outcomes, and user experience.
- Create market valuations, value propositions, and business cases for new concepts/capabilities; identify unmet customer needs and market opportunities.
- Lead customer discovery, problem definition, value hypotheses, and product experiments.
- Partner with the Collar Technology Lead on technical prototypes/feasibility experiments.
- Execute customer insight strategies (surveys, farm visits, customer advisory boards) and build relationships with customers/field/commercial stakeholders.
- Translate insights into a prioritized backlog and outcomes-based roadmap.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure end-to-end delivery, adoption, retention, and growth.
- Drive release planning, manufacturing, go-to-market execution, and ongoing product support; establish customer success/support models.
- Own unit economics/cost targets; maintain/prioritize the product backlog; define/calibrate product metrics and run business reviews.
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related.
- 10+ years relevant experience; 5+ years product management of hardware or IoT products.
- Experience in a product operating model (continuous discovery, outcome-based planning, empowered cross-functional teams).
- Ability to work across functions; solve complex constrained problems; lead via influence; strong communication/collaboration.
- Hardware-development familiarity (NPI, DVT/PVT, manufacturing ramp-up, field validation).
- Willingness to travel to customers.
Preferred
- Financial management; requirements/solution architecture; strategic planning/system design.
Skills (required)
Business reviews; client-centric; cross-functional collaboration; customer insights/success; emerging technologies; end-to-end management; market valuations; operating models; product lifecycle/management/strategies.
Benefits (explicit)
- Medical, dental, vision, other insurance; 401(k) retirement; paid holidays; vacation; compassionate and sick days; annual bonus and long-term incentive (if applicable).
Application
- Apply at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via Workday Jobs Hub). Apply by the deadline stated on the posting.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage the Vence collar throughout its entire product lifecycle.
- Define collar vision/strategy focused on value, business outcomes, and user experience.
- Create market valuations, value propositions, and business cases for new concepts/capabilities; identify unmet customer needs and market opportunities.
- Lead customer discovery, problem definition, value hypotheses, and product experiments.
- Partner with the Collar Technology Lead on technical prototypes/feasibility experiments.
- Execute customer insight strategies (surveys, farm visits, customer advisory boards) and build relationships with customers/field/commercial stakeholders.
- Translate insights into a prioritized backlog and outcomes-based roadmap.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure end-to-end delivery, adoption, retention, and growth.
- Drive release planning, manufacturing, go-to-market execution, and ongoing product support; establish customer success/support models.
- Own unit economics/cost targets; maintain/prioritize the product backlog; define/calibrate product metrics and run business reviews.
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related.
- 10+ years relevant experience; 5+ years product management of hardware or IoT products.
- Experience in a product operating model (continuous discovery, outcome-based planning, empowered cross-functional teams).
- Ability to work across functions; solve complex constrained problems; lead via influence; strong communication/collaboration.
- Hardware-development familiarity (NPI, DVT/PVT, manufacturing ramp-up, field validation).
- Willingness to travel to customers.
Preferred
- Financial management; requirements/solution architecture; strategic planning/system design.
Skills (required)
Business reviews; client-centric; cross-functional collaboration; customer insights/success; emerging technologies; end-to-end management; market valuations; operating models; product lifecycle/management/strategies.
Benefits (explicit)
- Medical, dental, vision, other insurance; 401(k) retirement; paid holidays; vacation; compassionate and sick days; annual bonus and long-term incentive (if applicable).
Application
- Apply at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via Workday Jobs Hub). Apply by the deadline stated on the posting.