Product Line Manager Network Gear

The Network Gear Product Management team manages the hardware that enables secure reliable connectivity between mesh endpoints and Itrons backoffice systemscapabilities that are critical to customers ability to deploy Grid Edge Intelligence solutions at scale. This Product Line Manager role leads the Network Gear portfolio and a small team of Product Managers with accountability for translating strategy into clear executable product plans. The role owns the roadmap for nextgeneration Network Gear and ensures disciplined lifecycle management across the portfolio from new product introduction through sustainment and endoflife.

This is a highly collaborative customercentric leadership role within a technology company serving the Utilities & Energy sector. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds who are passionate about building impactful products to apply.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the portfolio and roadmap (accountable innovative): Define communicate and sequence a multiyear hardware strategy for routers gateways and related network components that integrate seamlessly with firmware software and mechanical systems aligning with customer needs and business outcomes.

• Translate strategy into execution (agile accountable): Lead the conversion of product vision and market insights into clear requirements prioritized backlogs and executable product plans that deliver value at scale.

• System integration leadership (collaborative authentic): Champion endtoend system interoperability across hardware firmware software and mechanical domains guiding architecture decisions that balance performance power cost reliability manufacturability and serviceability.

• Technical tradeoff management (innovative accountable): Drive datainformed decisions by leading formal trade studies and maintaining decision records that transparently balance competing technical and business constraints.

• Crossfunctional leadership through influence (collaborative): Partner closely with systems hardware firmware software mechanical engineering supply chain operations finance quality and field teams to deliver products on schedule at target margin and with high customer satisfaction.

• Lifecycle ownership (customer centric): Own the full product lifecycle including requirement definition business cases new product introduction (NPI) launch readiness production ramp costdown initiatives sustaining activities and endoflife transitions.

• Customer and market insight (customer centric authentic): Engage with utility customers and internal stakeholders to translate customer needs regulatory requirements and industry standards into actionable product requirements.

• Financial stewardship (accountable): Manage key P&L levers including list pricing cost targets (BOM NRE COGS) volume assumptions and warranty exposure ensuring sustainable business outcomes.

• Quality and reliability partnership (accountable collaborative): Work with Engineering and Quality teams on verification and validation environmental and regulatory compliance and field issue triage to continuously improve product reliability and customer trust.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience designing developing and deploying complex systems in a technologydriven environment.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence crossfunctional teams building alignment through collaboration clear prioritization and welldefined decision frameworks.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical and business concepts to diverse audiences in an inclusive and authentic manner.

• Proven accountability for delivering customerfocused outcomes in dynamic fastevolving markets.
  

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience working with electric gas or water utility customers including exposure to AMI/DA systems industry standards and utility procurement or qualification processes.

• Handson familiarity with hardware development cellular technologies (LTE/5G) edge computing and IP networking; comfort reviewing schematics thermal and power budgets and firmware interfaces.

• Mastery of core Product Management skillsfrom discovery through deliveryincluding portfolio management business casing and outcomeoriented prioritization in agile environments.

• Passion for innovation and continuous improvement in support of reliable secure infrastructure for the Utilities & Energy sector.
  

Benefits Info:
This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial social health and wellbeing programs paid vacation 401k matching employee stock purchase program hybrid work schedule and more!

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