Product Manager

We have a vacancy for a Product Manager who will be responsible for all aspects of certain product lines built and produced by Sonardyne. With the Product team but with a focus on monitoring/data products they will deliver solutions that meet Sonardyne’s customer needs.

The Product Manager will have a focus on efficiency whilst achieving product market fit. Work will be split between; discovery, long term strategy, and ensuring released products are constantly monitored and roadmaps are up to date and prioritised effectively. Typically, a Product Manager will work alongside a Project Manager and Technical Lead depending on the scale of the product development.

Sonardyne’s monitoring family of products include ADCP (Origin), SMART and RT6 and are used by scientists, engineers, and business teams to drive decision making across the energy, ocean science and defence. The Product Manager in this business stream will work to achieve growth and market fit by understanding user requirements, converting these to products whilst driving development and strategy alongside Business Development.

Your responsibilities will include:

• How and what data is collected in challenging environments by low power, remote and diverse sensors.
• How this collected data flows through standard data pipelines.
• Understand how and why the data collected data aids the user in interpreting the subsea environment.
• Work with Business Development to understand profitability of the product and drive the development to ensure market fit.

First three months:

• Understanding Origin and SMART product ranges
• Meeting users and understanding needs.
• Vision for connected products that make up the monitoring theme.
• Roadmap for the next two years.

Long term Product Responsibilities

• Regularly talking and listening to users (weekly/monthly)
• Regularly consulting the sales/business team
• Prioritising features and releases
• Monitoring product risks and reacting to support issues
• Being the internal and external advocate for the product
• Monitoring sales, margins and product viability
• Ensuring specifications are neat and do not contain bloat
• Monitor new product introductions, for market success
• Push innovation into products to ensure Sonardyne’s products are always one step ahead of competitors
• Ensuring Sonardyne’s products work together across product teams to give customer value

Day to day responsibilities

• Ensure processes across engineering are adhered to in line with quality system
• Become the internal expert and point of contact for a product
• Working with product team including project manager and technical lead

General:

• At Sonardyne Product Management is not Project Management
• A Product Manager does not need to be the technical authority

Occasional

• Testing & trials in Plymouth and at customer sites
• Attending trade shows and customer demonstrations
• Represent Sonardyne at a customer meeting or to third parties

The ideal candidate will have the following skills, knowledge and experience:

Essential:

• Worked with large datasets
• Writing Functional Specifications
• Presentation skills
• Understanding of UI design and UX
• Understanding of margins and profitability of products
• Understanding key selling points of products and what drives purchasing decisions
• Prioritisation of workload
• Prioritisation of features/user value
• Understanding user needs

Desirable:

• Experience with optimising large datasets
• Experience with Jira
• Software Development background
• Survey or subsea industry background
• Worked with Hardware and Software
• Understanding of underwater acoustics
• ADCP experience
• Understanding of Edge computing applications