Product Manager - Readers

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions; Paris; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading company in access control solutions seeks a Product Manager for their Readers portfolio. This role involves end-to-end management, ensuring product success through innovation and strategic initiatives, working with global teams. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in product management, especially in electro-mechanical systems and RFID technologies.

Prestations

Flexible work environment

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in Product Management.
• Ability to manage embedded hardware/firmware products.
• Knowledge of contactless RFID beneficial.

Responsabilités

• Lead and drive activities for reader and reader-devices.
• Define and deliver actionable product requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies.

Connaissances

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Market-focused mindset

Effective communication

Formation

Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related

Outils

CRM tools like Salesforce

Product management tools like Jira

Description du poste

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• Mid-senior level
• Travel Required: 31%-60%
• 26-Sep-2025

An Amazing Career Opportunity fora Product Manager- Readers !!

Location: Cardiff , Krakow , Austin

Job ID: 33245

As a Product Manager - Readers, this role will focus on end-to-end management of readers and reader-devices within the HID Physical Access Control Solution (PACS) reader portfolio.

The role is an inter-disciplinary position that bridges the product with development, operational, commercial, and support teams to provide best-in-class products and customer experience.

To be successful in the role, the candidate must have experience (minimum 5 years) in product management with an emphasis on electro-mechanical and embedded firmware systems, preferably within the RFID and physical access control industry.

You will be expected to take lead and drive initiatives to maintain, support, and ensure the success of reader products assigned to your remit. You will work in a global team with Business/Epic owners, Product Owners, Engineers and Operations professionals.

If this sounds like you keep on reading !!

Who are we?

HID Globalpowers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

Join our winning team, Physical Access Control Solutions (PACS) at our Cardiff location.

The PACS business is highly visible and one of our most significant portfolios within HID Global. The PACS products include smart cards, mobile access and identifications, software, services and controllers for physical access control.

As our Product Managers- Readers, you will support HID’s successby:

• Lead and drive activities for reader and reader-devices withing the portfolio, with the goal of delivering unique solution benefits with superior customer experience.
• Drive innovation, continuous improvement, and differentiation to the portfolio by understanding internal and external customer needs, market problems, competitive positioning and technology trends.
• Ensure execution of portfolio initiatives are aligned with the broader reader roadmap, strategic vision, and business priorities and aspirations.
• Manage change to the reader product vision and roadmap based on the broader PACS strategic themes and solution visions.
• Define and deliver clear and actionable product requirements that address internal, external, and market problems for which value can be extracted.
• Drive outcomes, institute a results-oriented mindset, develop and implement metrics that evaluate effectiveness of the product line in relation to lean budgets and guardrails.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, using Agile SAFe methodologies, to align marketing, sales, and product unit teams to drive revenue growth and/or profitability.
• Develop and execute comprehensive Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies for end-to-end lifecycle planning of the reader product lines.

What we will love about your background:

• Ability to make difficult trade-offs with intelligent risk taking.
• Market focused mindset and ability to anticipate changes in business needs.
• Strategic thinking and effective management on complex projects.
• Pro-active, hands-on and self-motivated, strong documentation skills.
• Demonstrate cross-functional leadership with Sales, Quality, Finance and Operations.
• Ability to challenge the status quo and drive a culture of change through Change Management.

YourExperienceand Education include:

• Bachelors Degree – Engineering or related (Master degree is beneficial but not required).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Product Management, or a similar role.
• Experience managing embedded hardware/firmware products, or similar IoT/Wireless devices.
• Knowledge of contactless RFID in the physical access control and/or physical security industry is beneficial.
• Product development expertise from concept to product launch.
• Product management experience across multiple customer types, technologies, development methodologies, standards and regulations.
• Excellent communications skills, able to convey complex information clearly, as appropriate for the topic and audience.
• Effective communication in the English language, both verbally and in writing.
• Familiar with CRM tools and analysis such as Salesforce, Oracle-EBS, Oracle-PLM, etc.
• Experience with product development and product management tools, such as Jira, TestRail, and Miro is beneficial.
• Experience with Agile development and lean innovation practices.
• Training in SAFe such as Implementing SAFe and / or SAFe POPM.

Why apply?

Empowerment:You will work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise.

Innovation:You embrace challenges and want to drive ambitious change.

Integrity:You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly.

HID Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.

When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.