Product Manager – Embedded Systems

acetech embalagens; Tullamore; On-site; EUR 58,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary (€58,000–€68,000)

Performance-related bonus (5–10%)

Health insurance

Defined contribution pension (5% employer match)

Professional development budget

Job summary

ACETECH in Tullamore is seeking a Systems Thinker for developing critical systems for emergency responders. The role involves converting customer insights into actionable requirements, managing complex inter-team dependencies, and ensuring successful product launches.

The ideal candidate has 2–3 years of experience in multi-component product development and is familiar with Agile practices. The position offers a hybrid working model and competitive benefits, reflecting ACETECH's commitment to impactful, mission-driven work.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years in multi-component product development across hardware and firmware.
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
• Understanding of embedded system constraints and concepts.

Responsibilities

• Conduct customer discovery interviews with emergency responders.
• Convert insights into structured use cases and automated testing scenarios.
• Manage interconnected backlogs across multiple engineering teams.

Skills

Product development

Agile methodologies

Communication with engineering teams

Customer discovery

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

The Mission

When an ambulance rushes to a scene, seconds matter. At ACETECH, we build the "nervous system" of emergency vehicles—the intelligent hardware, firmware, and cloud software that keeps them running, connected, and safe.

Our in-vehicle controls give crews command over lights, sirens, and critical systems. Our cloud platform transforms vehicle data into real-time insights. Our asset tracking ensures equipment never gets left behind.

Every system we build has one purpose: to help emergency responders do their job better, faster, and safer.

The Role

We aren't looking for a ticket-pusher or a single-product owner. We need a Systems Thinker—someone who can sit comfortably at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and cloud and translate chaos into clarity.

You will take the messy, critical needs of emergency responders and turn them into crystal-clear, automated, and testable requirements that our engineers love to build. You will orchestrate across teams, challenge assumptions, and ensure every piece of the puzzle fits together before work even starts.

This is not a just project-management role. It is a product engineering role where you make engineering possible.

What You'll Do

• Customer Discovery: Conduct interviews with paramedics, station managers, and operational teams. Uncover the real problems buried under layers of process and workarounds.
• Requirements Mastery: Convert messy customer insights into structured use cases and bulletproof user stories with acceptance tests that engineering can automate. Your stories will be so clear that engineers ask fewer questions, not more.
• Multi-Team Orchestration: Manage interconnected backlogs spanning hardware modules, firmware versions, and cloud services. You'll map dependencies, flag risks, and keep three teams in sync when their work is deeply intertwined.
• Pilot Leadership: Define what success looks like before you ship. Design pilots with clear metrics, run Go/No-Go gates, and ensure every launch is backed by compliance evidence and customer confidence.
• Standards & Auditability: Understand how ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and EN 18031 translate into better artefacts, better tests, and audit-ready evidence. Make compliance an enabler, not a blocker.

You'll Love This Job If...

• You get a genuine kick out of seeing your work driving down the street with flashing lights.
• You hate ambiguity. A well-groomed, dependency-mapped backlog makes you smile.
• You aren't intimidated by hard tech. You want to understand CAN bus signals, firmware constraints, power budgets, and how it all fits together.
• You thrive in a structured Agile environment but aren't dogmatic about it. You know why ceremonies matter, not just that they do.
• You care about the mission. Emergency services are unglamorous, critical, and rarely celebrate their wins. You're okay with quiet, life-saving impact.

What We're Looking For

Essential

• 2–3 years in multi-component product development. You've worked across at least two engineering disciplines (hardware + firmware, or firmware + cloud). You know what it feels like when three teams depend on each other.
• Agile artefact mastery. You've written user stories, acceptance criteria, and interface specs that engineers actually used to build products. You understand the difference between "clear enough" and "clear enough to automate."
• Embedded systems literacy. You don't need to design circuits, but you understand the constraints: power budgets, thermal limits, communication latency. You can have a meaningful conversation with a firmware engineer about why something is or isn't feasible.
• Jira & Confluence fluency. You treat them as a source of truth, not a checkbox. You maintain version history, links, and decision rationale like it matters (because it does).

Desirable

• Vehicle electronics or automotive experience. CAN/LIN protocols, sensors, vehicle-specific compliance—bonus if you've lived this.
• Emergency services exposure. You understand the operational reality of ambulances, fire trucks, or police dispatch. You know what "always on" actually means.
• Standards awareness. You've worked in an ISO 9001 or safety-critical environment. You know how compliance feeds into design, testing, and evidence gathering.

Why ACETECH?

Innovative, Mission-Driven Work: You're not building another SaaS dashboard. You're building the systems that give emergency responders the tools to save lives. That's not corporate spin—it's the reality.

Collaborative Engineering Culture: Our hardware, firmware, and cloud teams run true Agile. No waterfall. No endless specifications. You'll work in a squads-based structure where your job is to unblock engineering, not bog it down.

Learning & Development: We invest in your growth. Mentorship from senior engineers, dedicated training budget, and exposure to everything from embedded systems to cloud architecture. You'll leave ACETECH more capable than you arrived.

Hybrid Flexibility: Based in Tullamore with a hybrid working model (typically 2–3 days on-site). You'll have the structure and collaboration of a physical team with the flexibility of remote work.

Great Benefits

• Competitive salary (€58,000–€68,000 depending on experience).
• Performance-related bonus (5–10%).
• Health insurance and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Defined contribution pension (5% employer match).
• Professional development budget.