Hardware Product Manager

Okra Solar; Porto; Presencial; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A pioneering energy technology company is looking for an experienced hardware Product Manager to design and scale electronic products targeting global energy access. This role involves interpreting customer needs, managing product risks, and ensuring quality performance in challenging environments. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in product management within power electronics or IoT, and demonstrate strong decision-making and leadership skills. Join us in making a tangible impact on energy accessibility in underserved communities.

Qualificações

• 5+ years in hardware product management, preferably in energy systems or industrial IoT.
• Experience in early-stage companies or startups.
• Ability to use basic hand tools and testing equipment.

Responsabilidades

• Interpret customer and regulatory needs into functional requirements.
• Manage risks and prioritize execution for product vision.
• Gather feedback to iterate on product features.

Conhecimentos

Product management

Power electronics

Leadership

Decision-making

Communication

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in engineering or science

Ferramentas

Basic hand tools

Test measurement equipment

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Overview

At Okra Solar, we’re on a mission to bring Power to the People by unlocking opportunities through energy access for everyone in the world. Over 650 million people still live without electricity. We believe access to energy is the first step toward opportunity and growth as technologies like mobile devices, productive agritech, and AI become more accessible. We build Mesh Grid technology that energizes off-grid households at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. We develop hardware and software that we sell to local energy companies who deploy our tech to deliver affordable, reliable electricity as a service to last-mile communities.

We are looking for an experienced hardware Product Manager to join our team in Porto and help design and scale several hardware electronics products in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach areas. If you’re excited about owning real hardware (cost, quality, failures and all) to create tangible impact and want to shape the future of energy access, you could be the right person to join us.

Responsibilities

• Product requirements: interpret and translate customer/regulatory/commercial needs into functional requirements and collaborate with engineering to translate into technical requirements.
• Make tradeoffs, manage risks, prioritise and execute the vision for the products you manage.
• Navigate pressures from engineering, supply chain and commercial teams and communicate clearly and proactively to all stakeholders.
• Bring a de-risking, cost-down, reliability, DFM, and scalability mindset from the get-go.
• Accountable for quality and field performance, define failure/warranty KPIs, and lead failure analysis efforts.
• Own target cost, BOM strategy, and margin assumptions.
• Work daily with hardware, firmware, manufacturing, supply chain, QA, and customer teams and build strong relationships.
• Gather feedback from customers, internal teams, and stakeholders to iterate on product features and enhancements, demonstrating a proactive approach to continuous improvement.
• Ensure market-specific regulatory/safety/certification requirements are aligned and met.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in hardware product management, ideally in power electronics, energy systems, embedded, consumer hardware, or industrial IoT.
• Experience in early-stage companies, startups, or fast-moving environments.
• Experience with volume manufacturing — yields, qualification criteria, and support for technical negotiations and supplier selection (ODM/OEM engagement).
• Product fundamentals — clear, testable requirement documents, roadmaps, milestones, and feature releases.
• Decision-making experience, especially in uncertainty — making tough decisions based on imperfect data, juggling tradeoffs across competing forces, evaluating and owning risk, comfortable saying no when needed.
• Strategic intuition — understanding how the industry landscape is evolving and how the product can be positioned.
• Leadership and communication — ability to make tradeoffs and communicate them effectively with data, inspire confidence, give clarity, and guide discussions effectively.
• Ability to use basic hand tools and test measurement equipment — comfortable disassembling and testing hardware.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in off-grid/rural or emerging markets, especially in the solar energy sector.
• Experience manufacturing in China.
• Bachelor degree in a relevant engineering or science field (e.g., electrical, mechanical, telecom, physics); however, real-world experience is valued highly.