Device Product Manager, Metering & IoT Endpoints

Trilliant Networks; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Trilliant Networks is seeking a Product Manager for a device product line to own market requirements and product intent, guiding an end-to-end lifecycle from concept to end-of-life. You will write engineering-ready specs and align roadmaps with strategic priorities, working with hardware/firmware teams and external partners.

You will partner with engineering and go-to-market teams to ensure device interoperability with our platforms, and will engage directly with utilities to validate

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in product management, technical product management, or product ownership, ideally for connected hardware, metering, or IoT devices.
• Demonstrated ownership of a product or product line across its full lifecycle, from requirements through general availability.
• Proven ability to author market and product requirements and translate customer needs into engineering-ready specifications.
• Experience working directly with hardware and firmware engineering teams and with external manufacturers, contract engineering, or integration partners, with the ability to drive collaboration toward a common project objective.
• Experience building and maintaining product roadmaps and managing competing priorities under real constraints.
• Customer-facing experience with utilities, energy, or comparable regulated-infrastructure buyers.
• Technical fluency sufficient to make sound trade-offs and write prescriptive requirements — comfortable with communications/RF concepts, device standards, and metering or metrology fundamentals.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to turn ambiguity into a clear, defensible set of requirements.
• Willingness to travel to customers, manufacturing and integration partners, and internal teams.
• Preferred domain experience (depth in either profile qualifies you for the corresponding opening; we do not expect one person to bring both): Electric Metering — metrology; metering standards; and/ or Multi-Commodity & Smart City — gas or water metering and/or smart-city IoT endpoints.

Responsibilities

• Own the market requirements and product intent for your device line, including the business case and a defensible answer to what to build and why.
• Author clear, well-structured market and product requirements, translating customer and market needs into engineering-ready specifications.
• Build, maintain, and communicate the product roadmap for your line, and keep it aligned to strategic priorities and commercial commitments.
• Partner with hardware and firmware engineering to turn product intent into buildable designs, and support manufacturer, vendor, and integration decisions.
• Manage the full product lifecycle — from concept and development through general availability to end-of-life — and the transitions between stages.
• Prioritize a constrained roadmap across new capability, sustaining work, and technical debt, and make and defend the resulting trade-offs.
• Own competitive and market positioning for your device line, and track the standards, regulatory, and certification requirements that apply to your commodity.
• Engage directly with utility customers and field teams to validate requirements against real-world deployment and drive adoption.
• Coordinate across product management, engineering, and go-to-market functions to ensure your devices interoperate cleanly with the platforms and solutions they are part of.

Skills

Product management

Hardware/IoT

Roadmaps

Stakeholder communication

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer, or mechanical engineering, computer science, or related field

Tools

RF concepts

Metering standards

Job description

Trilliant Networks is seeking a Product Manager for a device product line to own market requirements and product intent, guiding an end-to-end lifecycle from concept to end-of-life. You will write engineering-ready specs and align roadmaps with strategic priorities, working with hardware/firmware teams and external partners.

You will partner with engineering and go-to-market teams to ensure device interoperability with our platforms, and will engage directly with utilities to validate