Fire Products Product Manager — Hardware & Software

Seek Thermal, Inc

Goleta (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 175,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Seek Thermal, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager for Fire Products in Goleta, CA.

You will own strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for fire-market devices, working with Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Operations from concept to launch and sustainment. You will translate firefighter and market needs into differentiated requirements, drive go-to-market plans, and ensure delivery within time, cost, and quality targets.

Qualifications

5+ years of product management or closely related product development experience; hardware and integrated software experience strongly preferred.
Experience in thermal imaging, fire service products, public safety, rugged professional equipment, or adjacent markets is preferred.
Proven product launch experience; global manufacturing, supply chain, or procurement experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Seek Thermal fire products, balancing customer needs, market opportunities, competitive dynamics, technical capabilities, cost, and business objectives.
Conduct market assessments and identify opportunities for new products, product innovation, and enhancements across hardware, software, accessories, and the overall user experience.
Build a deep understanding of firefighters, fire departments, distributors, and other fire-market stakeholders through voice-of-customer research, field observation, surveys, prototype evaluations, field testing, and ongoing customer engagement.
Define target users, use cases, value propositions, features, performance requirements, user experience, and packaging in partnership with cross-functional teams.
Drive product planning documentation, including business cases, ROI analyses, MRDs, PRDs, competitive analyses, and launch recommendations.
Partner with Engineering and Design to translate market and user needs into clear product requirements, make informed feature/cost/schedule tradeoffs, and maintain alignment throughout development.
Lead cross-functional product execution for new product development and sustaining initiatives, helping teams deliver to agreed scope, schedule, quality, and cost targets.
Prioritize product requirements and development work across multiple projects and lifecycle stages based on customer impact, strategic value, technical risk, and business priorities.
Monitor competitive fire-market offerings, technology trends, customer feedback, field performance, and market changes; use insights to inform roadmap and product decisions.
Act as the voice of the customer and market in product decisions and work with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Customer Service to understand and prioritize field issues and sustaining improvements.
Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to develop go-to-market strategies, product messaging, training, sales tools, launch plans, and demand-generation activities for fire products.
Support launches and post-launch performance by defining success metrics, tracking business and product performance, gathering market feedback, and recommending corrective actions or follow-on investments.
Engage directly with customers, channel partners, and the sales team to support product discussions, demonstrations, field evaluations, and market-development activities.
Maintain effective communication with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders regarding roadmap priorities, product decisions, risks, tradeoffs, schedules, and performance.
Approximately 20-25% travel may be required for customer visits, field research, industry events, product testing, and internal collaboration.