Lead Product Manager, Connectivity / Gateways

Verkada Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 205,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs

Vision and dental coverage

HSA with employer contributions

FSA with tax saving options

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Equity opportunities

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Lead Product Manager to own and grow the company's Gateway product line, focusing on making gateways the enabling layer for unwired deployments and building depth and revenue through a flagship product.

In this role you will collaborate across remote cameras, security trailers, transportation, intercoms, and access products to deliver connectivity-as-a-service, define pricing, and drive market adoption while improving margins.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management, preferably in B2B networking, connectivity, embedded systems, or IoT.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar quantitative field. MS, PhD, or MBA optional
• Proven history of launching and scaling products and businesses. Strong customer intuition, technical depth, and ability to navigate tradeoffs are critical to success in this role.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (LTE/5G, Wi-Fi, WAN failover, SIM/carrier management), plus foundational knowledge of firmware, device bring-up, and hardware design
• Ability to build platform and recurring-revenue business models, with a structured approach to ambiguous problems like data plan pricing, carrier economics, attach-rate modeling, and ROI analysis
• Excited to roll up your sleeves and get out of the office. You'll spend time with installers, integrators, and customers deploying in unwired environments. You’ll use that insight to shape the product

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and execution for the company's Gateway product line
• Own and expand the gateway roadmap across reliability, fleet-scale cloud management, and new connectivity options and form factors.
• Partner with product lines across the company (remote cameras, security trailers, transportation, intercoms, access) to deliver connectivity‑as‑a‑service and drive ecosystem attach
• Define data plan and pricing strategy that improves both customer adoption and the company margin

Skills

Product management

B2B networking

Embedded systems

IoT

Networking fundamentals

Pricing strategy

Field engagement

Education

B.S. in CS or EE

MS/PhD or MBA optional

Job description

Who We Are

the company is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and the company is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million the company devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

the company's Connectivity products secure people and property in remote and edge environments. Our Cellular and Wi-Fi Gateways bring the company's full platform including threat detection, deterrence, and real-time visibility, anywhere it's needed. the company Gateways enable cameras, intercoms, access control, and sensors to be deployed in locations without stable internet or power.

We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to own and grow the company's Gateway product line. In this role, your mission is twofold: make gateways the enabling layer that unlocks every unwired the company deployment, and build the product depth and business model that grows Gateway into a flagship product.

What You’ll Do

• Own strategy and execution for the company's Gateway product line

• Own and expand the gateway roadmap across reliability, fleet-scale cloud management, and new connectivity options and form factors.

• Partner with product lines across the company (remote cameras, security trailers, transportation, intercoms, access) to deliver connectivity‑as‑a‑service and drive ecosystem attach

• Define data plan and pricing strategy that improves both customer adoption and the company margin

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in product management, preferably in B2B networking, connectivity, embedded systems, or IoT

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar quantitative field. MS, PhD, or MBA optional

• Proven history of launching and scaling products and businesses. Strong customer intuition, technical depth, and ability to navigate tradeoffs are critical to success in this role.

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (LTE/5G, Wi-Fi, WAN failover, SIM/carrier management), plus foundational knowledge of firmware, device bring-up, and hardware design

• Ability to build platform and recurring-revenue business models, with a structured approach to ambiguous problems like data plan pricing, carrier economics, attach-rate modeling, and ROI analysis

• Excited to roll up your sleeves and get out of the office. You'll spend time with installers, integrators, and customers deploying in unwired environments. You’ll use that insight to shape the product

Employee Benefits

the company is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well‑being needs. Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans

• Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage

• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options

• Expanded mental health support

• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time

• Professional development stipend

• Wellness/fitness benefits

• Healthy lunches provided daily

• Commuter benefits

Additional Information:

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At the company, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A the company employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$205,000-$240,000 USD

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