Product Manager

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 builds the network and endpoint technology that powers advanced metering and grid-edge solutions for utilities worldwide. As Product Manager for a device product line, you own the market requirements and product intent for a family of metering or IoT endpoints — deciding what to build and why, and carrying that product line across its full lifecycle from concept through general availability to end-of-life. The ideal candidate would have domain experience in Electric Metering (electric meters and metering communications modules, including integration of third-party meters) or Multi-Commodity & Smart City (gas and water metering plus smart-city / IoT endpoints such as streetlight controllers and sub-metering).

About the organization

Trilliant offers a universal communications platform that is at the convergence of the smart grid, smart city, and global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. We bring together multi-technology solutions, global capabilities, and mission-critical communications to deliver future-proof solutions. We are a device-agnostic, integrated, multi-technology communication platform that provides flexibility to balance technological capabilities with economic needs. Trilliant is committed to best-in-class solutions that empower our customers and their customers to connect to the world of things. We are an equal-opportunity employer offering comprehensive benefits and compensation packages with a selection of insurance programs. We have dynamic and collaborative work environments with some of the brightest employees in the world. We invest in people and provide opportunities for our employees to grow hand in hand with our business.

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.

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 — electric metrology; ANSI C12 and/or IEC metering; revenue-grade metering; metering communications modules; and integration of third-party meters.
• Multi-Commodity & Smart City — gas and/or water metering (encoder/register technology, battery-powered endpoints); and/or smart-city IoT such as streetlight control nodes, sub-metering, and sensor endpoints.

Education/Certification;

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer, or mechanical engineering, computer science, or a closely related technical field — or equivalent professional experience.

Values

PASSIONATE‑We find the right solutions for customers and exceed their expectations.ACCOUNTABLE‑We work smartly and tackle problems with urgency to get the job done.CONFIDENT We look to the future and partner with each other to deliver world-class solutions.ENERGIZED‑We are excited and support the growth and direction of Trilliant.