Product Manager | Hardware (f/m/d)
$65,650–$65,650 year
HybridVienna, Vienna, Austria
Job Summary
Own the product strategy and roadmap for the SPS hardware portfolio, driving innovation through customer discovery, trade fair attendance, and hands-on user-centric research. Define and prioritize hardware initiatives by balancing customer value, cost, manufacturability, certification, and technical feasibility while working at eye level with Hardware Engineering. Manage the full product lifecycle from concept and business case through launch, ramp-up, and structured phase-out, including pricing and portfolio performance. Create roadmaps, business cases, and product reports for internal and external stakeholders, coordinating roll-outs with Sales, Marketing, and Support to ensure successful market launches. Act as the internal product expert and ambassador for the hardware portfolio, building alignment across technical, commercial, and operational partners.
Required Qualifications
- At least 4 years of product management experience with physical products
- Fluency in both German and English (written and spoken)
Desired Qualifications
- ideally in medtech, healthtech, or voice productivity solutions
- Experience with dictation hardware
- a strong startup or scale-up background
- the can-do energy to build things from scratch and move fast
- Enough technical understanding — or the demonstrated ability to grasp hardware quickly — to communicate at eye level with hardware developers
- A structured, analytical mindset combined with the drive to get out of the building and talk to users
- A proven track record of driving innovation and product discovery
- someone who leads initiatives rather than waits for them
- energizes a team around a clear direction
- Ability to translate complex user needs into clear product decisions and priorities
- Strong stakeholder management across technical, commercial and operational partners
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