Job Summary:

We are seeking a commercial/industrial product manager who will be a leader supporting the

sales team generating requirements, specifications, and a product roadmap to continue to lead the industrial lithium battery market.

The ideal candidate will be eager to learn, creative, resourceful technical problem solver, highly self-motivated, and have a strong background in one or more of the mechanical, electrical, or software development areas with knowledge of lithium-ion battery technology. They should be capable of reading mechanical drawings and/or electrical schematics, reviewing CAD files (SolidWorks), reviewing analysis results, and communicating technical topics to engineers and customers.

This is a fast-paced and challenging position that requires someone who is confident in their ability to lead, communicate, and make well-reasoned decisions under tight deadlines. The candidate’s ability to demonstrate strong interpersonal and capable of rapidly integrating technological capabilities with application requirements.

Essential/Key Functions:

•  Work with customers, distribution, sales, service, supply chain, operations and engineering interface and interact with all aspects of the business to take develop and execute a product strategy to continue to be a market leader
• Work with business development to assist in understanding the markets pain points and needs, and developing a product that addresses the needs of the market
• Lead, coordinate, review, and evaluate product requirements in terms of specifications, cost

  targets, features, operational needs, environmental requirements

• Work with project stakeholders and end-users to elicit, understand, analyze, and document the requirements for a system

• Investigate “parent” requirements and generate “child” requirements
• Perform requirements traceability
• Conduct regular status and coordination meetings both internally and with customers
• Review customer-specific requirements, develop market broad systems and product family architectures and roadmaps, create/derive requirements, iterate and make product trade off decisions based on bottlenecks, costs, schedules, new technical learnings, customer feedback

Job Description

•  Perform market analysis such as competitive market pricing, features, and incorporate into the consideration of the requirements
• Assist in marketing and sales material development
• Support new business development with commercial and industrial motive customers including product requirements, timing, and budgets
• Responsible for the products ability to meet the customer's needs through out the product life

  cycle

• Participate in cell selection, pack assembly, and battery testing with other members of the

  organization

• Articulate and apply the companies advanced technologies, product features, and benefits to

  customers

• Provide technical support and new product introduction handoffs to the sales organization
• Identify relevant technical issues that pertain to individual customer applications; elevate

  product issues within the organization and address via corrective preventative action reports

• Provide solutions to customer’s needs that match with the company’s current and future product offerings

   

  Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or another technical field required
• 5+ years of experience in high tech product development
• A lithium-Ion battery or Lift Truck experience (desired but not required)
• Excellent communication, creative technical problem solving, and interpersonal skills
• Strong leadership, organizational, and motivational skills required
• Proficient in MS Office, Outlook, Project
• Able to create and manage requirements; manage a project to closure
• Self-motivated individual comfortable making challenging decisions and leading a fast-paced

  development

• Experience in a system’s engineer role
• Experience in architectural frameworks and development
• Knowledge in FMEAs, DVP&Rs, and sequence/context diagrams
• Knowledge in Life Cycle Management, APQP, and PPAP processes
• Knowledge of Lithium-Ion batteries, Electronics, or Electrical components a plus
• Up to 20% travel