Product Manager

About the Team:

Taara is focused on delivering high-throughput and long-range connectivity via free-space optical communication (FSOC) links that use light (eye-safe lasers) propagating between two terminals to wirelessly transmit high speed data. Learn more about Taara.

About the role 

Taara is looking for an experienced product manager with demonstrated talent for strategy, creativity, and execution. This is an opportunity to be a foundational member of the product team for an innovative suite of products. This role will be based in Mountain View, California with occasional global travel.

How you will make 10x impact:

• Synthesize diverse and sometimes competing/conflicting customer and market needs into coherent product requirements and prioritized roadmaps that enable engineers to build products and platforms at scale.

• Develop and articulate a product roadmap that prioritizes the customer experience with customer empathy, market insights, and strategic foresight

• Translate market and customer requirements into product features and requirements, and create detailed PRDs in collaboration with business, operations, and engineering teams

• Define the roadmap and features for the product by prioritizing feature requests across customers, market, competitive, innovation vectors

• Identify key metrics to determine product performance and measure success in the industry

• Apply data driven approaches to provide product analytics, business models, guide product innovation, and enable product development with clear priorities and buy-in across the team

• Craft effective communications about the product, the value proposition and positioning in the context of the competitive landscape

• Work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team, operating as a connecting point between engineering disciplines, operations, manufacturing, business and customer support teams  to drive the highest level of product execution.

• Create efficiencies in product delivery and innovative ways to deliver value to customers

• “Roll up your sleeves” and get stuff done as an independent self driven product manager with stage appropriate product management rigor

• Oversee and own the product plan, delivery, and release schedules

• Provide insights for the executive team on structuring and designing a product-centric organization that leads to customer and commercial success

• Analyze customers, competitors, and market trends to continually evolve the product strategy and roadmap and drive product innovation

What you should have: 

• MBA or PhD/Masters in science or engineering

• Strong technical knowledge with experience with wireless telecommunications/RF

• Strong background in software and hardware development, Application development, product management, and experience driving products from concept to launch is essential for success in this role.

• Solid understanding of Telco Networks, Network architectures, Traffic Engineering, BW management, QoS and  routing protocols.

• Startup experience, or equivalent experience on early stage teams

• Ability to influence without authority, working with technical and cross-functional teams who do not report into this role to get things done.

• Comfort with new technology and thinking outside the box to develop and implement short and long-term creative solutions.

• Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate to a wide variety of audiences at multiple levels of the company, managing relationships with both internal and external stakeholders

• 8+ years of product management experience, including any product experience with both software and hardware

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping technical products

It would be great if you also have these:

• Experience with product innovation, developing a product vision and strategy for new technologies or new technology categories

• Experience managing complex product lines with diverse customers in diverse geographical markets, in B2B or B2B2C setting in a mix of hardware and software

• Financial analytical skills, with ability to track metrics such as revenue growth, customer growth, and customer retention

• Executive presence, with the capability to balance conflicting product perspectives within the organization and between multiple customer segments

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 - $200,000 + bonus + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.