Director, Product Management

The Elevator Pitch

Join us as a Product Manager at Evolv, a mission-driven company dedicated to creating safer experiences for everyone. This pivotal role offers a leadership position to lead and direct our portfolio offering focused on concealed weapons detection with primary ownership of hardware and automated software for a major offering in Evolv’s screening portfolio. Candidates with a physical security industry and technology background, who understand emerging security pain points & ecosystem players, who are innovative, and are looking to bring compelling next generation offerings to market as part of the Evolv family of products will thrive. The ideal candidate brings structured thinking, a strong bias for action, and the ability to imagine and develop new offerings that are focused on driving unique customer value.

This multidisciplinary product leader will execute our vision for making gathering spaces more intelligent and secure and who will partner with Evolv’s executive leadership, engineering, sales, marketing, and our customers in developing the most impactful outcomes possible. They will own the product-line vision, develop the roadmap, work with our engineering and data scientists to build the solution(s), and engage customer-facing teams to expand the reach and critical impact of this portfolio offering. At Evolv, your contributions will shape cutting-edge products that make a real difference, ensuring the safety and security of communities worldwide.

Success in the Role: What are performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

Within the First Month:

• Participate in Evolv ED, our new hire orientation.
• Gain complete familiarity with Evolv’s existing portfolio of Express Concealed Weapons Detection system and Evolv Visual Gun Detection offerings.
• Spend time with our product teams including sensors, insights, cloud management and digital to understand the broader value proposition to our customers and the role your products will play.
• Meet as many Evolvers as possible (including the executive leadership team) to understand their roles, functions.
• Familiarize, and be comfortable articulating, Evolv’ s 3-year strategic plan.
• Suggest some solution opportunities in the current product with fresh outside-in experience from other companies and industries. These may include known customer needs and pain points, gaps in existing products, UI usability, or application of technology that could be incorporated to add value to customers.
• Author at least one Product Requirement Document (PRD), showcasing your ability to detail requirements that reflect an understanding of market/customer needs with articulated outcomes.
• Build relationships with and establish close and frequent communication with your Technical Product Manager counterpart, the team of Technical Product Owners and all immediate R&D co-workers.

Within the First Three Months:

• Visit customers within Evolv’ s primary market segments to understand their challenges, pain points, and how Evolv can address them. Includes participation in scheduled Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meetings.  
• Successfully participate, engage, and start to lead the offering ‘s market release cycle set of activities.
• Provide a point of view for the strategic direction and long-term business outcome for the Evolv offering.
• Develop relationships with the Evolv Innovation Center (EIC) and Digital Teams to understand how they can help identify and evaluate new market, product, and technical opportunities.
• Gain a thorough grasp of the existing Evolv Express security application / partner integrations and develop a point of view on how your offering’s data stream could be leveraged from them as well as other 3rd party sources.
• Present to the executive leadership team your initial point of view on the current state and envisioned strategic direction of the portfolio, as well as general Evolv observations, areas for improvement, and opportunities.

By the End of the First Year:

• Establish yourself as the go-to person SME for the portfolio product direction for both internal people, customers and other external influencers
• Develop the long-term vision for the portfolio and what the next Evolv product offering should be. Bringing innovation and outside-in thinking to the suite of products with defined customer outcomes.
• Recommend and implement methods to optimize Product Management outcomes and identify improvement opportunities through automation, tools, and data.
• Develop and advocate for a PM team structure and resource plan under you to execute the go forward product vision and requirements definition for your portfolio.