Sr Product Manager, Home Devices - Speakers

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

Dolby’s consumer entertainment and cinema businesses are bringing Dolby’s breakthrough technologies, powering the world’s top movies, TV shows, music, games, and live sports to more places around the world across a wider range of consumer experiences and devices.

Dolby is seeking a seasoned, Senior Product Manager to lead a newly formed team that is focused on driving product innovation around speakers in the home. As speakers get increasingly smart, there are abundant opportunities for Dolby to enable incredible new experiences to our large ecosystem of partners that build speakers of any kind. Last year, Dolby introduced Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, technology that gives users the freedom to place wireless speakers anywhere in a room, enabling an incredible Dolby Atmos experience without having to place speakers in prescribed (canonical) positions. In addition to location, FlexConnect adjusts for differences in speaker capabilities, allowing “mix and match” scenarios that have been impossible until now. With the massive growth in Dolby Atmos Music, Dolby Atmos isn’t just for movies and TV! There is increasing demand to bring Atmos music experiences everywhere in the house. The person in this role will own the FlexConnect business and product, including strategy, product, licensing programs, pricing and partnerships.

Beyond FlexConnect, we believe that there is a significant, long-term opportunity to bring the magic of Dolby experiences to more users by eliminating user friction and replacing it with simplicity and quality. The person in this position will lead the effort to expand Dolby’s offerings with solutions that enable Dolby experiences to everyday listening and build a future where every wireless speaker is better because it contains Dolby technology. They will be responsible for defining new offerings that bring new functionality and value to the any speaker, increasing the percentage of speakers that are smart and connected.

The position reports to the VP of Home Devices and is based at Dolby HQ in San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

• Take Dolby Atmos FlexConnect launches in 2024 and build a large and thriving business.
  • Support partnership and sales activities to enable our device partners to add Dolby Atmos FlexConnect to their wireless speaker offerings.
  • Develop pricing programs that balance revenue and adoption.
  • Work closely with Marketing and GTM teams to drive the most value from launch moments
  • Work closely with the sales team to build a robust pipeline, gather feedback for future version and drive to a committed revenue plan.
  • Aggressively identify opportunities for improvement. Establish processes and metrics to measure effectiveness and drive products or operational improvements. Identify synergies across the portfolio to streamline our product offering.
  • Provide vision and market direction input to engineering and technology teams to develop new technologies and products for the FlexConnect ecosystem.
  • Collaborate across the company (development, QA, technologies group, technical publications, sales, sales-ops, marketing, finance, legal, and program management) to ensure the success of your product.
• Define and build the future of FlexConnect
  • Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for the FlexConnect portfolio. Synthesize ideas on strategy, planning and execution of next generation products, building consensus and driving execution.
  • Manage the product roadmaps and specification of requirements while driving execution across the organization and making strategic tradeoffs. 
  • Create an environment where great ideas a