Director of Product Management

Job Title: Director of Product Management

Location: Centennial, CO or Plano, TX (hybrid)

Company Overview:

At Iontra, our breakthrough battery charging solution is born from 9+ years of combined experience working with demanding energy storage applications, from the technical and commercial challenges of leading heavy-duty electric vehicle manufacturing to the complexity and extreme demands of space going and planetary exploration vehicles. Together our team has innovated to answer the needs of our customers for a plug and play solution that improves the performance of today’s lithium batteries. Our solution can be implemented quickly and inexpensively to improve customer experiences with any existing Lithium-ion battery-powered products. For more information on our latest news, visit: https://www.iontra.com/blog/iontra-closes-67-million-series-b-following-additional-29-million-investment/

Role Summary:

The Director of Product Management is responsible for the overall success of our product portfolio. Product portfolio may include both embedded (with OEMs, B2B) and direct to consumer (B2C). This role includes developing the brand and launch strategy for current products, ensuring that our current products meet the needs of our customers as well as leading the definition of future products. The Director of Product Management will also work closely with other departments, such as engineering, operations, marketing, and sales, to ensure that our products are successfully launched and scaled.  Finally, the Director of Product Management will ensure that the product roadmap fits within the financial constraints of the business plan.  The initial focus of this role will be on direct-to-consumer products.

You’ll love this job if you:

• Are driven to be part of a team doing big things to help our planet.
• Aspire to work with a successful veteran startup management team.
• Are a self-starter and always find ways to get your work done and help team members.
• Are an organized, detail-oriented person being very good at time management.
• Are determined and resilient to keep things moving forward at a startup pace.
• Are assertive and able to influence and partner with the team to get things done.
• Enjoy new challenges and change.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Develop and drive execution of a consumer product strategy exhibiting the following characteristics:
• Fully leverages Iontra innovation.
• Reinforces Iontra’s core values and brand.
• Excites investors.
• Focuses product development, services, and production for efficiency.
• Minimizes time to revenue and overhead burn.
• Is backed by solid competitive and systems analysis.
• Identify target markets/audiences, understand and develop value propositions backed by relevant market analyses.
• Drive product definition, branding and launch strategies.
• Identify key co-marketing and channel to market partners & ecosystem.
• Lead cross functional product requirements gathering.
• Work with engineering, marketing, sales, program management, production, and finance to ensure that products are developed and launched on time and within budget.
• Manage the product roadmap and track product metrics including ROI and profitability.
• Represent the product to internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and mentor a team of product managers longer term.

Requirements

You’ll Need These Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in product management
• Multiple successful consumer electronics product definition, execution and launches.
• Proven track record of success in leading product teams
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• MBA or equivalent degree, BSEE preferred.

Benefits

Benefits and Compensation:

Salary Range: $175k - $200k (salary is based on education, experience, skillset, and market value).

We offer the following benefits package:

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Holidays)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan plus company match
• Company Shares Plan

Iontra has an equal employment opportunity (EEO) policy that provides that no applicant or staff