Product Manager

Who Is Spectralink?

Headquartered in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with offices in the U.K. and Denmark, Spectralink is a global company with a common vision and mission to empower excellence by enabling mobile work forces worldwide. We are a small company that takes pride in being a giant in our industry.

Spectralink provides cloud-connected, best-in-class Wi-Fi smart phones that enable excellence by empowering mobile workers like nurses, manufacturing workers and retail sales associates to do their job better than ever. As the global leader in purpose-built wireless communications, we’ve deployed over 3 million devices to customers around the world. Our dedication to listening and understanding the needs of the customer is the core of our business while our people, commitment to innovation and passion are the foundation of our success.

Want to know the best thing about working for our company? The people. Working at Spectralink means joining a team of dedicated, hard-working and passionate innovators. It means collaboration and communication among industry experts with the utmost integrity and vigilance. With under 200 employees worldwide, everyone has the same opportunity to make powerful contributions every day. If you possess the skills and qualifications listed below and are eager for a great opportunity, we would like to hear from you.

About the Position

This is an ideal position for an ambitious and smart individual to join one of the world's most innovative companies in the enterprise mobility space.

We empower our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that our customers love that also work for our business. Our product teams are cross-functional and durable.

We staff our product teams with the skills necessary to deliver with effective solutions that are valuable (our customers choose to buy or use), viable (the solution works within the many constraints of the business), and feasible (our engineers have the skills and technology to implement). While the engineers are accountable for ensuring the solution is feasible, the product manager is accountable for ensuring the solution is both valuable and viable. A successful product manager at Spectralink will be able to manage the customer requirements and expectations via engineering team deliverables, and also ensure the business success of their products via driving commercial terms and market positioning and price.

While we empower our product teams to figure out the best solutions to the problems that need to be solved, we also hold those teams accountable to the results. Shipping is necessary, but not sufficient. We are looking for product a manager that is not afraid of signing up for results, even when this means they have to work through others to achieve the necessary results.

This job, as with the other roles on the product team, is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through your use of data and logic.

This position requires ownership, a high level of initiative, great attention to detail, ability to learn quickly, ability to drive complex projects to success, proven leadership skills, an ability to work with geographically distributed sales teams, top-notch communication and inter-cultural skills.

Necessary Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery in a B2B environment.
• 5+ years working on technology-powered products and a proven background as a product manager. Experience in android devices is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with multiple functional areas of business – engineering, design, finance, sales, and marketing.
• Demonstrated ability to solve hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative.
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, marketing, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, agile development environment and manage multiple, concurrent priorities and projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead customer and market research – size, trend, and segments.
• Gather customer feedback to understand key issues/needs and trends in customer base.
• Conduct technology trends analysis with Engineering to get a broader sense of the market, competitive, and alternative solutions.
• “Own” the product’s user experience and act as the product evangelist.
• Create a vision & strategy that aligns with corporate strategy.
• Thoroughly analyze all buy, build and partner options.
• Maintain the product roadmap that articulates the vision & high-level capabilities.
• Manage the product lifecycle from inception to retirement.
• Maintain pricing strategies, identification and strategies for channel deployment, and cost reductions opportunities.
• Articulate validated market requirements for product enhancements.
• Support product release planning, define, scope, and scheduling.
• Drive Beta success criteria, and support planning and execution including onboarding beta sites.
• Ensure Services are trained and ready to support beta and GA releases.
• Oversee competitive positioning and support sales enablement materials.
• Support Marketing for training of sales channels teams to drive successful customer engagements.
• Support Spectralink and partner sales teams with customers and events.
• Report project status on a regular basis to internal project teams and management.
• Drive quarterly business reviews with the executive team and internal stakeholders.

Education and Experience Required

A BS in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). MBA or MS a plus.

Desired Skills:

• Experience designing and building great user experiences on both the web and mobile devices.
• Deep technical understanding of one or more of: Smartphone product design, Wi-Fi Networks, LTE Networks, SIP Protocols, ODM-based product development, Android.
• Familiarity with building devices for Healthcare, Retail, Hospitality or Manufacturing verticals is preferred.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%

Location: Boulder, CO (Hybrid and fully remote options are available)

What We Offer

At Spectralink you’ll have an opportunity to work in an established, profitable company on well-respected and globally distributed products. We have an incredibly dedicated and passionate team with supportive and involved executive leadership as well as a renewed focus to continue dominating our industry.

Here are some other benefits that we offer:

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K plan with a company match
• Possibility of a hybrid remote, in-office working experience or a well-supported fully remote option
• PTO accrual and paid holidays
• Excellent focus on work/life balance

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand or sit for extended periods of time
• Ability to bend, squat, climb stairs and lift frequently
• Must be able to travel long distances in a plane or car
• May occasionally be required to lift up to 20 pounds
• Must be able to talk, listen, and speak clearly on telephone calls and in virtual meetings

In Conclusion

When you look us up, you’ll find that we have been around for a while and have had quite an amazing ride. From an IPO to an acquisition, and now coming full circle with the tremendous opportunity to be back on our own, we are excited about what our future holds for us here at Spectralink.

Join us and be part of this next great chapter!