Head of Product - Dartmouth, Canada - metOcean

metOcean

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Dartmouth, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Head of Product
Dartmouth, NS

MetOcean provides employees with excellent total compensation including profit sharing, a RRSP matching, 100% employer paid group benefits, extensive vacation, and personal days.

About Us:

MetOcean Telematics is a leading global provider, designer, and manufacturer of satellite and cellular IoT enabled solutions. MetOcean's products span across oceanographic & environmental monitoring equipment, defence, and security markets.

Role:

Reporting to the
CEO and President, the
Head of Product will work to understand the needs and challenges of our customers, translate those insights into ideas for investment and new product development or existing product enhancement.

The Product/Head of Product is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, monitoring performance, recommending adjustments to pricing or promotion to counter competitor responses and working with customers to identify potential enhancements.

The
Head of Product will work closely with engineering and sales to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are achieved.

Responsibilities:

Help feed and facilitate the product idea generation, evaluation and go to market processes.
Be an expert within MetOcean's market segments.
Actively pursue provincial and federal government R&D funding opportunities
Possess both the technical expertise and business acumen to ensure strong financial performance on new product ideas.
Monitor the market health of our existing portfolio and recommend changes or deprecation.
Propose new product ideas based for near and longterm market opportunities.
Help build the product and technical roadmap.
Work directly with customers to solicit market information to vet market requirements for new products and services.
Bring approved activities/projects into product development.
Own and facilitate the go to market process.
Facilitate sales and marketing training on new products and services.
Additionally, manage the Technical Support and Sales Support teams.
Build working relationships with industry partners, organizations, and institutions.
Manage pricing and margins across all product lines.

Education

Bachelors or master's degree in engineering.
Minimum 10 years of relevant product management experience in a fastpaced environment.
Minimum 5 years experience in managing people and teams.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience in Security, Defence, Satellite Communication and Environmental.
Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal and project management skills, including developing effective crossorganizational and vendor relationships.
Solid technical background former handson experience as a software developer or hardware designer,
Successful examples of bringing new products and solutions to market.

Competencies and Attributes: