Product Manager - Developer Tools (Mountain View, CA) - SmartThings
Mountain View, CA
About the Job
Description
We’re SmartThings, one of the leading IoT ecosystems in the world, creating the most effortless way for anyone to create a smart home. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, our corporate offices are based in Minneapolis and the Bay Area.
More than 270 million people worldwide use SmartThings to control and manage their connected life. SmartThings delivers simple, powerful experiences across Samsung’s leading portfolio of phones, TVs, and appliances, and we offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem. As a founding member of Matter, we are a leader in the industry to help make smart homes more secure, reliable and seamless to use.
Like the smartphone revolution, smart home technology is transforming the way we interact with the world around us. With SmartThings products, we’re reducing global emissions, improving service industries, and creating a safer, smarter planet. Come be a part of the transformation with us! Do the SmartThings!
SmartThings Culture & Ways of Working
SmartThings’ dynamic culture continuously moves forward with agility and determination, providing an opportunity for impactful contributions across all roles. Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is deeply ingrained in our core values, fostering a culture that values,celebrates, and honors the unique perspectives and experiences of every individual. Embracing inclusive practices, we strive to cultivate a work environment where everyone thrives.
At SmartThings, we’re creating immersive, interconnected experiences for both our customers and our team members. Our workplace mirrors this ethos, offering a versatile hybrid environment that nurtures personal connections and fosters collaborative efforts. It’s a place where we can harness the power of teamwork and also delve into focused solo work from the comfort of home a couple of days a week. Joining our team means being based in the vibrant Minneapolis/St. Paul area and working with us at our Minneapolis office three days a week, adding your unique touch to our collective journey.
About The Team
SmartThings is seeking a Product Manager to join the Ecosystem team, which is responsible for bringing a diverse collection of third party device and service partnerships to market with Samsung. The Product Manager will help define and drive initiatives aimed at evolving major areas of our third party developer offerings. You will own key areas of our product, requirements and functionality, defining and prioritizing features to add to the platform addressing developer known (and unknown) needs. This is an incredible opportunity to shape the next phase of SmartThings.
About The Role
As a Product Manager, you’ll work closely with cross-functional teams as you manage the product development lifecycle.This is an important and strategic role within the company that requires product thinking combined with technical depth to deliver the maximum tactical and strategic impact of our engineering capabilities, as the roadmap you define and bring to fruition will be fundamental to providing a third party developer experience for one of the biggest brands in the world. Key areas that you will own includes defining and prioritizing functionality to add to existing tools, SDKs, & CLI development tools, and scoping our next generation of integrated developer tools.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and refine a product strategy and roadmap for third-party developer tools, including APIs, SDKs, and command line and web-based tools needed to integrate with SmartThings.
- Conduct in-depth market research to understand emerging trends, collect customer feedback, and perform competitive analysis to continuously refine and evolve the roadmap.
- Cultivate strong relationships with third-party developers to understand their pain points and preferences.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to assess technical feasibility and prioritize development efforts based on potential impact and strategic value.
- Collaborate across departments, including engineering, business development, marketing, and executive stakeholders, to ensure consensus on product vision and priorities.
- Establish and monitor key success metrics and performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of developer tools, conducting data-driven experiments and analysis for continuous improvement.
- Clearly communicate product plans, benefits, and results to internal and external stakeholders through formal presentations and reports.
- Ensure organizational alignment and transparency by regularly sharing updates on product development progress and milestones.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Inclusive Hiring Practices
If your skills and experience are close to what we’re looking for, we encourage you to apply. We know that abilities can be developed in many different ways, and some of the most educational paths have twists and turns. Diversity of thought creates the most creative teams, and we’re passionate about adding new perspectives to the conversation at SmartThings. Even if you aren’t certain you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply!
What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)
What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)
- 3+ years in product management experience - B2B tooling experience preferred.
- Experience supporting product direction with an emphasis on day to day execution
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience working with stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Experience collaborating on product strategy, maintaining roadmaps, articulating requirements and managing product tradeoffs
- Experience operating independently while proactively identifying roadblocks and engaging leaders for assistance
- Strong intuition for product interaction and user experience
- Strong critical thinking and analytical/quantitative skills
- Strong sense of ownership, bias for action, urgency and drive
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to concisely communicate with and influence stakeholders, engineers, partner teams, and executives
Desired Skils
- Strong interests in the Internet of Things, home automation, and smart homes industry
- Experience with API-first solutions as an engineer or product manager
- Development experience with embedded systems and/or web-based applications
- International business and organizational experience
SmartThings Benefits
- We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health; an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match, and more.
- All of our employees enjoy unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave).
- Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program, and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through O’Reilly.
- Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work, and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.
Compensation for this role for a candidate based in Minneapolis is expected to be between $122,806 and $184,209
Source : SmartThings