Product Manager - Power Controls and Emergency - ETC

ETC’s Marketing team is looking for a Product Manager to guide product development efforts with our power control and emergency product lines. This position serves as the voice of the market for ETC’s power control and emergency products. The Product Manager will perform market research to understand the practical needs of the user and to understand the regulatory and code environments required by this market segment. Technical acumen is required to be comfortable with both the history of our product lines and the forward-facing excitement to drive future innovations in a rapidly changing industry. This position requires confidence in public speaking, tactful written and verbal communication with internal and external customers, flexibility, and technical expertise to understand past, present, and future product capabilities.

Work location is preferred to be in Middleton, WI, though there are potential options for a well-qualified candidate. This position requires up to 20% travel, primarily domestic, with the occasional travel to our international offices, markets, or tradeshows.

ETC offers a generous time off policy of 4 weeks in your first year, healthcare benefits on day one, and retirement options via 401k with employer-match, and we’re 100% employee-owned through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Our Middleton office provides an onsite fitness center, an at-cost deli, and health and wellness professionals and programs.

Representative Responsibilities:
• Product and Business Development
• Assist with the management of existing products as assigned with supervision from other Product Managers
• Research and document requirement for new products with assistance from others
• Represents product management team on R&D development teams.
• Documents user stories and needs
• Participate in product development discussions, with assistance
• Analysis – Forecasting - Research
• Monitors cost of production, profit margins, sales revenue, project progress
• Research competitive products and compiles comparative reports
• Interviews and documents customer research
• Assists with creating product line sales forecasts
• Communications
• Identifies customer groups for communications.
• Identifies product training objectives and delivers some training classes
• Public Speaking/Demo
• Performs product demonstrations as needed.
• Presents products at trade show.
• Public speaker on behalf of product line with assistance
• Regular travel (up to 20%)
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Completes special projects and requests in a timely and positive fashion

Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree or 8 years of comparable business experience in increasingly responsible positions in the related discipline
• All levels of job-related experience in sales, marketing, technical services, projects or other relevant experience will be considered
• Experience with ETC or competitors’ products beneficial
• Experience with theatrical or architectural lighting beneficial
• Demonstrates good written and communication skills
• Able to ask insightful questions and listen
• Comfortable public speaker
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Able to work in a team environment
• Basic computer skills