Technical Product Manager

Do you thrive at the intersection of technology, customer needs, and product innovation? As a Technical Product Manager at BAPI, you will lead cross-functional initiatives, influence product strategy, and serve as a trusted technical expert, helping deliver industry-leading sensing solutions to customers around the globe.

Building Automation Products, Inc (BAPI) is a company that promotes work life balance. BAPI is a privately owned business with a global presence 

• Candidates authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
• BAPI does not provide employment visa sponsorship for this position.

Position Summary: The Technical Product Manager position adds value to BAPI and the Product Management Team by leading assigned projects and providing technical expertise about the functions and application of our products in the field.

Leading projects will require interacting with all departments, at all levels within BAPI and will often require interacting with suppliers and customers. Even though this position does not have direct reports, it does require directing and leading team members from other departments.

Benefits: Relocation reimbursement, full benefits which include Health, dental, vision, PTO, 8 paid holidays, 401k match and 100% vested at 90 days and more.  

Technical Product Manager Principle Responsibilities:

Lead and manage projects through BAPI’s Product Development Process  

1. Effectively interact with many departments to keep projects moving forward.
2. Coordinate all technical and project execution aspects of bid and proposal activities.
3. Create detailed execution plans and schedules for the team to ensure adequacy, completeness, and harmonization with the program level plan.
4. Anticipate problems and pro-actively revise project plans as needed to avoid or mitigate those problems.
5. Support Design for Manufacturing (DFM) initiatives in new product designs and product updates.
6. Review product designs and support the creation of test solutions that maximize testing effectiveness in both the development and production environments.  
7. Establish and maintain Project Metrics: Timelines, Deliverables, Project and Product Cost.
8. Serve as gatekeeper for projects ensuring that information presented to Stakeholders for decision making is accurate, concise, and appropriate.
9. Document, disseminate, manage, and resolve Stakeholders’ concerns pertaining to projects under consideration.

Support the Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) to analyze failure data and component obsolescence – proactively identify methods for preventing future failures and to drive component end-of-life decisions.

Assist sales staff with technical expertise in resolving customer issues with our products.

Write and publish technical support documents for existing and new products.

Technical Product Manager Education Requirements (R/Required, P/Preferred):

(R) Bachelor’s Degree 

• Degrees Preferred: Electrical/Electronics Engineering or any combination of school and experience

Training, Skills, Knowledge and Experience 

Specific Training in this field (R/Required, P/Preferred):

(R) Minimum 5-10+ years of work experience in HVAC/R Sensor and Wireless related technologies (eg: BLE, Zigbee, IoT)

(R) 3 or more years’ experience working in/with electronics

(R) 3 or more years’ experience managing project with Microsoft Project, or similar PM Software

(R) Strong technical background and experience working with customers in Wireless products area 

       as well as HVAC/R Sensor technology 

(R) Intermediate to expert computer skills required

(P) Android and iOS experience a plus

Experience/Knowledge in this field (R/Required, P/Preferred): 

(P) Prefer experience working with Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, & Refrigeration

1. Temperature Measurement and Indication
2. Humidity Measurement and Indication
3. Carbon Dioxide Measurement and Indication
4. Volatile Organic Compound Measurement and Indication
5. Carbon Monoxide Measurement and Indication