Senior Director, Product Management

About

The EAT RFID Business Unit is expanding beyond traditional physical access into new markets, launching a Standard RFID Reader Product Line for people and item authentication- especially in Healthcare and Industrial sectors. As Senior Director of Product Management, you’ll set the vision, build the roadmap, and lead the full product lifecycle while driving cross-functional execution. You’ll shape strategy, align global teams, identify market trends, and guide a high‑performing product organization to deliver innovative, commercially successful RFID solutions that strengthen HID’s market leadership.

Who are we?

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. IDT is creating trusted identities for IoT applications through Smart Components and Enabling Services. HID’s Identification Technologies powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things through smart components and cloud services. We make it possible for people and organizations to transact safely, work productively, and travel freely. Our contactless identification and sensing (RFID, NFC, and BLE) components and solution enabling technologies address the dynamic requirements across multiple industries to wirelessly connect, identify, collect and manage data quickly and accurately across virtually any IoT application.

Responsibilities

As our Senior Director, Product Management, you’ll support HID’s success by:

• Managing the entire product line life cycle, ensuring optimum EAT RFID Standard Reader & Modules positioning
• Scrutinizing the market, competition, and trends by conducting research, visiting customers and partners, and attending trade shows to align strategy
• Building and leading a team of Product Managers, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning to ensure organizational capability
• Developing and supporting go‑to‑market plans in partnership with Sales, Product Marketing, and MarComm, while defining and communicating the long‑term product vision and multi‑year strategy, including portfolio rationalization and investment priorities
• Creating market‑relevant new products and solutions
• Driving reuse and economies of scale for products, technologies, and platforms
• Applying data‑driven methods for prioritizing and planning requirements
• Evangelizing products and solutions in partnership with Marketing and Sales Support teams
• Ensuring regulatory compliance and prioritizing product‑related risks, including certifications, cybersecurity, IP strategy, and supply chain continuity
• Collaborating across Business Units to align strategies, drive technology reuse, and deliver integrated, unified solutions
• Proposing major new functionality (Epics) using Lean Portfolio Management processes
• Prioritizing Features using SAFe processes with Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, and Business Owners
• Coaching Product Owners and ensuring acceptance of Stories supporting priority features
• Supporting SAFe Product Owners with story writing and prioritization for designated scrum teams
• Updating the roadmap with plans and priorities from LPM and PI Planning
• Owning product/solution line profitability (Gross Contribution)
• Participating in bid processes—costing, pricing, and solution proposals—while acting as Go/No‑Go gatekeeper for the Product Line
• Supporting Sales with pre‑sales activities including specifications, recommendations, white papers, customer visits, and competitive analysis
• Establishing and maintaining executive‑level relationships with strategic customers to gather intelligence, validate direction, and ensure success; participating in and initiating partner negotiations
• Participating in required Product Management and BU reporting
• Representing the company in professional associations and industry events

Qualifications

Your Experience and Background include:

• Hold a BA or BS in related field. MBA is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years+ of experience in Product Management and Marketing, with 5 years+ in the IoT & RFID industry
• Experience in lean and agile development methodology (ideally SAFe certified)
• Solid leadership and management experience, including strategic thinking, innovation, coaching and mentoring, scaling and collaboration
• Understanding of market and competitive environment including deal activity and potential opportunities.
• Good reasoning ability to investigate and analyze information and draw conclusions.
• Ability to work cross functionally and collaboratively to achieve desired busin