Director, Product Management Edge Operating Environment

We are looking for a Director of Product Management, Edge Operating Environment, to join our team. The position is Hybrid/Remote.

The Director of Product Management is a new position reporting to the head of Product. The right candidate will strengthen our competitive positioning across tiers from features, tools, power, performance, benchmarking, and cost perspectives, and use those to ensure that we have the best-in-class roadmap for our products.

Salary: 140,000 - 220,000 total compensation and location based.

Company Description

Lynx Software Technologies is the premier Mission Critical Edge company that enables safe, secure and high-performance environments for global customers in the aerospace, military, and federal markets. Since 1988, companies have trusted Lynx’s real-time operating system, virtualization and system certification experience, which uniquely enables mixed-criticality systems to be harnessed and deliver deterministic real-time performance and intelligent decision-making. Together with a growing set of technology partners, Lynx is developing a new class of Mission Critical Edge systems that keep people and valuable data protected at every moment. For more information, visit www.lynx.com.

Keys to Success

You will manage the Edge Software portfolio of the company consisting of hypervisor-based platform, market specific RTOS (e.g., DO 178), Cyber protection, Linux and the set of tooling enabling the development and deployment of the company product into the customer equipment. Additionally, the candidate will take the lead in creating an aggressive go-to market plan and developing a product road map. You will be highly collaborative with all functions in the company such as engineering, technology office, sales, finance.

Dir. Of Product Management Responsibilities

• Assessing trends and market requirements to translate into product roadmap.
• Execute through engineering the commit product roadmap

• Continuously evaluating the competitive landscape to ensure proper positioning
• Creating business case and ROI analysis to support the roadmap investments
• Create the product requirement, backlog for the engineering organization to deliver on time, on feature and on budget
• Supporting the marketing team to create marketing and sales enablement material
• Presenting the Product Portfolio at various customer facing, industry conferences events and partner meetings

• Working with the sales organization in supporting growth in the top strategic and lighthouse accounts
• Operating as a key member of the senior management team with a growth mindset, entrepreneurial spirit and sense of ownership and accountability

Requirements

Dir. Of Product Management Skills and Experience

• 15+ years of experience in Product Management for embedded or edge systems such as RTOS, development tools, middleware, Linux, software development pipeline.
• Mastering the creation of PRD, user stories, market sizing.
• Success in defining and releasing into the market at least 3 products in the past 5 years.
• Knowledge in A&D is preferable

• Extremely comfortable to engage with customer at all levels from engineer to senior business level positions.
• Great interpersonal communication skills and great speaker to represent the company during events
• Real competence in gathering market and competitive information and assimilating this into the company portfolio
• Hand on with ability to move easily between product, services, marketing, strategy, and technical discussions
• Natural influence management skills with the ability to establish strong, collaborative working relationships with several stakeholder

• Able to work with ITAR information when needed
• BSEE/CS or equivalent required, MBA a plus.
• 25 % Travel required

Benefits

Benefits

• Medical / Dental / Vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Flexible schedule
• 401k
• 401k Match
• Career growth and development opportunities
• HSA/FSA
• Commuter Benefits

Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We base our employment decisions entirely on business needs, job requirements, and qualifications—We have zero tolerance for any kind of discrimination, and we are looking for candidates who share those values. Here at Lynx, it is our mission to create and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, no matter what an employee's: Ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical ability, religion, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, national origin, veteran status thus providing a positive work employee experience.