Country Product Manager - (Nordics)
Wallbox, Norway
Job Description
Wallbox is a global scale-up from Barcelona, born in 2015 and dedicated to changing the way the world uses energy. We create smart charging systems for electric vehicles that combine cutting-edge technology with an outstanding design, because we believe that design is as essential as technology. And in order to provide an integrated experience, the communication between the car and the charger is managed via an easy-to-use App.
Wallbox operates in over 40 countries and has offices in Barcelona, Madrid, China, and the US. We are a team of dreamers, doers, and makers, working worldwide to lead the path to sustainable electric transportation. More than 200 dedicated experts of over 20 different nationalities work together on achieving this goal.
Our Silicon Valley office is located in Mountain View, CA and is responsible for sales, service, and operations for the US, Canada, and Mexico. We are building our core team and hiring the future leaders for our business in North America.
We are powered by a culture of trust and innovation, something we have to earn every day by living up to our values. This culture has shown to be rewarding in many ways - amongst them, the creation of the world’s first bidirectional charger, the Quasar, and the recognition as the best of CES 2020 in transportation technology.
At the end of the day, working at Wallbox is at the same time challenging, fun and rewarding. If you like the idea of a dynamic environment, desire to work alongside an incredibly talented, fast-growing team and believe in the future of sustainable transportation, this is the place for you.
Wallbox will further continue its expansion into global markets. Therefore the product department seeks to integrate specific market insights.
You will support the creation of a world-class product management discipline and team, maintaining close relationships with Global Product Managers and Product Owners.
For the Nordics markets that means:
- Understand current Wallbox portfolio
- Understand user and market needs
- Align the specific product strategy and roadmap in the assumption of a worldwide product family with regional variants.
You will be the strategic partner while:
- Shepherd products from ideation to development, monitor product health throughout its life, and collaborate in the EOL and transition in your region.
- Identify strategic market gaps to develop new product concepts
- Work with Technology team to identify emerging technologies and trends to incorporate into the product roadmap
- Provide product-offering content to the marketing organization for the creation of collateral, sales tools and marketing programs and events and drive the winning proposition. Participate in RFI and RFQ, plus defense.
- Work internally with operations, finance, risk, legal and other BBH functional areas on the planning and execution of an specific strategic product development roadmap
- Generate a comprehensive product region reporting with quantitative and qualitative data.
You will be accountable for:
- accomplishing your KPI which will be business, reliability and product margin oriented.
- manage a cost reduction plan in view of OEM needs where the product margin is key
- developing product concepts and region strategy together with the global product manager.
- designing the product region roadmap, based on improving or developing functionalities to ensure that products must have to compete in its range in the market, as well as to face the regulations. Short and medium-term vision.
- follow up the overall project plan. Keep dates and maintain close communication within development (Engineering) and manufacturing (Operations), among other departments service, sales, quality.
Requirements
Technical expertise: Able to push back on engineering estimates and understand technical constraint without needing to consult a teammate. They represent the engineering team when talking to other functions like design, legal, and sales. Engineering skills will be highly appreciated to discuss product’s technical architecture.
Hardware knowledge on power electronics field or devices. Either consumer electronics or automotive related.
Software needn’t necessarily to be a software expert, but should have the technical acumen necessary to prioritise projects. A core understanding of product complexity from a code perspective ensures proper team collaboration, respect, and expectations. Maintaining a reliable code base is just as important as shipping new features to customers.
Data-driven, quick decision making. Product managers are the decision-makers when it comes to user experienceand given the time-sensitivity often associated with user issues, PMs must be able to mak