Overview:
Hayward Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HAYW) is a global leader in pool and spa equipment, designing and manufacturing innovative solutions that enhance water experiences. As the world’s largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment, we continue to expand our presence in the commercial pool market. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Hayward operates facilities across the U.S., Canada, Spain, France, Australia, and China. This position is located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Hayward Industries designs, manufactures and sells a wide range of products needed to safely and intuitively operate and automate residential and commercial swimming pools. The Product Manager for Control and Automation will define and manage the lifecycle of technical, rapidly changing, commercial and consumer automation control products. They will provide cross-category user experience insights feeding product design as well as daily product and business management functions. This will include matrix management of cross-functional marketing, manufacturing, operations and engineering and market development teams. The Product Manager role is key to the success of various product lines with a primary focus on pool automation equipment. This position reports to the Director of Product Management for Connected Products.

Responsibilities:

• Perform user research and usability testing, analyze feedback and translate to use-cases, product requirements, features and roadmaps.
• Define and own product strategy for pool automation and control systems with a deep understanding of adjacent products, company objectives and market demands.
• Develop and maintain a 5-year strategic product roadmap including new product development, research opportunities and product rationalization. Ties to 3-year Business Plan
• Annually develops/updates rolling 3-year Product Line Business Plan including top-line revenue, sizing the total addressable market, market share, market penetration, product development, gross margin, operating income and strategies for achievement
• Collaborate with the Advance Engineering research pipeline to realize product platforming, technology evolution, and autonomous solutions.
• Integrate sensors, cloud-based data, mobile connectivity, and machine learning into automation platforms to achieve an autonomous and intuitive backyard experience.
• Monitor market changes and marketing needs, competitors’ product technology changes and manufacturing processes to recognize market opportunities for new and expanding products and identify marketing weaknesses.
• Becomes product line “Voice of the Customer” representative to all internal Hayward departments.
• Align strategy with the broader product categories in the context of the pool and backyard as a system.
• Represents Hayward to the industry as the expert for all aspects of automation products, ultimately establishing themselves and Hayward as the Industry expert for the business.
• Becomes product line “Voice of the Customer” representative to all internal Hayward departments.
• Leads product line marketing activity and development to optimize opportunity.
• Determines the effectiveness and impact on the company and provides reports and presentations to management.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Product Management, MBA preferred

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Computer proficiency in Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, Digital Marketing a plu

• Perform user research and usability testing, analyze feedback and translate to use-cases, product requirements, features and roadmaps.
• Define and own product strategy for pool automation and control systems with a deep understanding of adjacent products, company objectives and market demands.
• Develop and maintain a 5-year strategic product roadmap including new product development, research opportunities and product rationalization. Ties to 3-year Business Plan
• Annually develops/updates rolling 3-year Product Line Business Plan including top-line revenue, sizing the total addressable market, market share, market penetration, product development, gross margin, operating income and strategies for achievement
• Collaborate with the Advance Engineering research pipeline to realize product platforming, technology evolution, and autonomous solutions.
• Integrate sensors, cloud-based data, mobile connectivity, and machine learning into automation platforms to achieve an autonomous and intuitive backyard experience.
• Monitor market changes and marketing needs, competitors’ product technology changes and manufacturing processes to recognize market opportunities for new and expanding products and identify marketing weaknesses.
• Becomes product line “Voice of the Customer” representative to all internal Hayward departments.
• Align strategy with the broader product categories in the context of the pool and backyard as a system.
• Represents Hayward to the industry as the expert for all aspects of automation products, ultimately establishing themselves and Hayward as the Industry expert for the business.
• Becomes product line “Voice of the Customer” representative to all internal Hayward departments.
• Leads product line marketing activity and development to optimize opportunity.
• Determines the effectiveness and impact on the company and provides reports and presentations to management