Product Manager – Fire Products

Location: Santa Barbara, CA, United States; primarily office-based with work at manufacturing facilities, customer sites, training environments, trade shows, and field-testing locations. Business travel of approximately 20–25% may be required.

Salary: $140,000–$175,000 per year, plus a 5–10% bonus and equity/options.

What you will do

• Own product strategy, roadmap planning, lifecycle management, and prioritization for fire products.
• Conduct market assessments and customer research with firefighters, fire departments, distributors, and other fire-market stakeholders.
• Define users, use cases, value propositions, features, performance requirements, user experience, and packaging.
• Translate market and user needs into product requirements while managing feature, cost, schedule, and technical tradeoffs with Engineering and Design.
• Lead cross-functional product execution from discovery and development through launch, sustaining activities, and end-of-life.
• Develop go-to-market plans, support product launches, track performance, and recommend corrective actions or follow-on investments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management or closely related product development experience.
• Experience managing physical products through the full lifecycle; hardware and integrated software experience is strongly preferred.
• Ability to understand technical tradeoffs and risks and collaborate with Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Quality, Customer Service, and Finance.
• Strong strategic, analytical, financial, organizational, communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, Product Management, or a related technical field; a technical degree is preferred.
• Ability to work in Santa Barbara, California, with business travel and occasional work at customer, manufacturing, training, event, and field-testing locations.

Nice to have

• Experience in thermal imaging, fire service products, public safety, rugged professional equipment, or adjacent markets.
• Global manufacturing, supply chain, or procurement experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, design, commercial, operations, quality, customer service, and finance functions.
• Direct engagement with customers, channel partners, sales teams, and executive leadership.
• 5–10% bonus opportunity and equity/options in addition to base salary.
• Work includes customer visits, field research, industry events, product testing, and internal collaboration.