Product Manager II (Controls)

Location: Parkville, Missouri, United States. Work is primarily performed in an office setting with regular interaction with engineering labs, controls development environments, and manufacturing areas; occasional travel to customer sites, trade shows, industry events, manufacturing facilities, and technology partners may be required.

Company

hirify.global develops HVAC products and connected controls, embedded systems, cloud-enabled platforms, and digital services.

What you will do

• Maintain assigned portions of the product roadmap with product leadership and controls engineering.
• Translate customer, contractor, service, sales, and internal stakeholder needs into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and priorities.
• Coordinate initiatives across controls engineering, embedded and cloud software, hardware, cybersecurity, UX, manufacturing, service, marketing, and sales.
• Research connected HVAC systems, remote monitoring, diagnostics, analytics, predictive maintenance, energy optimization, competitive offerings, market trends, regulations, and industry standards.
• Develop requirements for onboarding, provisioning, connectivity, telemetry, alarms, dashboards, APIs, user roles, data access, reliability, and support workflows.
• Support business cases, pricing analysis, launch readiness, sales enablement, training, customer communications, and tracking of adoption, uptime, usage, satisfaction, revenue, and profitability metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, product management, business, or a related technical field. An engineering degree is preferred.
• Relevant experience in product management, product ownership, engineering, technical marketing, or a related field. Experience in HVAC, building automation, industrial controls, IoT, enterprise software, SaaS, cloud platforms, or connected-device environments is preferred.
• Practical understanding of HVAC systems, controls architectures, building automation, equipment communication, and connected-device ecosystems.
• Working knowledge of IoT platforms, cloud services, edge devices, telemetry, APIs, data analytics, dashboards, mobile or web applications, and SaaS business models.
• Ability to translate customer needs and technical constraints into clear requirements, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience supporting products through discovery, business case development, roadmap planning, development, launch, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement.
• Commercial judgment and ability to contribute to market assessments, competitive positioning, pricing analysis, adoption planning, and profitability reviews.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, data privacy, reliability, scalability, interoperability, and support considerations for connected products and cloud services.
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, analytical, organizational, and prioritization skills; ability to manage multiple initiatives, collaborate across functions, influence without direct authority, and escalate risks or trade-offs.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and product management tools, including roadmap, backlog, requirements, analytics, or product lifecycle management systems.
• Ability to perform critical thinking, structured problem solving, planning, trade-off analysis, and product decision-making across hardware, software, controls, cloud, customer experience, and business needs.
• Ability to sit, stand, or work at a computer for extended periods and interact with equipment, controls panels, engineering labs, and production floor environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration across technical and commercial functions.
• Work in office, lab, manufacturing, controls development, and production environments.
• Regular interaction with engineering, manufacturing, customer-facing teams, and external technology partners.
• Occasional travel supports product research, beta programs, field validation, customer visits, launches, and industry events.