Lead the strategy, development, and lifecycle of next-generation in-store hardware platforms including handhelds, kiosks, POS terminals, and embedded payment peripherals.
Drive consolidation of hardware portfolio under the Genius brand to ensure a unified merchant experience across SMB, retail, and enterprise channels.
Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Payments, Marketing, Sales, Support, and Certification teams and manage global ODM partners on design, production, and certification.
Define product requirements, manage roadmaps, enable go-to-market readiness, and oversee product lifecycle from concept to end-of-life.
Own, manage, and communicate the roadmap for assigned hardware devices and device management (MDM) platforms; conduct competitive analysis; prioritize features and manage delivery costs.
Develop go-to-market packaging and launch strategies, define pricing strategies, and build comprehensive business cases; present recommendations to senior leadership.
Partner with engineering, QA, IT, legal, procurement, marketing, and payments teams to define product goals, requirements, and certification milestones.
Lead market research processes and facilitate requirements workshops with merchants, dealers, and enterprise clients; document outputs as PRDs.
Collaborate with technology architecture, ODM partners, and certification bodies (PCI, EMV L1, L2, L3, FCC, CE, UL) to validate designs and direct testing.
Requirements
Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management or MBA (or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience).
6–8+ years of product management experience, ideally in POS hardware, payments, IoT devices, or related in-store technology.
Proven experience bringing hardware products from concept to market (roadmap, prototyping, testing, launch, lifecycle).
Demonstrated ability to work with offshore OEM/manufacturing partners, BOMs, NREs, and certification cycles (e.g., PCI, EMV, CE/FCC/UL).
Strong external-facing experience with merchants, enterprise clients, dealers/resellers, or channel partners.
Track record of cross-functional leadership, driving alignment across engineering, QA, marketing, sales, legal, procurement, and support.
Technical acumen with the ability to translate merchant and market needs into product requirements and engineering deliverables.
Preferred: Experience in a software development or hardware-software integration environment, background in embedded systems, firmware, or payment software integration, familiarity with Agile methodologies, direct experience with device testing and certification cycles, professional services or client-facing experience, understanding of omni-channel ordering and payment flows.