What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager Visibility Solutions position at ASSA ABLOY?
An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Product Manager Visibility Solutions!!
Location: Austin, TX
Job ID: 43297
The Product Manager – Visibility Solutions, is responsible for defining and driving the strategy, development, and lifecycle performance of a comprehensive solution portfolio that integrates hardware, software, and services into cohesive, market-ready offerings. This role ensures that each solution delivers measurable customer outcomes while advancing the company’s strategic and financial objectives
Who are we?
HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.
We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees. Check us out here: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo
Identification Technologies (IDT):
IDT is creating trusted identities for IoT applications through Smart Components and Enabling Services.
HID’s Identification Technologies powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things through smart components and cloud services. We make it possible for people and organizations to transact safely, work productively, and travel freely. Our contactless identification and sensing (RFID, NFC, and BLE) components and solution enabling technologies address the dynamic requirements across multiple industries to wirelessly connect, identify, collect and manage data quickly and accurately across virtually any IoT application.
As our Product Manager Visibility Solutions, you’ll support HID’s success by:
- Ensuring the portfolio reflects strategic markets, customer value, and profitable growth opportunities.
- Prioritizing based on market needs by regularly assessing customer problems and emerging trends to align the portfolio to high-growth, high-relevance segments.
- Defining and validating solution-market fit by confirming how the integrated solution (hardware software services) delivers measurable outcomes.
- Differentiating segment coverage by ensuring portfolio elements provide clear value across verticals or customer tiers (entry, mid, premium).
- Evaluating lifecycle value by considering revenue, customer lifetime value, and retention contributions.
- Maintaining portfolio health by balancing innovation, enhancement, and legacy phase-outs.
- Building interoperable, scalable, and modular solutions that deliver outcomes, not just components.
- Driving platform and modular design through common frameworks that enable re-use (software APIs, hardware platforms, data layers).
- Developing an interoperability roadmap with clear integration paths for ecosystem partners (sensors, gateways, middleware, analytics).
- Harmonizing technologies by reducing duplication and creating standardized solution building blocks.
- Enabling the ecosystem by defining partner interfaces and certification processes to expand solution compatibility.
- Optimizing profitable growth and disciplined resource allocation.
- Prioritizing investments based on ROI, linking decisions to financial return, market impact, and strategic value.
- Managing portfolio P&L accountability by tracking revenue, margin, and attach-rate performance by solution family.
- Rationalizing low-value SKUs or overlapping offers and sunsetting them appropriately.
- Aligning resources across R&D, marketing, and sales enablement with top strategic bets.
- Ensuring the portfolio can be effectively sold, delivered, and supported as a complete solution.
- Packaging solutions through bundles or subscription models that simplify buying and deliver full outcomes.
- Equipping sales enablement with value propositions, pricing, and competitive differentiation at the solution level.
- Coordinating cross-functional readiness with sales, delivery, and partners for scalable deployment.
- Maintaining reference architectures as validated solution templates for repeatable customer use cases.
- Ensuring solutions create measurable value for customers.
- Defining outcome metrics using customer-centric KPIs (uptime, throughput, safety, cost avoidance, etc.).
- Creating feedback loops using customer input, telemetry, and usage analytics to guide enhancements.
- Measuring ease of deployment, integration complexity, and time-to-value.
- Integrating sustainability and compliance considerations (lifecycle, ESG, regulatory) into solution design.
- Enabling the portfolio team and ecosystem to deliver consistently and adaptively.
- Driving cross-functional governance through clear decision frameworks for prioritization and resource allocation.
- Maintaining transparency with portfolio dashboards (revenue by segment, attach rate, innovation mix).
- Applying agile program management to deliver solution value iteratively.
- Collaborating with partners by aligning roadmaps and lifecycle management with strategic technology or service partners.
Your Experience and Background include:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field preferred
- 7 years of product management or technical commercial product experience with proven track record of successful product launches
- Previous experience in hollow metal doors and frames manufacturing or commercial building products highly preferred
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite and product development processes
- Ability to translate complex market research into actionable product strategies
- Exceptional skills in articulating vision and requirements to diverse technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities while leading cross-functional teams to deliver results
- Natural enthusiasm for solving meaningful customer problems through innovative product solutions
- Ability to travel throughout US, Canada, and Mexico approx 30% of the time
What we can offer you:
- Competitive salary and rewards package
- Competitive benefits and annual leave offering, allowing for work-life balance
- A vibrant, welcoming & inclusive culture
- Extensive career development opportunities and resources to maximize your potential
- To be a part of a global organization that is pioneering the hardware, software and services that allow people to confidently navigate the physical and digital worlds
Why apply?
- Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
- Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
- Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.
HID does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. We are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
HID is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce that reflects the global communities we serve. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. Our goal is to create a workplace that empowers everyone to thrive and be their authentic selves, fostering an environment of mutual respect and inclusivity. If you have a disability and require assistance or accommodation to participate in the application process or to perform essential job functions, please contact accommodations-ext@hidglobal.com.
We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.
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