Create awesome experiences for our customers.
Our team and what we’ll accomplish together
Our Connected Home Hardware team researches, ideates, designs, develops, and manages consumer technologies to make our customers' interaction with TELUS services faster, seamless, and more reliable. Whether finding new ways to connect consumer devices, advancing product form factors, or improving machine-to-human interactions, our team focuses on improving our customers' lives by making technology simpler and friendlier.
We work closely with our engineers, marketing teams, industrial designers, and manufacturing partners to manage products from conception to launch and retirement. We support Optik TV, internet access hardware, Boost Wi-Fi, SmartHome, and more.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Technical Product Manager - SmartHome in the TELUS Connected Home Hardware Team, you will manage a portfolio of hardware devices and develop new products for our SmartHome service. You will assess and evaluate TELUS’ current and future SmartHome portfolio to ensure the proper product mix for products including IoT hubs, security cameras, security and life safety sensors, door locks, lighting controls and thermostats. To achieve this, you will manage the end-to-end product lifecycle for your product portfolio. You will define the overall strategy, product roadmap, and technical/feature specifications for our products based on long-term product vision, user needs, technical and market trends, and platform capabilities.
Specifically, you will:
- Serve as the subject matter expert on competitor products, vendor roadmaps, IoT protocols, Wi-Fi protocols, smart home technologies, home security and automation technologies, telecommunications standards
- Develop product roadmap and the in-home deployment architecture for current and new products
- This includes market research (technology, consumer, competitor), product design (industrial design, packaging, mechanical design, features, useability, and onboarding), requirements documentation, and coordination with engineering teams (RF, mechanical, software, and FW)
- Engage with and get buy-in from several stakeholders and partners, both internally and externally, on your proposed product roadmap
- Create, maintain, present, and get approval for business cases that support your product roadmap from all leadership levels
- Evaluate mechanical design, RF design, CMF (colour, material, finish), and production decisions as part of the product development process
- Lead all internal and external teams for product launches and ongoing management, including vendors, engineering, systems and ordering, app development, marketing, logistics, and supply chain
- Create, maintain, and share project plans and schedules for new product development with all leadership levels, both internally and externally
- Maintain strategic partnerships with various hardware, silicon, and software vendors
