Product Manager

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The Open Home Foundation is looking for a Senior Product Manager preferably based in Europe to join our Ecosystem department. This department is responsible for the development of all the projects except Home Assistant under the OHF umbrella, including ESPHome, Voice, Music Assistant, the Open Home Protocols (Zigbee/Z-Wave/Matter), our collaborations with other projects like WLED or Zigbee2MQTT, and any others that join us in the future.

As an open-source organization, being a product manager involves accounting for a large community of active users and contributors, balancing open-source collaboration with product leadership.

The Ecosystem department is seeking Product Managers across three key projects: ESPHome, Music Assistant & Sendspin, and Voice & Assist.

This position will likely be a combined role spanning a pairing of these projects (such as Music Assistant + Sendspin or ESPHome + Voice & Assist), with flexibility for other combinations depending on the candidate's strengths, experience, and interests.

In this role, you will define product vision, align community feedback with strategic goals, and work hand-in-hand with UX designers, core foundation engineers, and open-source contributors around the globe. You will have access to UX research and marketing resources to validate ideas and drive adoption.

• Lead the creation of product visions and strategies for your assigned product(s), working on larger strategic roadmap topics while signaling community needs via feature requests and discussions.
• Execute your product vision by bringing opportunities to life, up to and including delivery, together with engineers and designers.
• Join the day-to-day operation of the product development, participating actively in anything required to get the job done.
• Collaborate with other teams, stakeholders, and commercial partners.
• Involve our worldwide community from discovery to delivery, including monitoring community channels such as Discord, forums and Github to collect feedback and ensure projects stay on the right track.
• Coordinate with external stakeholders and commercial partners (e.g., aligning new hardware product launches with software features).
• 5+ years of experience delivering value to users as a product manager.
• 3+ years of experience shaping strategy and vision for a product.
• Meaningful experience with full autonomy, and iterative development/releasing.
• Proficiency in working with multi-disciplinary teams (UX designers and engineers), including hands-on project management to keep engineering teams on track.
• Proficiency in communication, being able to adapt the message to the audience.
• Comfort with public speaking during workshops, meetups, livestreams, etc.
• Professional Fluency in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• European Residency: You must be currently based and eligible to work within Europe.
• A passion for smart homes and automation.
• Experience as a Home Assistant, ESPHome or Music Assistant user.
• Curiosity and passion for learning.

The Open Home Foundation is a fully remote organization that uses Remote to employ people from all over the world. You will be a normal salaried employee in your country.

This is a full-time position for 40 hours per week. Because we are a fully remote company, there is no fixed schedule. For the purpose of team communication, we do try to ensure at least 3 hours of overlap in the workday. You will report to the Ecosystem Lead, who is based in the Netherlands.

Core to the establishment of the Open Home Foundation was the well-being of the people building the future of the smart home. We will provide all the benefits required by the country you reside in. However, we also want to make sure all our employees, regardless of country of origin, get at least a minimal set of benefits, including:

When first offering a position to a new member, the Open Home Foundation aims to provide a total compensation package that matches the 75th percentile for the new hire's role, seniority, and local market rates. For a Senior Product Manager in our primary operating countries, the approximate yearly compensation will be the following:

These figures may be adjusted based on experience, qualifications, and work hours.

The Open Home Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, with the objective of fighting for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. It does this by supporting the development of open-source projects, and open connectivity and communication standards.

A big part of this is Home Assistant, the biggest open-source project in number of contributors, but the Open Home Foundation also owns or collaborates with other projects important to promoting privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home, like:

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