At a Glance
Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Product Manager to join the Finelite Team in Union City, CA.
As Product Manager, you will guide the product development life cycle from cradle to grave by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, product development timetables, and facilitate plans and efforts for product introduction. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company to improving or developing processes for onboarding new technologies. You will build products from existing ideas and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and industry experts. You must possess a unique blend of business, people and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You will command the skill of time and project management to balance multiple projects and prioritize time and resources to meet project deadlines. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the architectural lighting market, including products, trends, customer needs and technologies.
You must be able to effectively communicate with all areas of the company and customers.. You will be tasked with defining, developing and managing products and must engage teams in every aspect of the development process. You will be the expert and champion both internally and externally for your products and will be required to communicate the product line’s values. You will be required to use your interpersonal skills to influence team members across multiple functions.
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About Legrand
Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en
About Legrand North and Central America
Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us
About Legrand’s Lighting Sector
Legrand’s Lighting Sector consists of five lighting brands; Pinnacle, Finelite, Focal Point, and OCL which focus on architectural, decorative, and downlighting and Kenall which focuses on lighting for demanding environments. We employ a talented group of employees that love lighting to design and manufacture high performance, energy efficient LED lighting solutions for applications in commercial, educational, healthcare, as well as challenging environments such as tunnels and correctional facilities. With an eye toward sustainable design, our focus is on specification-oriented products and solutions that meet the functional needs of spaces while working in harmony with the designer’s vision for those spaces. We work with architects, engineers, and contractors to supply lighting built specifically for their client’s projects.
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