About the role
The Open Home Foundation is looking for a Senior Product Manager based in Europe to join our Product and UX team. The team is responsible for the success of the Open Home Foundation's products as well as their strategic evolution. We are open source, and part of our responsibilities is to align these efforts with our worldwide community.
Responsibilities
- Support the whole foundation by creating product visions and strategies for the different products in its portfolio.
- Execute your product vision by bringing opportunities to life, up to and including delivery, together with engineers, designers, and researchers.
- 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 such as Nabu Casa or Apollo Automation.
- Involve our worldwide community in shaping your opportunities, from discovery to delivery.
About us
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: * Open hardware tools (e.g., ESPHome, ESP Web Tools). * Open standards (e.g., Python Matter Server, Z-Wave JS, ZigPy, BTHome, Improv Wi-Fi). * Open voice (e.g., Rhasspy, Wyoming Protocol, Piper). * Music Assistant.
The Open Home Foundation is a fully remote organization. This is a full-time position for 40 hours per week with no fixed schedule, though we try to ensure at least 3 hours of overlap in the workday. Benefits include: Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off; Fourteen days of paid sick leave; Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave; A budget for your work hardware; A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee; One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects; If you are currently working on Home Assistant-related side projects, you can spend work time maintaining them. The foundation aims to provide a total compensation package that matches the 75th percentile for the role, seniority, and local market rates.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 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 in multi-disciplinary teams (UX designers, researchers, and engineers).
- 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.
Nice to have
- A passion for smart homes and automation.
- Experience as a Home Assistant user.
- Curiosity and passion for learning.
