Product Manager

Product Manager, Lighting Controls Location: Espoo, Finland or Dartford, Kent (UK), with occasional international travel

About the company

Our client is a long-established, family-owned international lighting technology business with more than 100 years of history. They design intelligent, energy-efficient lighting control solutions for smart, sustainable buildings, combining wired, wireless and hybrid controls, environmental sensing and a cloud-based digital services platform. With offices across Europe, a partner network in 80+ countries and over 300,000 projects delivered, they are growing internationally and investing in their product portfolio.

The role

You will own the Lighting Controls product domain end to end, from discovery and strategy through roadmap, lifecycle and commercial performance. The portfolio covers controllers, sensors, panels, dimmers, relays and contactors, plus wired, wireless and hybrid control infrastructure.

Working alongside the Engineering Manager, you will define which problems to solve and why, while Engineering leads how products are built. You will work closely with Offering, Sales, Presales, Marketing and future-technology teams to keep the portfolio competitive, coherent and easy to adopt.

What you will do

• Run direct customer discovery with end users, specifiers, partners and customer-facing teams, and turn insight into clear outcomes, requirements, use cases and success measures
• Own product strategy, positioning and the roadmap, prioritising on customer value, market evidence, strategic fit, commercial impact and delivery risk
• Partner with Engineering through product creation, making clear trade-offs on scope, timing, quality and cost
• Manage the full lifecycle from launch to end of life, tracking revenue, margin, adoption, quality and support needs
• Contribute to pricing, packaging and business cases, and equip Marketing, Sales and Presales for launches
• Engage strategic customers and partners, and monitor technology, standards, regulation and competitors

What you will bring

• Significant B2B product management experience with measurable commercial impact, including ownership of strategy, roadmaps, prioritisation and lifecycle decisions
• Experience with technical products: connected hardware, embedded software or software-enabled systems
• Strong customer discovery skills and commercial acumen, and the confidence to make decisions on incomplete evidence
• A track record of working with engineering leaders in iterative development and influencing without formal authority
• Understanding of quality, compliance, cybersecurity, interoperability and lifecycle risk in international B2B markets
• Lighting controls, building automation, DALI or wireless controls experience is a strong advantage
• An engineering, technology or business degree (or equivalent experience) and fluent English