Senior Hardware Product Manager

Senior Hardware Product Manager

About Perry Weather

Perry Weather helps organizations turn hyperlocal weather data into faster, safer decisions when lives, assets, and operations are on the line. Our platform brings software, connected hardware, and real-time weather data into one system trusted by thousands of customers and millions of people each year — from Fortune 500 companies and professional sports leagues to major commercial builders, schools, cities, and golf courses.

The Role

Perry Weather is looking for a Senior Hardware Product Manager to own the roadmap, lifecycle, and development process for our connected weather, sensing, and alerting devices.

We already operate a fleet of 6,000+ devices in the field and are growing quickly. As our hardware footprint scales, we need a stronger product development discipline: clearer requirements, better validation, tighter handoffs, and a more mature NPI process that helps us get hardware right before it reaches customers.

This role will work cross-functionally across hardware engineering, software engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, support, and install teams. You’ll translate customer, market, and field needs into reliable, scalable hardware products that are easy to sell, install, service, replace, and support.

This is not a specs-and-status role. We’re looking for someone who can own the path from problem to production — building the hardware development discipline Perry Weather needs to scale while still moving quickly.

What You’ll Own

• Own the roadmap, lifecycle, and product strategy for Perry Weather’s connected hardware portfolio across weather, sensing, alerting, and field-deployable devices.

• Build and operate a practical NPI process from concept and prototype through validation, production readiness, and launch.

• Define clear product requirements and drive early prototyping before engineering starts building, including customer needs, field realities, success criteria, validation plans, and launch requirements.

• Lead cross-functional hardware development through influence across electrical engineering, firmware, IoT, mechanical engineering, software, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, support, and install teams.

• Drive stronger validation and field testing before launch, ensuring products are reliable, manufacturable, installable, serviceable, and ready for real-world conditions.

• Own the product side of fleet health and hardware lifecycle management, using field data, support feedback, install learnings, RMAs, and failure patterns to prioritize improvements, redesigns, replacements, or sunsetting decisions.

• Partner with Engineering to ensure hardware integrates cleanly with the Perry Weather software platform, including onboarding, diagnostics, connectivity, device behavior, fleet health telemetry, and customer workflows.

• Partner with Manufacturing and Supply Chain on production readiness, vendor considerations, BOM/SKU readiness, manufacturing handoffs, packaging, and serviceability.

• Support hardware GTM readiness across positioning, pricing and packaging inputs, sales enablement, install documentation, support workflows, replacement considerations, training, and launch readiness.

• Make tradeoffs across customer value, reliability, software integration, installability, speed, cost, manufacturability, and future extensibility — with a bias toward hardware that delivers measurable customer and business impact in the field.

What Success Looks Like

In your first year, you will:

• Launch 1–2 new hardware products from concept through validation, production readiness, and launch.

• Establish a clear NPI process with practical stage gates, ownership, requirements, validation criteria, and launch readiness standards.

• Improve reliability, quality, and field performance across existing devices.

• Make Perry Weather hardware easier to sell, install, support, service, and replace.

• Create a clearer hardware roadmap across new products, existing fleet improvements, field performance, and platform integration.

• Bring focus and clarity to the hardware engineering team while helping the company move faster with fewer costly hardware iterations.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience building, launching, or scaling connected hardware products, ideally in hardware-enabled SaaS, IoT, enterprise platforms, industrial systems, rugged devices, environmental sensing, or similar environments.

• Strong NPI experience, with a practical understanding of concept, prototype, EVT/DVT/PVT, validation, production readiness, and launch.

• Technical fluency across sensors, connectivity, firmware behavior, embedded systems, power, enclosures, reliability, calibration, and field performance — enough to work credibly with engineering and hold the right product line.

• A field-facing product mindset: comfortable with customer sites, installs, support issues, device failures, sales conversations, and real-world deployment constraints.

• Strong cross-functional leadership, with the ability to give engineering teams focus, clarity, priorities, requirements, and launch direction without directly managing them.

• Operational awareness across manufacturing, supply chain, vendors, BOMs, packaging, serviceability, installability, and lifecycle economics.

• A builder mindset: fast enough for a high-growth company, disciplined enough to reduce painful hardware rework, and pragmatic enough to add process without creating bureaucracy.

• Commercial judgment, with the ability to connect hardware decisions to customer value, sales readiness, attach potential, pricing and packaging inputs, supportability, and long-term business impact.

• You'll actually want to come in. Our Oak Lawn office isn't just a place to sit, it's where ideas move fast and culture stays strong. The whole team is here Monday through Friday, which means real collaboration, no chasing people down over Slack, and a genuinely fun place to spend your work days.

• Your wellbeing is covered. Competitive health insurance, 401(k) with employer matching, and a full suite of voluntary benefits, because you shouldn't have to think twice about the basics.

• Good people, good times. Monthly All-Hands, Office Olympics, happy hours, and more. We take the work seriously and the culture seriously too.

• You're getting in early, and that matters. We're growing fast, but the biggest opportunities are still ahead. The people joining now will help shape what Perry Weather becomes.