Product Program Manager

1. PMO & Project Management (70%)
2. Associate Product Manager (30%)

• Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives from charter development through implementation and closeout.
• Define scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, resource needs, decision rights, and communication plans.
• Translate strategic priorities into executable workplans with clear owners, dependencies, and success measures.
• Coordinate activities across Product, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, Marketing,
• Finance, and Customer Support.
• Drive timely decisions, remove obstacles, and escalate unresolved issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Manage multiple concurrent programs while maintaining alignment with business priorities and available resources.

• Establish and maintain practical project governance standards, templates, stage reviews, and operating cadences.
• Manage project intake and support portfolio prioritization based on strategic value, urgency, capacity, risk, and financial impact.
• Maintain a centralized view of active initiatives, key milestones, project health, resource constraints, and inter dependencies.
• Create and maintain project charters, integrated schedules, RAID logs, decision logs, action trackers, and change controls.
• Facilitate weekly project reviews, monthly portfolio reviews, and executive steering committee meetings.
• Ensure decisions, commitments, and action items are documented, assigned, and driven to closure.

• Lead NPI programs from concept through commercialization.
• Coordinate Engineering, Product, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations, Sales, and Marketing.
• Manage phase-gates, prototypes, testing, sourcing, compliance, cost, and launch readiness.
• Track scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risks to ensure successful launches.
• Lead post-launch reviews and continuous improvement.

• Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Define mitigation plans, owners, and timelines.
• Assess and communicate impacts of scope, cost, schedule, and resource changes.
• Escalate critical decisions with clear, fact-based recommendations.
• Maintain effective change control while enabling business agility.

• Deliver concise executive updates on progress, risks, decisions, and next steps.
• Build portfolio dashboards, scorecards, and KPIs.
• Tailor communication to executive, technical, operational, and commercial teams.
• Present project status, tradeoffs, and recommendations to leadership.
• Drive transparency through fact-based project reporting.

• Identify execution bottlenecks, resource conflicts, and process gaps.
• Implement simple, scalable PMO practices to improve predictability.
• Standardize project tools, templates, reporting, and meeting practices.
• Support adoption of project and portfolio management tools.
• Coach teams on planning, risks, reporting, and accountability.
• Apply project data and lessons learned to improve future execution.

• Support product planning, opportunity evaluation, and roadmap prioritization.
• Align roadmap commitments with executable cross-functional plans.
• Track initiatives, dependencies, risks, and key changes.

• Research market, competitors, technology, and industry trends.
• Provide actionable insights on pricing, features, opportunities, and risks.
• Monitor emerging customer needs, technologies, standards, and market developments that may create opportunities or risks.

• Gather customer and channel feedback to identify needs and opportunities.
• Support PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirement alignment.
• Assist with Product Requirements Documents, user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability between customer needs and program deliverables.
• Collaborate with Engineering and commercial stakeholders to clarify requirements and resolve gaps or conflicts.

• Business Cases, Launch & Product Performance Coordinate launch-readiness plans across Product, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Quality, Service, and Customer Support.
• Support development of internal product training, sales-enablement inputs, launch communications, and customer-facing readiness materials.
• Support business cases, launch readiness, training, and sales enablement.
• Track adoption, customer feedback, quality, and post-launch performance.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, Product Management, Information
• Systems, Marketing, or a related field.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in project management, program management, PMO, product
• operations, engineering program management, business operations, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from planning through implementation
• using a rigorous stage-gate product development process.
• Experience managing multiple projects with competing priorities, shared resources, and significant
• interdependencies.
• Strong working knowledge of project planning, risk management, change control, governance, and executive
• reporting.
• Ability to influence and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and project management platforms such
• as Monday.com, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Planner, Asana, Jira.

• PMP certification or equivalent formal project management training.
• Experience in HVAC, manufacturing, industrial equipment, building products, construction, or another technical
• product environment.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Lean, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience with ERP, CRM, PLM, business intelligence, and portfolio management systems.
• Experience conducting market research, competitive analysis, voice-of-customer work, or business case
• development.
• Familiarity with product certification, regulatory compliance, sourcing, manufacturing readiness, and commercialization processes.

Ready for Your Next Big Adventure?

If you are a strategic thinker and innovation in the HVAC industry, we want to hear from you! Please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience.