Director of Product

• Shipped multiple consumer audio products at scale
• Deep experience working with OEM and JDM partners overseas. Comfortable managing many products in parallel, not just one deep program
• Track record of moving customer-perceived quality (Amazon ratings, return rates, NPS, review sentiment), not just internal QA metrics
• Have launched, scaled, or killed products based on early signal. Ruthless about applying kill criteria when the data says stop
• Engineering degree preferred (ME, CS, Acoustics, EE) but not required. Fluency matters more than the credential
• Comfortable making tradeoff calls with incomplete data and defending the call later
• You get sh*t done when things are messy, ambiguous, or broken
• Clear, opinionated written communication. Your briefs, PRDs, and vendor emails leave no ambiguity

• Run the Product Engine: Own the cadence of 10+ test launches per year. Set the gates, the kill criteria, and the capital envelope per bet. Most bets should die. The few that prove demand and unit economics get scaled.
• Scale Proven Winners: Identify which products have earned investment. Drive toward 4.3+ star ratings through targeted R&D, component upgrades, firmware quality, and fit improvements
• Product Briefs & Requirements: Set the bar on upfront thinking. Every product starts with a tight brief: customer pain, target buyer, must-win features, anti-features, cost target, quality bar, kill criteria.
• Component & Architecture Decisions: Lead component selection across drivers, chipsets, batteries, mics, and materials
• Player-Coach: Personally lead core categories as the senior PM. Own the spec, the schedule, and the tradeoffs on our most strategic category.
• Launch Readiness & Post-Launch Health: Own the gate criteria for EVT, DVT, PVT, and MP. Own the first-90-day product health dashboard on every launch.
• People Leadership: Manage, coach, and grow the PM team and design contractor. Set the standard for what good PM work looks like at Raycon.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Bring clarity across Engineering, ID, Ops, Marketing, and CX

• Reviewing weekly Amazon, return, and BSR data, digging deeply into potential root causes of customer feedback, and driving clear go-forward resolutions with team members
• Running a Raycon Labs product session: which two of these five concepts get validation, and which three get killed
• Reviewing component selection for an upcoming product refresh and working directly with the component vendors to drive quality
• Working with our vendor on a cost-down for a Fitness SKU heading into DVT
• Coaching a PM through a launch sequencing call with Marketing on a Q4 retail drop

• 10+ new product bets launched per year, with clean kill or scale decisions on each
• Every proven winner in the lineup at a 4.3+ Amazon rating within 12 months
• Average launch cost per bet inside the capital envelope (sub $25K all-in per test)
• PM team retained, developed, and producing visibly better specs and decisions quarter over quarter

• 50% team discount on Raycon products
• $1,500 annual L&D stipend + $200 for cultural events
• Monthly team lunch, snack budget, March Madness bracket

• Impact: Your products directly shape customer experience and brand trust
• Autonomy: Own high impact decisions and product outcomes
• Team: Grounded, ambitious, and kind coworkers who get sh*t done

Raycon is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Salary ranges are determined through alignment with market data. Base salary offered is determined by a number of factors including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and skills. This role is also eligible for bonus compensation and employee benefits.

NYC Base Salary Range: $110,000 - $170,000 USD

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