Product Owner/ Product Marketing Manager

Product Owner/Product Marketing Manager This position is eligible for fully remote work; however, we are also accepting candidates interested in working in and/or relocating to Grand Rapids, MI. DornerWorks has developed expertise in FPGA-based networking technologies and seeks a Product Owner/Product Marketing Manager to join the Innovation team on an exciting and ambitious journey to scale our networking offerings in target markets. This is a great time to join DornerWorks as our Networking Product portfolio has garnered interest from some of the most well-respected institutions around the world. In this exciting new role, you will lead the networking product commercialization, leveraging customer interactions, competitive analysis, and market trends. What you will be doing:

• Partner with customers to understand their pains and gains relative to our product offerings.
• Develop value propositions and roadmaps for each of our offerings based on customer, competitor, partner, and market intelligence.
• Leverage customer and market insights to guide engineering feature development.
• Play a key role in winning new customers by working with our Business Development team to position our offerings for success.
• Work with Marketing to ensure the value propositions of our product offerings are well represented in our marketing channels.
• Research and document competitive offerings and our differentiation within the markets we serve.
• Identify gaps in existing market and propose new product offerings alongside business case when relevant.
• Assess new markets and propose market penetration strategies where favorable opportunities exist.
• Seek partnerships to broaden market channels.
• Work with our Business Development team to align on pricing relative to market demand.
• Create innovative revenue strategies to meet customer needs and profitability goals.
• Attend tradeshows and/or industry events to promote product offering.

What we like to see:

• Effective communicator.
• Bias towards action.
• Growth oriented and decisive when setting and pursuing strategy.
• Leadership style that is inspirational/motivational, supporting work-life balance, caring for others.

What we need from you:

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing or Engineering degree with customer-facing experience.
• 3+ years in the areas of customer discovery, product marketing, and go to market.
• Experience in Aerospace/Defense industry.
• Experience collaborating and influencing across various teams.
• Experience in Lean product development or similar preferred.
• Experience in FPGA or Networking.
• Business acumen.
• Unrestricted right to work in the US without requiring sponsorship.

What DornerWorks has for you:

• Diverse, engaging, collaborative and challenging work.
• Continuous learning. Work multiple diverse projects each year – different technologies, products, and industries.
• Work from home or in-person, while doing what you love.
• Competitive compensation and benefits with quarterly bonus opportunity.
• Flex Fridays – you want an extra 26 days off? Compressed work week, with the opportunity to take every other Friday off and flexible hours.
• Healthy work/life balance. At DornerWorks’ that is not just an empty slogan; it is one of our core values.
• Organized social events, both onsite and virtual. We promise you’ll have fun!
• Supportive team – not a cut throat environment but supportive and encouraging.

Learn more about DornerWorks and our culture from our website at www.DornerWorks.com . DornerWorks is an equal opportunity employer and participates in the E-Verify program. EEO/M/F/Disabled/Veteran. This facility operates under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and therefore, any person hired must demonstrate with verifiable documentation that they are either: (i) a U.S. Citizen; (ii) an active Green Card Holder; or (iii) a “Protected Person” as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324 (b)(a)(3). Keywords: FPGA, Field Application Engineer, Corporate Application Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Technical Sales, Technical Marketing, commercialization, product commercialization, field programmable gate array, defense, application engineer