Senior Product Manager (Hardware)
Qrypt’s mission is to protect the world’s data and restore privacy. Qrypt hardens cybersecurity and future-proofs encryption against quantum attacks by eliminating key transmission. Qrypt’s unique technology independently generates symmetric keys at multiple endpoints for critical workflows today. We are a passionate team of engineers, physicists, and cryptographers committed to transforming the way the world safeguards data and communications!
Qrypt is looking for a Senior Product Manager (Hardware) to lead product delivery for our hardware products, which are focused on quantum computer threats and other future attack vectors. You will define product vision, working closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and finance to ensure performance, revenue, and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Senior Product Manager will also ensure that products support the company’s overall strategy and goals, including by ensuring that the hardware roadmap supports other products in the Qrypt portfolio.
In this role, you will report directly to the Chief of Staff of Engineering and be responsible for all phases of the product lifecycle. You must ensure that Qrypt remains the market leader that differentiates based on the highest quality hardware products, while ensuring service and cost levels that match the needs of the market. Qrypt continues to innovate at a very rapid pace, and as Senior Product Manager, you will bring fresh ideas to the table, and own product planning and execute to grow usage of our products.
This role is based in New York, NY or Germantown, MD.
What You'll Do
- Define a product roadmap and prioritize the product backlog based on technical needs, market research, and user feedback
- Perform competitive research and ensure product differentiation in the market
- Define, measure, and communicate product and feature measures of success
- Develop the core positioning and messaging for the products
- Actively manage the lifecycle of the product to ensure the roadmap and releases are being delivered on time, on budget and to an agreed quality standard
- Collaborate with external third parties to assess integration, partnership, and licensing opportunities
- Engage with users to understand their problems and drive product adoption
What You'll Need
- 7+ years of relevant work experience in product management with high-technology products
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or electrical engineering, mathematics, technology, or a relevant field of study
- Strong understanding of hardware product development processes, including printed circuit board level products
- Proven understanding of NPI processes, including working with operations on manufacturing, quality, RMA, and EOL
- Demonstrated success developing and delivering complex, high technology products involving software, hardware and integrated systems.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent teamwork skills, with proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Experience with market and user research
- Experience presenting to senior leadership to drive consensus and articulating program recommendations and tradeoffs
- Experience with hardware-based products that require technology qualifications and/or certifications
- PLUS: Experience with enterprise security, identity, encryption, or key management technologies
- PLUS: Certifications such as Certified Product Manager or Agile Certified Project Manager
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive Pay & Equity
- Medical, dental and vision plan participation
- Strong 401K matching program
- In-office free lunch & snacks
- Gym Reimbursement
- But above all, be part of an amazing team! Together, we’ll make this world a safer place!
The annual base pay range for this role is $160,000 to $210,000. The actual base salary pay offered may vary based on multiple factors such as qualifications, experience, transferable skills, level of education, and other factors permitted by law. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work in this location and refers to the amount Qrypt is willing to pay at the time of this posting. The range listed is just one component of Qrypt's total compensation package.
What We Do
Eternal Encryption.
In an age of escalating cyberespionage, robust encryption protocols have never been more important. Current encryption methods rely on vulnerable and archaic technologies, which will be rendered obsolete by the rise of quantum computers and associated scientific advances.
Qrypt’s encryption solution can secure an enterprise today and eliminate future risk; it is the only algorithm mathematically proven to be unbreakable, even in theory. Qrypt protects data from the threat of quantum computers and those machines and mathematics yet to be invented.
The Qrypt team is composed of proven cryptography and security experts from academia, industry, and government. Our mission is to help you take back your privacy forever. Together, we can transform the way the world safeguards data and communications.
