.We are looking forAre you passionate about driving the future of smart home technology by balancing user needs, business goals, and technical innovation? Do you have a knack for solving complex problems and turning them into clear, actionable solutions?Nabu Casa is looking for a Product Manager to join our Product & Design team full-time to help turn our vision into reality by defining, building, and scaling products that make smart homes accessible, private, interoperable, sustainable, and personalized.As one of the most active open-source projects in the world, Home Assistant powers over 1 million households globally, providing the smarts — convenience, comfort, security, personalization, and more — to our users' homes by automating, monitoring, and providing control of their devices. We are dedicated to achieving our Open Home vision — a smart home built on privacy, choice, and sustainability.The Product & Design team at Nabu Casa helps us envision the future of the Home Assistant project and turn it into reality. We manage our product roadmap and the alignment, discovery, ideation, design, and validation phases of each product, while we work with our engineering team for implementation and our marketing team for launch. Founded last year, our team has been working hard to steer the Home Assistant project towards a user experience that is both powerful for our advanced users and intuitive for other users in their houses.Unlike other corporate or startup companies, we have no investors, and we are active maintainers of our project and its open source community. We work openly by talking to our contributors and users often, and keeping them engaged with our directions and progress. You have easy access to our users for collecting feedback and validating ideas at any time through our enthusiastic user base and research pool. You will work with user researchers, designers, and engineers within Nabu Casa as well as contributors in our community to bring your visions to reality.What You Are Going To DoProduct Strategy and Vision: Be the product expert and define a clear product vision, for the areas involving our Home Assistant Cloud offering, companion apps, documentations, open protocols, the ESPHome project, and more. Keep an eye in the big picture by observing user and industry trends. Develop product strategies that balance user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. Balance short-term deliverables with long-term strategic goals.Product Management: Lead product opportunities throughout each stage of its product development lifecycle: alignment, conception, discovery, ideation, implementation, validation, launch, to post-launch evaluation. Translate user needs into clear product requirement documents and user stories.Project Management: Execute our product vision, set clear milestones, prioritize goals, and track progress to ensure that projects are delivered on time and meet quality standards
