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At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you'll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.
As Director, Product Portfolio Management you will be a member of the Sonos product team and contribute directly to Sonos' product and growth strategy. You will work across Sonos -- hardware, software, operations, finance, go-to-market -- to establish and lead the Sonos product roadmap and capacity assessment process, the outcome of which establishes the center-of-gravity for all of our product development investments. You will help toinform the Sonos portfolio and product strategy as well as our investment prioritization framework. Having a good understanding of tooling and operational processes will be a key area of focus.You lead with the Sonos behaviors, and inspire those around you to do the same.
This role is a hybrid position
Some roles require an office while others may be done remotely. This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Santa Barbara or Boston office locations.
What You'll Do:
Product Roadmap Process: Drive transformational change in the roadmap process and decision making framework across the Product teams (inclusive of Hardware, Software, Product Management, Customer Experience) as well as at the company-wide level. Responsible for working with the VP of Portfolio to collaborate with the Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market and Finance leadership to drive accountability, outcomes, alignment, visibility and impact with the Sonos product roadmap.
Product Management, Program and Customer Experience: Partner with the Product Management and Customer Experience organization and peer leaders to help develop the strongest, most empowered, most effective product management team possible. Help establish team priorities, meeting structure and cadence, and represent the organization to peer teams. Additionally, serve as a liaison to the other functional leadership teams such as Go-to-Market and Operations, being able to represent product work and decisions as well as bring back feedback and needs to the product leadership forum.
Rhythm of the Business: Partner with various cross functional teams to ensure alignment across teams on key corporate priorities, inclusive of:
OKRs: Partner with product teams on corporate and functional OKRs, metrics, and communication throughout the organization.
Communication: Drive communication strategies for various initiatives inclusive of roadmap, Board of Directors engagement, product share-outs, and organization-wide communications .
Finance: Partner with Finance on aligning product goals with company financial objectives and needs.
Corporate Long-range Planning: Serve as the Product support in partnership with the Strategic Finance team on the annual planning process. Ensure the right cadence relative to the roadmap process and initiatives are incorporated, and that the appropriate stakeholders are involved and brought along with the process.
What You'll Need:
Basic Qualifications
15+ years of related experience working in product management and leading a roadmap process, ideally in a hardware and software environment
Experience with portfolio management tooling, Google Suite, and JIRA
Experience with roadmap building and process management
Effective verbal and written communication
Must live within commuting distance of Santa Barbara or Boston office locations
Preferred Qualifications:
Strategic Product Thinking: As the leader of our company-wide product roadmap process, you'll draw on your experience in product strategy and product management to ensure our roadmap process and product decisions align with our company objectives, empower the product teams, enable effective decision-making, and compel teams to do their best work.
Facility with Finance, P&Ls, Budget: You will be supporting for the Product Management and Customer Experience budget cycle, ensuring alignment with company-wide finance and budget operations. Your partnership with Strategic Finance will elevate Product Management and Customer Experience P&L engagement beyond quarterly and annual budget cycles to include more strategic and long-term modeling.
Strong Communication and Collaboration Skills: As a member of the team that is the center-of-gravity for the Sonos roadmap process, you will need to work across team and discipline boundaries, lead and influence without direct authority, and ensure appropriate levels of contribution to and visibility into the roadmap and product exploration processes. You create clarity from complexity and will help unlock innovation potential across the company.
Operational Acumen and Strength: Your effectiveness will be amplified by your organizational abilities and keen attention to detail. You are data-informed and help create a culture of clarity in expectations, accountability to results, and continuous improvement and growth. You create capacity beyond you and your team by developing processes that are empowering and that increase scale. You balance the more entrepreneurial activities with structure that creates predictability, repeatability and consistency where and when it is most needed.
Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don't have 100% of the skills listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if interested.
Visa Sponsorship: Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. We ask that applicants be authorized to work for any US employer, both now and in the future.
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At Sonos we consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, which may lead individual compensation to vary depending on job related qualifications, skills, and experience. All full time employees are eligible for merit increases, discretionary bonuses, and equity. Our job postings may span more than one career level and the base pay range may be modified in the future based on changing market conditions. The starting base pay for this role for all US candidates is between:
$203,000 and $225,100Please note that compensation details listed in US job postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
We also offer a comprehensive benefits program with choice and flexibility in mind to help support the health, wealth, and overall well-being of our employees. Regular full time employees in the US are eligible for benefits on day one, including:
Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
A 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vesting
An Open Time Off policy (OTO) so you have maximum opportunity to disconnect and recharge, with no tenure-based vacation accruals required
80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annually
Up to 12 paid holidays per calendar year
12 weeks of paid Bonding Leave following the birth or adoption of a new child, plus up to an additional 12 weeks of Medical Leave for birthing parents under our Short Term Disability policy
Company-paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
Voluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet Insurance
Mental health benefits to support your holistic well-being
A generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!
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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.
Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.
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Follow the links to review the EEO is the Law poster and its supplement. Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to accommodations@sonos.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. Follow the links to review the EEO is the Law poster(https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf) and its supplement (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf). The pay transparency policy is available here- https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_unformattedESQA508c.pdf. Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to accommodations@sonos.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.