# Senior Product Manager

**Company:** [Yubico](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/yubico)
**Location:** Santa Clara, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $200k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, Hardware Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Mes, Pki, Hsm, Firmware, Embedded Systems, Cryptographic Systems, Prds, Roadmapping, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-06

> Senior Product Manager owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Yubico's distributed Production & Fulfillment Systems. Define and deliver enterprise-grade software for manufacturing and distributing YubiKey devices at global scale, partnering closely with hardware, engineering, supply chain, and operations teams. Requires 10+ years PM experience in hardware/manufacturing environments.

## Job Description

## Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership
- Define and execute the long-term product vision and roadmap for next-generation production and fulfillment systems.
- Ensure tight alignment with overarching business goals and customer needs.

## Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner deeply with Engineering, Hardware, Supply Chain/Production, and Operations teams.
- Design high-impact solutions that drive automation efficiency and scalability across a global workforce.

## Requirements Definition
- Translate complex manufacturing workflows, logistics needs, and hardware requirements into clear, high-quality product requirement documents (PRDs) and user stories.

## Technical Partnership & Conflict Resolution
- Serve as the strategic unifier in cross-functional technical decisions.
- Synthesize competing priorities between product vision and architectural necessity.
- Document, data-back, and optimize trade-offs for long-term reliability.

## Security & Compliance Management
- Collaborate with security and engineering teams to integrate software systems with critical cryptographic infrastructure (such as PKI and HSMs).
- Maintain Yubico's gold standard of security.

## Process Optimization & Excellence
- Drive evaluation and continuous improvement of production processes.
- Adopt industry trends in industrial and manufacturing automation to maximize efficiency.

## Stakeholder Alignment
- Act as the primary voice of the fulfillment and production product domain.
- Convey complex product strategies and system impacts to technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.

## Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of progressively broadening product management experience, with a strong track record of shipping complex, enterprise-class hardware & manufacturing solutions.
- Proven experience in technical product management within hardware production environments, manufacturing environments, or large-scale internal tools.
- Proven ability to act as a constructive challenger to highly technical engineering partners.
- Strong business and technical acumen with the confidence to debate architectural tradeoffs.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills to align multi-disciplinary teams toward a unified vision.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working closely with firmware development, embedded systems, and the unique lifecycle challenges of managing physical hardware manufacturing through systems & software platforms.
- Understanding of cryptographic systems, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), or Key Management Systems utilizing Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
- Solid grasp of industrial and manufacturing automation designs, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), or firmware integration systems.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a hands-on approach to diving deep into technical workflows alongside engineering teams.

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