Associate Product Manager (Hardware)

Job description

**About Lumafield:** Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing. We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle, from initial ideas to shipping hardware, across industries and specializations, who became frustrated by the cost and complexity of modern manufacturing. So we decided to upgrade it. Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries. We started with industrial CT scanning, which for us was the most valuable but underutilized tool in the manufacturing toolbox, enabling us to rapidly inspect essential components non-destructively. We rebuilt the whole system, from X-ray capture, to computer vision analysis, to web-based collaboration, to the entire business model, making the most advanced manufacturing tech more accessible to every industry. Our company, like our platform, is designed for upgrades. We’re building for greater intelligence, autonomy, and speed. For deeper vision, operational excellence, and powerful insights. And then we'll upgrade it all again. Lumafield is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. and has an office in Cambridge, MA. **About the role:** Lumafield is looking for a passionate and driven Associate Product Manager (Hardware) to work with our hardware, software, and manufacturing teams. The Lumafield product team is full stack and high agency. You will identify and lead new product opportunities for on-scanner software and hardware capabilities within the Lab Solutions team. This includes user research, market research, developing prototypes, developing product requirements, and developing internal tooling to make your initiatives successful. This is an extremely collaborative role that will require meaningfully engaging with your engineering partners' areas of expertise (hardware design and manufacturing, electronics, embedded software) while also maintaining a business and market opportunity perspective including partnering with sales and marketing to lead new product capabilities from concept to commercial success. ### What you'll do: - Perform market research, customer research, and competitor research to identify new applications and market opportunities. - Conduct internal capabilities analysis with the internal R&D team to inform discovery work. - Assist in defining new hardware product configurations and major features. - Collaborate with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Product Teams. - Communicate initial product insights and business justification to stakeholders across the organization. - Seek out, analyze, and quantify user needs and product opportunities. - Understand our customers and key industries completely. - Provide a recommendation to leadership on go/no-go based on your insights and analysis. ### About you: - 1-3 years of product, engineering or applications engineering experience - Excellent written and verbal communicator with attention to detail where it matters. - Can work equally effectively with collaborators across engineering, sales, and marketing. - Can work fast and know how to prototype. - Can be a consistent, data-backed voice of the customer within Lumafield. - Highly independent, but can seek guidance when you need it. - Are decisive, even with incomplete information. - Are known for following through. ### Bonus: - Knowledge in engineering and manufacturing industries. - Experience developing and shipping software-driven hardware products. - Skills or experience across go-to-market (sales, marketing, trade shows, video production). - An interesting previous experience that gives you valuable insights in this new role.