[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Open Home Foundation

Role Description

The Open Home Foundation is looking for a Senior Product Manager preferably based in Europe to join our Ecosystem department. This department is responsible for the development of all the projects except Home Assistant under the OHF umbrella, including:

• ESPHome
• Voice
• Music Assistant
• The Open Home Protocols (Zigbee/Z-Wave/Matter)
• Collaborations with other projects like WLED or Zigbee2MQTT

As an open-source organization, being a product manager involves accounting for a large community of active users and contributors, balancing open-source collaboration with product leadership. The Ecosystem department is seeking Product Managers across three key projects:

• ESPHome
• Music Assistant & Sendspin
• Voice & Assist

This position will likely be a combined role spanning a pairing of these projects (such as Music Assistant + Sendspin or ESPHome + Voice & Assist), with flexibility for other combinations depending on the candidate's strengths, experience, and interests.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the creation of product visions and strategies for your assigned product(s), working on larger strategic roadmap topics while signaling community needs via feature requests and discussions.
• Execute your product vision by bringing opportunities to life, up to and including delivery, together with engineers and designers.
• Join the day-to-day operation of the product development, participating actively in anything required to get the job done.
• Collaborate with other teams, stakeholders, and commercial partners.
• Involve our worldwide community from discovery to delivery, including monitoring community channels such as Discord, forums, and Github to collect feedback and ensure projects stay on the right track.
• Coordinate with external stakeholders and commercial partners (e.g., aligning new hardware product launches with software features).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering value to users as a product manager.
• 3+ years of experience shaping strategy and vision for a product.
• Meaningful experience with full autonomy, and iterative development/releasing.
• Proficiency in working with multi-disciplinary teams (UX designers and engineers), including hands-on project management to keep engineering teams on track.
• Proficiency in communication, being able to adapt the message to the audience.
• Comfort with public speaking during workshops, meetups, livestreams, etc.
• Professional Fluency in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• European Residency: You must be currently based and eligible to work within Europe.

Requirements

• A passion for smart homes and automation.
• Experience as a Home Assistant, ESPHome or Music Assistant user.
• Curiosity and passion for learning.

Benefits

• Fully remote organization with no fixed schedule.
• Full-time position for 40 hours per week.
• At least 3 hours of overlap in the workday for team communication.
• Twenty-five days of paid time off.
• Fourteen days of paid sick leave if your country/laws treat them as unpaid.
• Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave to be used in the first year after birth.
• A budget for your work hardware once you start.
• A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee at your home workspace.
• One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects.
• Opportunity to spend work time maintaining Home Assistant-related side projects.
• Total compensation package that matches the 75th percentile for the new hire's role, seniority, and local market rates.

Company Description

The Open Home Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, with the objective of fighting for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. It does this by supporting the development of open-source projects, and open connectivity and communication standards.

• Home Assistant, the biggest open-source project in number of contributors.
• Open hardware tools (e.g., ESPHome, ESP Web Tools).
• Open standards (e.g., Matter JS, Z-Wave JS, ZigPy, BTHome, Improv Wi-Fi).
• Open voice (e.g., Rhasspy, Wyoming Protocol, Piper).
• Music Assistant.

The recruitment process

• Apply for the role.
• Our HR team will review your application with the hiring manager.
• Interview with HR.
• Interview with the manager.
• Case study with the team.
• Offer.
• Join our team!