Aperia is unlocking a new era of efficiency and sustainability for commercial vehicle fleets, by developing innovative hardware and data analytics solutions. Inventors of the award- winning and disruptive Halotm Automatic Tire Inflator, and the cloud delivered Halo Connect tire analytics platform. Aperia saves fleets thousands of hours of down-time every week, reduces the carbon footprint and environmental impact of the freight industry. Join us as we expand our product offering and take the next steps on our journey toward bringing the "backbone of our economy" into the automation age.
Your Role
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We are seeking a Senior Software Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of Aperia’s tire inflation and analytics software product, Halo Connect. This role owns the product vision from strategy through execution, and partners closely with engineering, design, data, sales, customer success, and product operations to deliver measurable customer and business value at scale.
The ideal candidate brings strong product leadership, deep user empathy, data-driven decision-making, and experience shipping and evolving complex SaaS or IoT-enabled products. This position is intended for a seasoned product leader who can operate with significant autonomy and grow into broader product leadership over time.
Your Responsibilities
Product Vision & Strategy
- Own and evolve the product vision and strategy for Halo Connect, grounded in customer needs, business objectives, and technical constraints.
- Translate company strategy and customer insights into a clear, outcome-driven product roadmap with well-defined priorities and success metrics.
- Partner with executive leadership to ensure product direction aligns with long-term business goals.
- Lead prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, schedule, performance, and cost to maximize customer impact and business outcomes under real-world constraints.
Product Discovery & Delivery
- Define product and business requirements rooted in validated customer problems using customer research, usage analytics, market analysis, and structured discovery.
- Lead the end-to-end execution of new products and features, ensuring successful launches, adoption, and post-launch learning.
- Proactively identify and resolve risks or dependencies that could impact delivery, quality, or customer value.
Customer & User Centricity
- Develop and maintain deep empathy for users through structured interviews, usability testing, surveys, on-site customer visits, virtual sessions, and industry events.
- Champion user-centric thinking across the organization and ensure customer insights consistently inform product decisions.
- Drive improvements in customer engagement, usability, and realized value from the software.
Process & Organizational Impact
- Improve and mature product management practices, including discovery, roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, and post-launch review.
- Act as a leader and mentor within the product organization, raising the bar for product thinking, clarity, and collaboration.
- Contribute to building scalable product processes that support the company’s continued growth.
Travel
- This role requires traveling up to 10-15% of the time, nationally and internationally.
Skills/Qualifications
- BS degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- MS degree, MBA, or equivalent experience preferred.
- 8+ years of experience working as a Product Manager with significant ownership of SaaS and/or IoT-enabled software products.
- Proven experience delivering products end-to-end, from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to inform decisions and build business cases.
- Deep understanding of software development processes and strong experience partnering with engineering teams.
- Experience in managing customer-facing applications for both web and mobile.
- Demonstrated success in customer development and validating solutions through direct customer feedback.
- A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a proven track record of shipping software quickly, then iterating on the experience.
- Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives while maintaining clarity and focus.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- High attention to detail combined with strong strategic and system-level thinking.
Pay Range: $135,000 - $150,000
*Base salary only. Salary dependent on multiple factors including, but not limited to, experience and location.
**Addition compensation may include equity, bonuses, stipends, medical, dental, vision, 401-k, and long-term disability insurance.
