HP
HyperX Product Manager, Controllers (Specialist)
🇺🇸Fountain Valley, California, United States6 days ago
$83,000 – $128KMidFull Time
Description -
This role is responsible for shaping and refining global PSS strategy, roadmaps, platforms, and SKU plans for the controller category in collaboration with R&D and solutions teams, ensuring alignment with market needs, customer insights, and business goals. The role also includes post-analysis of product strategy, data-driven recommendations, support for sales efforts directed at users and partners, and cross-functional input into product introductions, forecasting, and lifecycle planning. This position helps strengthen the category through competitive insight, product definition, and execution.
Responsibilities
Shapes and refines the global PSS strategy, roadmaps, platforms, and SKU plans for the controller category in collaboration with R&D and solutions teams, ensuring alignment with market needs, customer insights, and business goals.
Conducts closed-loop post-analysis of global PSS strategies, evaluates effectiveness, and makes data-driven recommendations for improvement.
Represents the voice of the customer by analyzing user needs, preferences, market trends, and competitive insights to inform product definition and category direction.
Develops product requirements, briefs, and recommendations that translate customer and market insight into actionable roadmap decisions.
Provides subject matter expertise and strategic support to sales efforts directed toward end users and partners.
Determines and helps lead effective product, service, and solution introduction processes to support successful regional launches.
Provides recommendations to support forecasting activities and product availability planning, working closely with cross-functional teams.
Supports product lifecycle planning by providing category recommendations and cross-functional input on transitions, timing, and product change decisions in partnership with central category teams.
Partners closely with engineering, design, sourcing, operations, and commercial teams to guide products from concept through launch.
Helps identify portfolio gaps, platform opportunities, and areas for future category growth across key customer segments and use cases.
Solves difficult and complex problems with a fresh perspective, demonstrating sound judgment, creative thinking, and the ability to manage projects independently.
Education & Experience Recommended
Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related discipline, or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
Typically 4–7 years of work experience, preferably in product management, product marketing, product design, consumer electronics, gaming peripherals, or a related field, or an advanced degree with 3–5 years of work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong knowledge of gaming controller ecosystems across Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC, including licensing, latency, ergonomics, battery performance, Hall Effect trends, and software requirements.
Strong commercial and category instincts, including experience with portfolio ladders, margin considerations, retailer expectations, and competitive benchmarking.
Demonstrated ability to turn enthusiast and market feedback into product decisions that serve broader customer segments.
Technical fluency and comfort working closely with engineering, sourcing, and development teams.
Strong product management discipline with proven success operating cross-functionally in a matrixed organization.
Knowledge & Skills
Analytics
Business Strategy
Competitive Analysis
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Customer and Market Insight
Data Analysis
Go-to-Market Strategy
Hardware Product Development
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
New Product Development
Product Management
Product Requirements Definition
Product Strategy
Project Management
Roadmap Planning
Software-Hardware Integration
Technical Acumen
User Experience / Human Factors
Value Proposition Development
Vendor and Partner Collaboration
The pay range for this role is $83,000 to $127,800 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:
The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
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MarketingSchedule -
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No shift premium (United States of America)Travel -
25%Relocation -
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