Senior Technical Hardware Product Manager

Note to Applicants

This is a full‑time, onsite position working out of our HQ in Valencia, CA.

Sunco is the one‑stop shop for electrical contractors, builders, and property owners everywhere. Headquarters in sunny Valencia, CA, we’re powered by an amazing team of people who embody your values of expertise, craft, optimism, and grit.

Smart – strong reasoning and critical thinking

Passionate – your work is your sport of choice

Optimistic – self‑explanatory

Tenacious – extraordinary impact requires extraordinary grit and work ethic

Adaptable – the world evolves at breakneck speed. You evolve faster.

Kind – but that doesn’t mean you’re a pushover. Kindness lets you make hard decisions.

We’re hiring a senior technical product leader to own Sunco’s lighting and electrical supply portfolio end‑to‑end. This role will manage and scale a team of Product Managers and Project/Program Managers. This role is accountable for both what we build (product strategy, requirements, customer value) and how we build it (NPI execution, manufacturing alignment, supplier partnerships, iteration systems).

You’ll lead lighting products from concept through launch and into high‑velocity iteration. You’ll drive gains in reliability, thermal performance, manufacturability, cost‑downs, and customer outcomes. You’ll operate as a cross‑team leader, because a single team can go fast, but a team of teams can go far. You'll partner closely with data, software engineering, hardware engineering, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, sales/marketing, CS and more.

You’re already actively exploring how AI + data is reshaping manufacturing and hardware product development.

• Own lighting products end‑to‑end:
  Lead NPI from requirements → prototypes → validation/compliance → pilot → ramp → launch → post‑launch iteration.
• Lead and develop the PM/Program team:
  Manage Product Managers and Project/Program Managers; set operating cadence, priorities, and execution standards; coach decision‑making and communication quality.
• Manage full product lifecycle:
  Drive roadmap planning from concept to end‑of‑life; continuously assess market conditions and customer needs; lead feature additions, refreshes, and portfolio decisions.
• Drive iteration at scale:
  Improve reliability, thermal performance, manufacturability, packaging, margin, returns/defects, yield, lead time, and supplier/CM changes.
• Serve as primary operations point of contact:
  Understand factory operations and manufacturing constraints to prevent misalignment, reduce waste, and protect Sunco’s time and resources.
• Lead supplier and vendor relationships:
  Ensure factories and partners prioritize Sunco—supporting faster development, smoother production, better terms, and improved pricing.
• Run cross‑functional decision systems:
  Facilitate phase gates, executive updates, and high‑quality decisions across product, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, sales/marketing, and analytics.
• Operate with a data‑driven mindset:
  Gather and synthesize quantitative + qualitative inputs; build decision narratives that align stakeholders and enable fast, confident bets.
• Apply AI to accelerate work:
  Identify and implement practical AI‑enabled improvements in requirements, documentation, issue triage, test planning, and manufacturing/quality insights.

• Lighting industry background:
  Strong understanding of lighting customers, trends, channels, and technology progression.
• Technical hardware depth:
  High‑level understanding of lighting technology and innovation, with hands‑on experience in electrical, mechanical, and/or electromechanical systems.
• Engineering training strongly preferred: EE degree/training or equivalent technical hardware product leadership background. 7+ years shipping hardware products from concept to scale (lighting/electrical preferred) with meaningful hands‑on engineering involvement.
• 3+ years in technical hardware product management and/or hardware engineering leadership, including leading teams and driving cross‑functional outcomes.
• Technical fluency in lighting hardware: LED systems, drivers/power, chips, dimming behavior,…