Senior Product Manager, Software

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, Software (B2C) to lead the discovery and delivery of high-impact smart home experiences that delight millions of consumers and drive measurable business outcomes. Your goal will be to grow Yale, August, and Master Lock’s B2C connected products individually and evolve them into a unified smart security ecosystem.

You’ll own the outcomes of a major segment of our consumer-facing security software platform, directing cross-functional efforts across mobile, cloud, and device integrations. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of mobile apps, IoT devices, and smart home ecosystems (Google Home, Apple Home, Alexa, SmartThings), building trusted experiences where software and hardware come together to deliver security, safety, and peace of mind, Transforming Spaces into Havens.

The ideal candidate is customer-obsessed, outcome-oriented, and data-driven, with strong product vision and the ability to bring clarity to complexity. You thrive in discovery and delivery, inspire your team, and ensure focus on solving the right problems in ways valuable for the customer and work for the business.

This role reports directly to the Group Product Manager for B2C Security Software.

Position Location

Hybrid role based in Deerfield, IL or San Francisco, CA (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays).

Key Responsibilities

Product Vision & Strategy

• Define and communicate the vision and strategy for your product area, connecting customer problems with measurable business outcomes.
• Find and establish clear key results to assigned objectives (OKRs), aligning the team and measuring success.
• Share insights and learnings from product discovery work to inform future investment and roadmap direction.

Discovery & Delivery

• Partner with design and engineering in a product triad to discover, test, and deliver solutions that are valuable to our customers, easily usable, technically feasible, and viable for the business.
• Use prototypes, customer feedback, competitive analysis, and telemetry data to validate assumptions before shipping solutions.
• Prioritize the most impactful problems to solve and opportunities to pursue, ensuring clarity of requirements and alignment across the team.

Execution & Measurement

• Own a segment of the Yale, August, and Master Lock software platform, including their B2C ecosystem integrations (Google Home, Apple Home, Alexa, SmartThings, and others).
• Leverage telemetry, app reviews, NPS, and consumer research to guide prioritization and improve product performance.
• Track outcomes post-launch as part of your continuous discovery effort, turning learnings into insights that inform future investment and roadmap direction.

Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with hardware product managers, program managers, and product marketing managers to align initiatives across hardware, software, and go-to-market.
• Collaborate with customer success and marketing to ensure launch preparedness and end-to-end user experience quality.
• Communicate progress, insights, and trade-offs to senior executives to influence broader initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software product management or related fields (engineering, product design, QA, or tech program management).
• 1+ years in B2C IoT products preferred; strong interest in smart home technology required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience (advanced degree in business or engineering a plus).
• Skilled in dual-track agile and modern product discovery practices (continuous discovery, story mapping, assumption testing, opportunity-solution trees, and A/B testing).
• Strong familiarity with software and data concepts (mobile apps, SQL, APIs, cloud services).
• Experience working with mobile apps (iOS + Android), Wi-Fi + Bluetooth devices, cloud services
• IoT firmware product experience is a plus.
• Hands-on skill in data analysis, Regex, and SQL is a plus.
• Strong communicator, able to simplify complexity and inspire technical and non-technical audiences behind product objectives.
• Passionate about solving customer problems and achieving outcomes, not just shipping features.

Additional Information

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $90,000 USD - $143,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

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