Senior Product Manager

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), our collaborations with other projects like WLED or Zigbee2MQTT, and any others that join us in the future.

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, and 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 define product vision, align community feedback with strategic goals, and work hand-in-hand with UX designers, core foundation engineers, and open-source contributors around the globe. You will have access to UX research and marketing resources to validate ideas and drive adoption.

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• 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.

• A passion for smart homes and automation.

• Experience as a Home Assistant, ESPHome or Music Assistant user.

• Curiosity and passion for learning.

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.

A big part of this is Home Assistant, the biggest open-source project in number of contributors, but the Open Home Foundation also owns or collaborates with other projects important to promoting privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home, like:

• 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.

1. Apply for the role.

2. Our HR team will review your application with the hiring manager.

3. Interview with HR.

4. Interview with the manager.

5. Case study with the team.

6. Offer.

7. Join our team!