Director of Product Portfolio Management, Sonos
$203-225.1k
+ Bonus and Equity
Wireless audio experience company
Job no longer available
Wireless audio experience company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$203-225.1k
+ Bonus and Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide music lovers with the tools to enjoy their favourite sounds anywhere, any time.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of related experience working in product management and leading a roadmap process, ideally in a hardware and software environment
- Experience with portfolio management tooling, Google Suite, and JIRA
- Experience with roadmap building and process management
- Effective verbal and written communication
- Must live within commuting distance of Santa Barbara, Seattle, or Boston office locations
- Strategic Product Thinking: As the leader of our company-wide product roadmap process, you’ll draw on your experience in product strategy and product management to ensure our roadmap process
- Product decisions align with our company objectives, empower the product teams, enable effective decision-making, and compel teams to do their best work
- Facility with Finance, P&Ls, Budget: You will be supporting for the Product Management and Customer Experience budget cycle, ensuring alignment with company-wide finance and budget operations
- Your partnership with Strategic Finance will elevate Product Management and Customer Experience P&L engagement beyond quarterly and annual budget cycles to include more strategic and long-term modeling
- Strong Communication and Collaboration Skills: As a member of the team that is the center-of-gravity for the Sonos roadmap process, you will need to work across team and discipline boundaries, lead and influence without direct authority
- Ensure appropriate levels of contribution to and visibility into the roadmap and product exploration processes. You create clarity from complexity and will help unlock innovation potential across the company
- Operational Acumen and Strength: Your effectiveness will be amplified by your organizational abilities and keen attention to detail
- You are data-informed and help create a culture of clarity in expectations, accountability to results, and continuous improvement and growth
- You create capacity beyond you and your team by developing processes that are empowering and that increase scale
- You balance the more entrepreneurial activities with structure that creates predictability, repeatability and consistency where and when it is most needed
What the job involves
- As Director, Product Portfolio Management you will be a member of the Sonos product team and contribute directly to Sonos’ product and growth strategy
- You will work across Sonos -- hardware, software, operations, finance, go-to-market -- to establish and lead the Sonos product roadmap and capacity assessment process, the outcome of which establishes the center-of-gravity for all of our product development investments
- You will help to inform the Sonos portfolio and product strategy as well as our investment prioritization framework
- Having a good understanding of tooling and operational processes will be a key area of focus
- You lead with the Sonos behaviors, and inspire those around you to do the same
- Product Roadmap Process: Drive transformational change in the roadmap process and decision making framework across the Product teams (inclusive of Hardware, Software, Product Management, Customer Experience) as well as at the company-wide level
- Responsible for working with the VP of Portfolio to collaborate with the Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market and Finance leadership to drive accountability, outcomes, alignment, visibility and impact with the Sonos product roadmap
- Product Management, Program and Customer Experience: Partner with the Product Management and Customer Experience organization and peer leaders to help develop the strongest, most empowered, most effective product management team possible
- Help establish team priorities, meeting structure and cadence, and represent the organization to peer teams
- Additionally, serve as a liaison to the other functional leadership teams such as Go-to-Market and Operations, being able to represent product work and decisions as well as bring back feedback and needs to the product leadership forum
- Rhythm of the Business: Partner with various cross functional teams to ensure alignment across teams on key corporate priorities, inclusive of:
- OKRs: Partner with product teams on corporate and functional OKRs, metrics, and communication throughout the organization
- Communication: Drive communication strategies for various initiatives inclusive of roadmap, Board of Directors engagement, product share-outs, and organization-wide communications
- Finance: Partner with Finance on aligning product goals with company financial objectives and needs
- Corporate Long-range Planning: Serve as the Product support in partnership with the Strategic Finance team on the annual planning process. Ensure the right cadence relative to the roadmap process and initiatives are incorporated, and that the appropriate stakeholders are involved and brought along with the process
Our take
Sonos is a highly reputed global manufacturer of top tier speakers. Since being founded in 2002 it has become a market leading audio product brand, partnering with over 100 music service companies and putting products in nearly 11 million households worldwide.
Sonos' strong brand reputation has seen it carve out space in a competitive market alongside giants like Amazon and Alphabet, who are similarly targeting the connected audio home market. Sonos have perhaps been smart in keeping their product selection relatively modest, focusing instead on strategic partnerships that embed their products across different markets. They are, for example, partnered with Audi to provide their first in-car sound system.
As companies began adopting remote and hybrid work, Sonos benefitted from a period of increased consumer focus on refitting the leisure and work facilities of their homes. This includes speakers and smart speakers, which account for the vast majority of Sonos revenue. This trend is only set to continue, with the global home audio market expected to exceed $70 billion by 2030. As a market leader, Sonos is in good stead to continue its sustained growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2013
$25m
LATE VC
Jun 2012
$135m
SERIES F
Total funding: $227m
Company HQ
Lower State, Santa Barbara, CA
Leadership
Tom Conrad
(CEO)Tom has been part of Sonos since 2017, becoming CEO in 2025. Previously, he was the CEO of Zero Longevity Science and the CPO of Quibi.
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