Senior Product Manager (Fire Alarm Systems)

About the role

A product line owner responsible for planning and managing the fire alarm portfolio across six overseas regions, driving product strategy, demand management, R&D collaboration, certification, mass-production readiness, go-to-market, and continuous improvement, while building product management processes within the Overseas Product & Data Department.

Key responsibilities

• Own the fire alarm product line across six overseas regions (Southeast Asia, Middle East, South Asia, South America, Africa, and Europe/Central Asia), developing three-year plans and annual roadmaps based on market research, standards, application scenarios, and competitor intelligence. Define the product portfolio and positioning by system type, controller capacity, detector type, and regional versions, while managing the full lifecycle including NPI, iteration, phase-out, and backward compatibility.

• Establish a unified demand pool, convert market needs into MRD/PRD, and lead project initiation with feasibility, cost, certification, and ROI assessment for approval

• Collaborate closely with domestic R&D on requirement baselines, milestone tracking, stage reviews, and real-scenario validation, including standard fire tests and environmental testing

• Drive certification planning and execution (EN 54/CPR, UL/FM, LPCB/VdS, ISO 7240, and local approvals), ensuring certificates are obtained before launch and maintained thereafter

• Coordinate with domestic factories on mass-production readiness, cost and margin tracking, supply risk, and certification-related factory audits

• Support go-to-market activities, including launch planning, pricing and channel recommendations, sales enablement, training, and key bid support

• Close the loop on field issues through root-cause analysis and corrective actions, escalate life-safety risks, and maintain a product issue library to feed continuous improvement

• Contribute to building product management processes, templates, and review mechanisms as a product line lead within the Overseas Product & Data Department

About you

• Bachelor's degree or above in electronics, automation, communications, electrical engineering, fire protection engineering, safety engineering, or a related science/engineering field

• 5+ years of hardware product management experience, including 3+ years in fire alarm or fire electronic systems, with independent ownership of a product line or full-cycle leadership of at least 2 products from initiation and certification to mass production and launch

• 3+ years of overseas market product or business experience, familiar with distributor, fire engineering contractor, system integrator, and consultant-driven project-based sales models

• Fluent Chinese for domestic R&D and factory communication, and English as a working language for documentation, training, certification, and customer communication

• Based in Singapore, accepting approximately 30% travel (Shenzhen, Qinhuangdao, and overseas regional markets) and cross-time-zone communication; must hold or be eligible to apply for a Singapore work pass

• Solid knowledge of hardware and embedded software development processes (IPD or stage-gate), with the ability to independently write MRD/PRD and organize reviews

• Strong understanding of fire alarm system architecture—controllers, loop bus and addressing, detectors, manual call points, sounders/beacons, I/O modules, and linkage control—and the differences between conventional, addressable, and wireless systems

• Familiarity with major overseas standards and certifications (EN 54 series and EU CPR, UL/FM, LPCB/VdS, ISO 7240), system design codes such as NFPA 72 and BS 5839, and certification testing, factory audits, and certificate maintenance

• Understanding of BOM cost, manufacturing processes, yield, and supply chain, with the ability to complete pricing, sales forecasting, and gross margin analysis

• Proficiency in quality problem analysis methods (8D, 5Why, fishbone diagrams) and in Office and project management tools