About this role
The Senior Product Manager for Alto Professional drives the end-to-end product lifecycle for live sound and sound reinforcement hardware. This includes active loudspeakers, portable PA systems, powered subwoofers, live sound mixers, and wireless audio gear. The ideal candidate bridges live sound engineering, market research, and business strategy to conceive, design, and deliver accessible, high-value audio solutions for gigging musicians, DJs, venues, and sound operators. Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership Market & Competitive Analysis: Monitor trends in live sound, DJ gear, portable PA systems, and commercial sound reinforcement to identify market gaps and competitive threats (e.g., JBL, QSC, Mackie, Behringer). Roadmap Definition: Maintain and execute a multi-year product roadmap that aligns with Alto Professional’s positioning of high-output, feature-rich live sound equipment at accessible price points. Business Case & Opportunity Assessment: Evaluate return on investment (ROI), target retail price points, volume forecasts, and gross margin targets for proposed new products. Technical Specifications & Design Direction Product Concepting using relevant tools to create 2D or 3D concept imagery, feature lists, competitive and financial analysis to seek approval for new concepts driven out of the roadmap or executive direction. Product Specifications: create the document defining the product including user features, engineering, firmware, app, and hardware specifications—defining key features such as driver sizes, amplifier class/wattage, DSP features, Bluetooth/wireless capability, and IO configurations. Competitive Landscape: Draft detailed competitive matrices ensuring each new product concept meets competitive standards and seek features and/or cost differentiation. Design Team Collaboration: Work directly with internal and external EE/ID/ME/SW and project management development teams to refine product development during prototyping stages. Prototype Testing: Conduct hands-on testing of early acoustic samples, DSP voicings, gain staging, and physical durability in office and under real-world gigging conditions providing direction and decision making for the development team. Cross-Functional & Vendor Execution Manufacturing Liaison: Maintain continuous communication with overseas contract manufacturers’ project managers and engineering teams to resolve design through manufacturing challenges in conjunction with Alto Project management. Project Tracking: Use workflow tools (e.g., SharePoint and Jira) to manage project document control and communications. Go-To-Market (GTM) & Commercialization Marketing & Sales Enablement: Collaborate with brand marketing and graphics teams to create product naming, packaging callouts, web copy, sales decks, and promotional videos. Execute Marketing handoff meetings and support regional sales personnel for channel sell-in support Trade Show & Dealer Support: Present new product lines at major industry events (e.g., NAMM) and conduct technical training for internal sales reps and retail partners. 6. Lifecycle & Quality Management Sustaining Engineering: Evaluate customer reviews, support team reports, and return data to implement running firmware updates or hardware refinements. End-of-Life (EOL) Strategy: Manage product transitions and phase-outs as next-generation models are introduced