The Product Manager will lead the hardware solutions strategy, manage vendor relationships, and ensure the hardware portfolio aligns with market needs and compliance standards. They will also collaborate across departments to gather customer insights and support go-to-market planning for new product launches.
Job Summary:
Elovate is a leader in hardware and software solutions for Automated Traffic Enforcement (ATE), including speed, red light, and construction work zone monitoring. Our mission is to support government agencies at all levels—state/provincial, municipal, and city—in achieving Vision Zero: eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries while promoting safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for all.
Elovate is seeking a dynamic Product Manager to lead our hardware solutions strategy, manage vendor relationships, and ensure our hardware portfolio aligns with market needs and compliance standards. This role combines product ownership, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver innovative traffic enforcement solutions.
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
Manage relationships with hardware vendors, monitor SLAs, and ensure alignment with project timelines.
Continuously review new hardware solutions in the market and evaluate them against compliance, performance, and customer needs.
Use AI tools to model roadmap trade-offs, simulate hardware configurations, and generate scenario analyses that support faster, more defensible prioritization decisions
Leverage AI-powered research tools to accelerate market analysis, competitive benchmarking, and hardware evaluation
Collaborate with Sales, Professional Services, Customer Support, Operations, and Marketing to gather customer insights and translate them into actionable recommendations.
Support go-to-market (GTM) planning by preparing release notes, feature overviews, and aligning product launches with cross-functional teams.
Utilize AI tools to draft and iterate on GTM assets including release notes, product briefs, and training materials to reduce time-to-publish and ensuring consistency across launches.
Deliver product demonstrations to clients and internal stakeholders to showcase capabilities and drive adoption.
Represent Elovate at trade shows and customer presentations.
Participate in product testing to ensure compliance with functional and regulatory requirements.
Identify and implement AI-driven automation across hardware evaluation workflows, SLA reporting, compliance tracking, and vendor documentation.
Essential Skills & Experience
3–5 years of experience as a Product Manager managing Agile teams and leading end-to-end product development.
Experience in the Automated Traffic Enforcement industry and familiarity with vehicle detection technologies.
Demonstrated proficiency with AI tools (such as Claude, ChatGPT, or equivalent) to accelerate research, documentation, and product workflows
Strong vendor management skills, including SLA tracking and roadmap coordination.
Excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent Agile certification.
Willingness to travel up to 25%.
Driven, detail-oriented, and forward-thinking, with a growth mindset and a hands-on approach to leveraging AI and new technologies as everyday productivity tools.
Why You’ll Love Working at Elovate
Health & Wellness
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
Life Insurance, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability Coverage.
Financial Benefits
Employee Stock Purchase Plan Company Bonus Plan, Referral Bonus Program.
Computer Purchase Plan, Discounts for home/auto insurance
For US positions 401(k) Plan and more.
Work-Life Balance
Company-paid Holidays, Vacation, and Personal Time Off.
Flexible working hours policy and Work from home options available (Some restrictions apply).
Professional Development
Employee education and development program that includes 100% tuition fees and book reimbursement (Some restrictions apply).
Employee Assistance
Access to counseling and wellness services through our Employee Assistance Program.
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