From lights, music, climate, security, and doorbells to whatever comes next, Brilliant makes interacting with all of your smart devices simple by building controls that are easy for everyone to access and use right in the walls of your home.
Our first product, the Brilliant Smart Home Control replaces any existing light switch to give you touch and voice control over smart home technology, including Sonos, Nest, Ring, Phillips Hue, and many others. Alexa is built in for voice control and there is a personalizable high-resolution display for touch control. Want to call the kids down for dinner? There is even a camera with a privacy shutter for room-to-room video chat.
Brilliant has received many awards for smart home products in 2018, including Best Smart Home Product (IHS), Best Home Automation (CTA, CEPro), Best IoT Consumer Hardware (IoT Innovator), Outstanding Innovation (CES), and more. Brilliant launched on September 6th and is available for purchase on www.brilliant.tech.
Brilliant was founded by Aaron Emigh, Steven Stanek, and Jeremy Hiatt, all of whom are experienced technology entrepreneurs from the mobile industry. It all started when Aaron began remodeling his home and installed some smart home products. They were great as individual devices, but Aaron soon realized that the more he installed, the worse the experience got. Navigating between multiple apps just to adjust the lights, lock the door, or set the thermostat was complicated. To add to the frustration, controlling the home exclusively through his mobile phone felt unnatural and awkward.
Seeing an opportunity to elevate the smart home experience, Aaron, Steven, and Jeremy teamed up. As they saw it, controlling our home environments should be as simple as flipping a switch. There’s a light switch in every room, and it’s already the home control that we use most often, so it made sense to replace light switches with smart controls that make it easy and natural for you to interact directly with your home. Brilliant is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Mateo, CA. Our notable investors include August Capital, SV Tech Ventures, The Box Group, and Miramar Ventures.
We are looking for a passionate and creative Product Manager to join the product team at Brilliant. The Product Manager will be responsible for working with other product managers, designers and engineers to research, understand, design, implement, and test key features for both the Brilliant Control and Mobile Apps.
The Brilliant Control is a unique product due to its ability to interact with consumers in many ways (touch, voice, motion sensing, mobile, etc.), while also controlling a wide range of smart home products (lights, music, climate, etc.).
This role is designed for a Product Manager with at least 3 years of work experience. You should be comfortable with wireframing and design platforms such as Balsamiq, Sketch, Abstract, and InVision, and have a track record of bringing great user experiences to life. As we are an early-stage company, successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to work quickly and collaboratively, infusing their work with creativity and compassion for our customers. Being able to test, adjust, and launch in a high-growth environment will be a critical skill.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with multiple stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, and other designers in drafting & brainstorming initial concepts and bringing them to fruition across both mobile and embedded systems.
- Participate, create, and utilize both quantitative and qualitative methods in understanding usage trends - including usability testing and analytics platforms.
- Manage goals, priorities, and deliverables for the UX and product functions that align with project milestones.
- Determine requirements and prioritization leveraging user research, partner needs, and product insight. Meet regularly with customers and channel partners to build intuition and user personas that reflect the unique usage and value patterns of our existing and target customers.
- Create iterative sketches, wireframes, user flows, and designs that meet project objectives, and respond to feedback from internal teams and user testing.Â
- Work across a wide range of projects, technologies and devices (including mobile, web, and smart home/IOT devices)
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience working in the field of product management.
- Bachelor's degree required from a strong university, preferably in an analytical field (e.g. Natural Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or Finance).
- Experience with product, design, and strategy that meet user needs, product requirements, and business goals
- Experience multi-tasking and managing multiple projects with various timelines
- Experience creating user experiences for the web, desktop applications and/or mobile and hand-held devices; small-screen UX on mobile or embedded systems a plus.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. Strong team player.
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