Director, Product Management - Connectivity-Led Experiences (Hybrid - Oak Brook, IL)
Posted Jul 31, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 5, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you made hardware, firmware, cloud and mobile come together as one simple experience. Where did the seams show?
What they are checking: Real experience owning end-to-end connected experiences across teams that usually work in silos.
Tell me about a platform decision you made that was hard to reverse. How did you decide?
What they are checking: Judgment on high-stakes, long-lived choices like protocols and architectures that affect many products.
How do you align product, engineering, sales, marketing and operations behind a strategy none of them report to you on?
What they are checking: Cross-functional leadership through clarity and trust, which this role depends on.
What would you do
If you had to define what connected means for Chamberlain products, what principles would you start with?
What they are checking: Whether they can set a clear point of view that product teams can design toward, as the role requires.
A product team wants to ship a device with a connectivity approach that breaks your platform standards. What do you do?
What they are checking: How they enforce standards through influence and evidence while staying open to good exceptions.
How would you reduce the time a technician spends getting a connected device online at a customer's home?
What they are checking: Empathy for installers and practical thinking about onboarding friction in the field.
What would you do in your first six months to earn the latitude this role offers?
What they are checking: Whether they would build credibility and understanding before pushing large changes.
About the work
How would you run a Voice of Customer process that includes both homeowners and the dealers and technicians who install our products?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that channel partners are a separate customer with different needs and pain points.
How would you measure ease of use for a connected garage opener, from setup through everyday use?
What they are checking: Ability to turn a fuzzy goal like ease of use into metrics such as setup success rate and support contacts.
How do you show that connectivity drives profitable growth and not just a nicer experience?
What they are checking: Business sense about attach rates, subscriptions, retention and lower support costs tied to connectivity.
How do you weigh security and privacy against convenience in a product that controls access to someone's home?
What they are checking: Seriousness about the stakes of access products and the ability to design for both safety and simplicity.
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