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Job Title: Mandarin speaking Consumer Product Manager (Smart Home) – Reading
The Skills You'll Need: Mandarin, Product Management, Technical Product, Smart Home
Your New Salary: up to £70k
Office based
Perm
Start: ASAP
Mandarin speaking Consumer Product Manager – What You'll be Doing:
1. Market & User Insight
- Conduct structured analysis of UK market trends, customer feedback, and competitor products (e.g. Ring, Eufy, Blink)
- Analyse user reviews, return reasons, and channel feedback to identify key product issues and opportunities
- Identify high-impact user pain points across installation, usability, and product experience
2. Product Requirement & Recommendation
- Translate market insights into clear, structured product requirements and improvement proposals
- Define problems in a way that is actionable for HQ Product and R&D teams
- Provide prioritised recommendations based on user impact and business relevance
3. Product Testing & Validation
- Perform hands-on testing of products (Key: Video Doorbell & Camera)
- Build real usage scenarios to evaluate installation, connectivity, performance, and user experience
- Identify product gaps and validate improvement opportunities with evidence
4. Cross-Team Collaboration (HQ Support)
- Work closely with HQ Product, R&D, and Testing teams to provide clear input and supporting materials
- Prepare structured documentation and analysis to support decision-making
- Follow up on product improvement items and assist in validation of solutions
Mandarin speaking Consumer Product Manager – The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:
- Experience in Product Management, Technical Product, or Smart Home / Consumer Electronics
- Experience with IoT / Smart Home / Camera / Networking products is highly preferred
- You have successfully completed your studies in computer science, electrical engineering, communications technology or a comparable focus.
- Familiar with the technology and market trends of smart home products and Internet products.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and project management skills, able to promote cross-departmental teamwork to achieve goals.
- Analytical thinking as well as excellent communication skills to troubleshoot problems effectively.
- You are self-motivated, detail-oriented, and responsible.
- Excellent English and Mandarin both spoken and written skills
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