Director of Product Management

Location: **Remote** – **Candidates must be based in the PST and able to work Pacific Time zone hours.** Hanwha Vision is a global leader in video surveillance and physical security technology, part of the Hanwha Group. Our Software Solutions organization builds the products that power video management, access control, AI, and cloud security for customers worldwide, including BLAZE, our unified VMS, Access Control, and Direct\-to\-Cloud platform. We work across a globally distributed team spanning our US operations and Korean headquarters to ship products that protect people, buildings, and businesses. Hanwha Vision is hiring a Director, Product Management to own our Access Control product line. This is a player\-coach role: you will manage a team of product managers while remaining deeply hands\-on with roadmap, requirements, and day\-to\-day execution. We have significant new capability to build, including the buildout of BLAZE Access Control as part of our Unified Platform consolidation, and we need a leader who can both set direction and personally drive features from concept through launch. You will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for our Access Control portfolio, spanning cloud\-managed software and hardware, and will work closely with engineering (US and Korea), UX, sales, channel partners, and Korean HQ stakeholders. This role reports to the Head of Software Product Management and manages a team of product managers supporting Access Control. **Key Responsibilities:****Product Strategy and Roadmap*** Define and own the product vision, strategy, and multi\-year roadmap for Hanwha Vision's Access Control line, including its integration into the unified BLAZE platform * Develop and defend prioritization frameworks that balance customer needs, SI/channel partner requirements, technical feasibility, and business objectives Represent Access Control in company\-wide platform planning alongside Video, Direct\-to\-Cloud, and Agentic AI workstreams * **Hands\-On Execution*** Personally author PRDs, user stories, and detailed requirements for priority features, particularly where the team is still building foundational capability * Manage the end\-to\-end product lifecycle from discovery through delivery, working directly with engineering in daily standups and sprint planning, not just at milestone reviews Stay close to escalations, hard deployment dates, and critical\-path items, and be willing to dig into the details personally when a launch is at risk * **Domain and Technical Depth*** Bring hands\-on depth across the access control stack: mobile and multi\-factor credentialing (BLE/NFC, PKI\-based credentials), high\-availability controller architectures and failover/degraded\-mode behavior at scale (multi\-site, thousands of doors), and convergence use cases that tie access events to video and analytics * Make and defend architecture trade\-offs for edge, server, and cloud\-managed deployments, including how ide