Sr. Product Manager, Competitive Intelligence
Boston · USD 121,400-161,800 / year · 2-4 years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2-4 years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Boston
- Salary
- USD 121,400-161,800 / year · Base salary
About SimpliSafe
- We’re a high-tech home security company that’s passionate about protecting the life you’ve built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we’ve created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you’re building. Ours is a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We don’t just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.
- We’re embracing a hybrid work model that enables our teams to split their time between office and home. Hybrid for us means we expect our teams to come together in our state-of-the-art office on two core days, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday – working together in person and choosing where they work for the remainder of the week. We all benefit from flexibility and get to use the best of both worlds to get our work done.
About the role
- We are seeking a Competitive Intelligence Analyst to join our Product Management team and give our product organization a clear, current, and rigorous view of the competitive landscape.
- This is an individual-contributor role for someone who's energized by digging into a competitor's app updates, tearing down a new hardware SKU, or figuring out why a pricing change actually happened.
- This is a high-visibility opportunity to help shape and scale SimpliSafe's competitive intelligence practice within Product Management, with meaningful latitude to define how the role evolves.
Responsibilities
- Continuously track competitor hardware launches, software/app releases, feature changes, pricing and subscription-tier updates, and monitoring/service changes across the DIY and pro-install security segments.
- Maintain a living competitive intelligence repository (product specs, pricing, positioning, feature-parity matrices, SWOT-style profiles) that Product, Marketing, and Engineering can rely on as a single source of truth.
- Monitor public signals — app store listings and reviews, product teardowns, FCC filings, patent activity, job postings, earnings calls, and press — for early indicators of competitor roadmap direction.
- Conduct feature-gap and pricing/packaging analyses to help Product Managers understand where SimpliSafe leads, lags, or is at parity, and translate that into roadmap-ready recommendations.
- Partner with Product Managers during discovery and planning to bring competitive context into requirements, prioritization, and business cases.
- Run periodic deep-dive competitor teardown assessments (hardware unboxings, app walkthroughs, install/setup experience) to ground analysis in first-hand usage, not just secondary research.
- Support win/loss and customer research efforts, in partnership with UX Research and CX, to understand why customers choose or leave SimpliSafe relative to competitors.
- Produce clear, concise competitive briefs and readouts for Product and executive leadership — including materials that may be presented to the Executive Team or Board.
- Build and maintain lightweight tools (battlecards, comparison one-pagers, competitive digests) that Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams can self-serve.
- Champion hands-on familiarity with competitor products across the company by organizing employee testing programs, making it easy for teams beyond Product to experience the competitive landscape firsthand.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of experience in competitive intelligence, market research, product management, product analytics, product marketing, or a related analytical role — ideally with some exposure to hardware, IoT, or consumer electronics.
- Strong analytical and research skills, comfortable working with both quantitative data (pricing, specs, review scores) and qualitative signals (positioning, messaging, user sentiment).
- Excellent written and verbal communication — able to turn a pile of raw research into a tight, useful summary a busy PM will actually read.
- Self-directed and detail-oriented, with genuine curiosity about the category and a habit of noticing what changed and why.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally across Product, Marketing, and occasionally Sales/CX.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience or genuine interest in the smart home, home security, or connected hardware categories.
- Hands-on comfort using AI/LLM tools to accelerate research and monitoring workflows.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (Business, Marketing, Economics, or similar) — or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home
- Comprehensive total rewards package that supports wellness and provides security for SimpliSafers and their families
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Annual bonus program
- Equity
- Medical benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Lifestyle benefits
Workplace
- Hybrid work model enabling teams to split time between office and home
- Expectation to come together in the office on two core days, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday
