Tom Hinds

Senior Director, Product Management @ Acuity

About

A product management professional with over 18 years of experience bringing hardware, software, connected, and IoT products to market. Experienced working in waterfall, Agile, and hybrid development environments for non-connected and connected hardware, firmware, and software. Adept at translating customer problems to innovative products in lighting and building systems markets. Serving in a variety of roles, I have introduced new product strategies, new product categories, Agile planning and development concepts, and lean startup concepts to organizations. Skilled in navigating organizations from front-line employees to the C-suite, I have managed a P&L, developed people, worked on post-acquisition integration activities, brought strategic new category product platforms to market, and driven business turnaround and transformation changes.

Country

United States

City

Apex

Industry

Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing

Skill

Product Requirement Definition, Go-to-Market Strategy, Leadership, People Development, Product Road Mapping, Customer Product Training, Product Training, Training Delivery, Product Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Product Marketing, Product Development, Product Launch, Wireless, Strategy, Product Lifecycle Management, Manufacturing, Testing, Engineering, Strategic Planning

Experience

Senior Director, Product Management

Acuity

2024-8 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Lead product management for the eldoLED business, including eldoLED LED drivers, Optotronic LED drivers, and light engines.

Vice President, Product Strategy

Cree Lighting Commercial

2024-2 - 2024-8 · 7 mos

Lead product management, pricing, and technical support and applications teams. * Senior Leadership Team * Product and vertical strategy * Product roadmap * P&L management * Pre- and Post-Sale support strategy * People development

Director, Product Management

Cree Lighting Commercial

2023-8 - 2024-1 · 6 mos

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Product management team leader responsible for product roadmap and strategy. * Product and vertical strategy * Product roadmap * P&L management * Team leadership

Director, Product Management - Indoor, Warehouse, and Canopy Lighting

Cree Lighting Commercial

2021-5 - 2023-8 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Product management, product marketing, and vertical marketing for Warehouse/Industrial Lighting, Petroleum Lighting, Indoor Lighting and Intelligent Lighting * Product and business strategy for connected and IoT smart lighting products * Vertical market strategy for warehouse, industrial, petroleum, and indoor lighting * P&L management * Product team leadership

Director, Product Management - Intelligent Lighting

Cree Lighting Commercial

2018-5 - 2021-5 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Product management, sales, and application engineering leadership for Intelligent Lighting category * Product strategy and roadmap * P&L management * Sprint planning, backlog grooming, release management * Business case and business model development * Revenue planning and forecast * Oversee product launches and marketing

Senior Product Portfolio Manager

Cree

2011-9 - 2018-5 · 6 yrs 9 mos

Product management and product marketing for indoor, outdoor, industrial, and intelligent lighting portfolios * Introduced SmartCast Technology - the first wireless luminaire-level lighting control (LLLC) system capable of self-startup with the press of one button * Channel strategy developed for intelligent lighting products featuring SmartCast Technology