Fictiv
Director of Product Management
Schaumburg, IL · Director
Sponsorship not specified$210k-$235kDetected 26 days ago
Product ManagementProduct StrategyAgileSupply ChainProcurementResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- About MISUMI Americas MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions.
- You will operate as both a visionary leader and a hands-on navigator, establishing clear direction while actively resolving trade-offs and elevating the standard of excellence across our expanding product management organization.
- You will report to the VP, Product Management.
Responsibilities
- You will champion a significant product organization, directing both senior individual contributors and people managers to translate high-level company strategy into actionable, impact-driven roadmaps that deliver measurable results.
- Build and maintain a strong domain-level perspective on the competitive landscape, customer needs, operational constraints, and technology capabilities
- Develop business cases for significant investments and secure alignment across the management team and senior stakeholders
- Lead, develop, and manage a substantial product management organization that includes both individual contributor PMs and PM managers - building a high-performing team with strong product judgment, communication discipline, and execution rigor
- Create a collaborative, accountable team culture where PMs are growing in independence, taking ownership, and delivering results with minimal escalation
- Build and sustain strong working relationships with Engineering, Design, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Finance leadership to ensure product direction is well understood and collaboratively shaped
- Foster a cross-functional environment where information flows freely, decisions are made at the right level, and teams trust each other to deliver
- Ensure PMs maintain the rigor and discipline needed to deliver against priorities: clear requirements, well-managed scope, proactive risk identification, and tight coordination with Engineering and Design
- Establish and track meaningful input and output metrics across the domain, using quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate impact, inform prioritization, and drive continuous improvement
- Drive successful product launches by ensuring all functions - Engineering, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Support - are prepared and aligned
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 4 years leading and managing a multi-layered PM organization that includes both individual contributors and people managers
- experience with catalog scale (hundreds of thousands to millions of SKUs), search and navigation, pricing display and transactional workflows is required
- Experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to apply them to drive execution discipline at the team level
Compensation
- Travel approximately 15% annually for team collaboration, customer research, partner visits, and industry engagement
Benefits
- Drive consistent standards for roadmap development, requirements definition, goal-setting, and retrospective learning across the team
Company info
- About MISUMI Americas
- MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions.
- By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle.
- With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.
- Serving as the vital link between executive leadership, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams, you ensure we are solving the most critical problems with increasing speed and precision.
- Own the product strategy and integrated roadmap across multiple domain areas, ensuring investments are focused on the highest-value opportunities for customers and the business
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