Software Product Manager
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Define and maintain strategic software product roadmaps aligned with customer needs, industry trends, and company goals.
- Translate market needs into product requirements and ensure alignment across departments throughout the product lifecycle.
- Develop and manage Market Requirement Documents (MRDs) with input from internal stakeholders and customers to ensure they reflect real-world use cases and industry demands.
- Collaborate with Engineering to define product specifications and performance benchmarks.
- Support Marketing and Sales with technical documentation, white papers, and industry publications.
- Lead product launch activities, ensuring readiness across pricing, documentation, training, and support.
- Track and report KPIs (sales, cost trends, margins, warranty expense) to guide strategic decisions and continuous improvement efforts.
- Provide expert-level support to Sales and customers, including technical inquiries and custom configurations.
- In collaboration with Engineering and Manufacturing, evaluate non-standard product requests for feasibility, pricing, and lead times.
- Create and deliver training materials for internal teams and customers.
- Conduct competitive analysis and identify opportunities for differentiation and innovation with support from industry management.
- Ensure integration and compatibility with external software and automation systems.
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering, data science, or a related field (master's preferred).
- 3-5 years of product management experience, ideally in B2B process automation markets.
- Strong leadership, organizational, and project management skills; proven ability to meet deadlines, adapt, and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Experience leading cross-functional team collaboration, working through conflict constructively, and driving projects to completion.
- Knowledge of software development, process automation architecture, and GMP-related software requirements.
- Experience with analytical instrumentation, spectroscopy (including roto-vibrational), and multivariate data analysis (PCA, PLS).
- Proficient in Microsoft Office; experience with ERP, CRM, and data reporting tools is a plus.
- Understanding of product development processes, SOPs, and digital workflows.
- Integration experience with PLC, DCS, SCADA systems, and data historians.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including public speaking.
- Family-owned, highly committed global company with a sustainable vision of the future.
- Lifelong learning encouraged by versatile training, tuition reimbursement, and further education opportunities.
- Comprehensive benefit package (to include medical, dental, vision) and 401(k) savings with company match.
- Compensation is competitive and includes bonus opportunities.
- Work-life balance encouraged through our 10 company-paid holidays, paid time off, paid parental leave, and employee assistance programs (financial, mental, and physical health and wellbeing).
- Employees work in a safety-first, climate controlled, clean manufacturing facility with utilization of Lean practices and ergonomic workstations to enhance productivity and comfort.