Leader of Software Product Management
Grand Rapids, MI - USA
Job Summary
Operating at enterprise scale the role balances long term platform strategy with near term commercial execution ensuring software products drive revenue growth margin expansion and customer value across global markets.
We offer:
Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $175000.00 to $300000.00 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location education experience knowledge and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:
Responsibilities:
- Define and own the global software product vision roadmap and Annual Operating Plans aligned with corporate strategy growth priorities and market trends in supply chain and logistics technology.
- Measure Software Product and Offering portfolio as a pseudo-P&L ensuring strong operational and investment outcomes
- Lead portfolio prioritization across platforms applications and digital services balancing innovation scalability and lifecycle management.
- Partner with Sales Marketing and Regional Leaders to ensure products are commercially compelling clearly positioned and aligned to customer value propositions.
- Own product business cases including revenue growth margin pricing and investment tradeoffs.
- Engage directly with strategic customers and partners to validate roadmap direction and ensure strong productmarket fit.
- Serve as the primary interface between Product Management and Software Development ensuring clear requirements prioritized backlogs and outcomebased delivery.
- Identify emerging technologies and warehouse application and trends (e.g. cloud platforms data & analytics AIenabled optimization) and translate them into practical scalable product capabilities.
Experience:
- 10-15 years experience in software product management development sales and / or deployment with senior leadership responsibility for enterprise or B2B software portfolios.
- Preference given for experience within the Supply Chain Solutions industry as either operator or provider of supply chain software. Supply chain planning Warehouse Management and Warehouse Execution Software experience is most relevant
- Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Business or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Strong understanding of modern software development cloud platforms and Agile product delivery models.
- Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels influencing executive stakeholders while driving operational results.
- Experience working in matrixed international organizations with significant commercial and customer interaction.
About Company
We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.