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MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. The company integrates a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform to empower engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle.
As a Product Manager at MISUMI Americas, you will own a defined product area—whether a feature set, workflow, capability, or platform segment—and be responsible for delivering strong, well-executed product work within it. You will gather and synthesize customer, stakeholder, and performance insights; write clear requirements; partner closely with Engineering and Design on delivery; and track outcomes to drive continuous improvement.
This role is designed for someone serious about the craft of product management and ready to build the depth of judgment and business understanding needed to take on broader ownership over time. You will be expected to deliver reliably, communicate clearly, build credibility with cross-functional partners, and show increasing independence as you develop fluency in the domain. The best PMs in this role will grow into Senior PMs who own full product areas with strategic autonomy.
Key responsibilities include:
**Business Acumen & Domain Awareness:** Develop deep understanding of customers, internal users, and business context relevant to your product area. Research and synthesize customer needs, stakeholder feedback, and operational realities to build a grounded point of view on problems your team should solve. Assess needs of internal users across Operations, Sales, and other functions to identify opportunities for efficiency gains. Stay current on product area performance by tracking metrics, monitoring trends, and developing hypotheses about improvement opportunities. Build familiarity with the competitive landscape and how MISUMI's platform capabilities compare to alternatives.
**Roadmap Contribution & Work Analysis:** Contribute to roadmap development within your area with increasing independence, translating high-level goals into clearly scoped objectives, projects, and requirements. Develop and maintain a framework for tracking input and output metrics that provide quantitative views of work success and impact. Build business cases for prioritized initiatives, articulating customer value, business rationale, and expected outcomes to earn stakeholder confidence.
You will report to the VP of Product Management. The role is based in Schaumburg, IL, with company operations also in the San Francisco Bay Area.
