Dir. , Technical Product Management

Job Description

Location: US — Remote/Hybrid/On-site as required by manufacturing engagement

Reports to: Head of Manufacturing Systems

Grade: Senior / R5-equivalent

About the role

We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead strategic development of our Integrated Printing and Plastic Manufacturing system — a mission-critical platform that orchestrates complex, configurable manufacturing across printing and plastics lines. This senior leadership role requires deep domain fluency across both industrial software and automation/controls. You will set the product vision, align multi-year strategy with executive priorities, and partner closely with manufacturing leadership, engineering, and operations to deliver capabilities that materially improve throughput, quality, flexibility and cost-to-serve for highly customized manufacturing requirements.

Why this role matters

• The platform drives end-to-end execution of complex custom orders: quoting/configuration, planning and scheduling, production execution, quality, and fulfillment.

• Your leadership will reduce waste, shorten lead times, lower TCO, and enable new commercial models for custom and low-volume production.

• You will operate at the intersection of executive strategy, software delivery, control systems engineering and shopfloor operations — shaping the technical and operational trajectory of the business.

Key responsibilities

Product vision, strategy & leadership

• Set and continuously evolve the multi-year product vision and strategy for the Integrated Printing & Plastic Manufacturing system, ensuring alignment with executive priorities and plant-level objectives.

• Own the product roadmap, balancing strategic investments (e.g., automation integration, configurators, advanced scheduling) with tactical delivery and technical sustainability.

• Develop and defend high-value business cases and investment priorities to senior stakeholders and the executive team.

Stakeholder engagement & influence

• Act as the senior product leader and primary point of contact for manufacturing leadership, engineering, commercial teams, supply chain, quality, IT, and external partners/vendors.

• Lead stakeholder engagement strategies, facilitation of governance forums, and executive-level decisioning to align priorities and resolve trade-offs.

• Serve as product champion in executive discussions, articulating risks, dependencies and expected outcomes.

Technical ownership: software + automation/controls

• Provide technical leadership across software, integrations and automation/controls; translate shopfloor realities into robust digital and control solutions.

• Drive architecture-level decisions and integration approaches across MES/MOM, ERP, PLM, IIoT platforms, PLC/SCADA, vision/inspection systems and robotics.

• Ensure solutions meet functional, performance, reliability, safety and security requirements appropriate for industrial environments.

Requirements definition & systems design

• Lead scoping, requirements definition, and prioritization for large, cross-cutting initiatives (configurable BOMs, dynamic routing, nested work orders, advanced scheduling, in-line inspection and feedback loops).

• Produce system design inputs, models and prototypes; evaluate alternative designs and trade-offs with technical SMEs.

• Own requirements baselines, change control and acceptance criteria, ensuring delivered solutions map to expected outcomes.

Delivery, adoption & benefits realization

• Lead cross-functional delivery programs (software, controls, integrations, data/analytics, automation vendors), ensuring disciplined program governance and predictable delivery.

• Drive release planning, deployment, user acceptance, and adoption across p