Product Manager - Chicago, IL

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About the role

<div class="content-intro">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.</div>Impact In This Role: As a Product Manager at MISUMI Americas, you will own a defined product area - whether a feature set, a workflow, a capability, or a segment of our platform - 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 who is serious about the craft of product management and is ready to build the depth of judgment and business understanding needed to take on broader ownership over time. The listing location is Schaumburg, IL.

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Location: USA

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<div class="content-intro">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.</div>Impact In This Role: As a Product Manager at MISUMI Americas, you will own a defined product area - whether a feature set, a workflow, a capability, or a segment of our platform - 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 who is serious about the craft of product management and is 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 your 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. You will report to the VP, Product Management.&nbsp; Areas of Responsibility: <ul> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Business acumen and domain awareness <ul> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop a deep understanding of the customers, internal users, and business context relevant to your product area - including how your work connects to broader platform goals and company priorities</li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Research and synthesize customer needs, stakeholder feedback, and operational realities to build a clear, grounded point of view on the problems your team should be solving</li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Assess the needs of internal users across Operations, Sales, and other functions, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and remove friction in workflows that touch your area</li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Stay current on how your product area is performing - tracking metrics, monitoring trends, and developing hypotheses about where the biggest opportunities for improvement lie</li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build familiarity with the competitive landscape and with how MISUMI Americas' platform capabilities compare to alternatives available to our customers </li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Roadmap contribution, work analysis, and scoping <ul> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 1

Requirements

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 who is serious about the craft of product management and is ready to build the depth of judgment and business understanding needed to take on broader ownership over time.
The best PMs in this role will grow into Senior PMs who own full product areas with strategic autonomy. You will report to the VP, Product Management.&nbsp; Areas of Responsibility: <ul> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Business acumen and domain awareness <ul> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop a deep understanding of the customers, internal users, and business context relevant to your product area - including how your work connects to broader platform goals and company priorities</li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Research and synthesize customer needs, stakeholder feedback, and operational realities to build a clear, grounded point of view on the problems your team should be solving</li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Assess the needs of internal users across Operations, Sales, and other functions, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and remove friction in workflows that touch your area</li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Stay current on how your product area is performing - tracking metrics, monitoring trends, and developing hypotheses about where the biggest opportunities for improvement lie</li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build familiarity with the competitive landscape and with how MISUMI Americas' platform capabilities compare to alternatives available to our customers </li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Roadmap contribution, work analysis, and scoping <ul> <li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 1

About Fictiv

Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster Fictiv existsâ¨to help product innovators create. Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictivâs four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U. S..

A product role is usually a calendar of decisions: what to build next, what to cut, and how to know it worked. Discovery, specs, and launch notes are the artifacts. General PM practice is included so the listing has enough context to read as a full page.