Fittes

Product Manager, Physical Products Lifecycle

Fittes

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$90,000 - CA$105,000 per year

About the role

  • Own the full post-concept product lifecycle, including launch execution, performance monitoring, and end-of-life decisions.
  • Act as the internal product advocate, ensuring alignment and visibility across brand, marketing, sales, and operations.
  • Monitor product and inventory performance, identifying opportunities to accelerate movement, reposition, or exit underperforming SKUs.
  • Apply a strong commercial lens to prioritize where to invest, relaunch, or discontinue products.
  • Manage strategic relationships with third-party vendors and manufacturers to ensure quality, reliability, and delivery standards.
  • Drive vendor accountability through clear expectations, performance metrics, and ongoing partnership management.
  • Lead and project-manage cross-functional product initiatives such as relaunches, repositioning, and end-of-life transitions.
  • Translate insights and decisions into clear actions, aligning teams toward shared outcomes.
  • Bring structure to ambiguity by creating, improving, and scaling repeatable product and operational processes.
  • Serve as a key point of coordination across teams when priorities shift or challenges arise.
  • Play a key role on the Product Launch Taskforce, ensuring products are launched on time and with clear accountability.
  • Lead launch-related working sessions, keeping teams aligned on milestones and deliverables.
  • Proactively surface risks and escalate issues early to maintain launch momentum and transparency with leadership.
  • Leverage product performance, inventory signals, and market inputs to generate clear, actionable insights.
  • Use data to test assumptions, inform trade-offs, and influence product and lifecycle decisions.
  • Connect detailed analysis to broader business strategy, supporting leadership decision-making.
  • Incorporate market and competitive trends into ongoing product optimization and planning.
  • Act as a culture carrier by modeling Fittes’ values in how you work and collaborate.
  • Communicate proactively and transparently, especially when plans or timelines are at risk.
  • Demonstrate resilience and a growth mindset—learning quickly and moving forward with clarity.
  • Contribute positively to team initiatives, feedback cycles, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of experience in product management, product operations, procurement, or sales strategy and you’re excited by roles that blend strategy with execution
  • Have worked with physical products (think steel, plastic, manufacturing environments) and understand the realities of quality, sourcing, and production. This role is not a fit for candidates with tech/SaaS-only product experience
  • Have been hands-on in product launches and lifecycle decisions, including making (and executing) the call to reposition, rationalize, or retire SKUs when it’s time
  • Love turning messy data into a clear direction. You're deeply comfortable in Excel or Google Sheets, can run your own analyses (like aged inventory), and use insights to drive action
  • Enjoy being the connector across teams, collaborating with product, marketing, sales, and operations to move work forward
  • Are equally comfortable being a doer and a strategic thinker, you don’t wait for perfect conditions to start
  • Know how to influence without authority, aligning indirect stakeholders like brand partners, ops teams, and external vendors
  • Thrive in environments with ambiguity and momentum, and genuinely enjoy building new processes, taking ownership, and figuring things out as you go
Benefits
  • Pay-for-performance profit-sharing bonus structure
  • Flexible and inclusive benefits including HSA
  • Employee Stock Option Plan
  • Hybrid work structure - we are committed to 3 days in office
  • Open concept, bright, dog-friendly office vibe (our furry friends can’t wait to meet you!)
  • Strict “No email/slack on phones” policy and “No email/slack outside of office hours” policy — we value our personal time and are committed to protecting this for our team members.
  • Fully stocked kitchen with snacks and fresh fruit
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
product managementproduct operationsprocurementsales strategydata analysisExcelGoogle Sheetsproduct lifecycle managementperformance monitoringinventory management
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationstrategic thinkinginfluence without authorityresiliencegrowth mindsetproblem-solvingownershipadaptabilityteamwork