Director, Technical Product Management
MSD
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lenexa • Kansas, New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $169,700 - $267,200 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
CloudCyber SecurityERP
About the role
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 plants; partner with change management to embed new ways of working with operators and supervisors
- Define, measure and report product KPIs and benefits realization (e.g., OEE, lead time, yield, scrap rates, order-to-ship lead time, TCO), iterating until outcomes are achieved
- Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, security, data governance, safety and regulatory requirements; manage risks from integrations and on-prem/edge control systems
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and Architecture teams to define integration patterns and operating models for edge-cloud solutions and vendor-supplied automation
- Mentor and coach product managers, product owners and feature managers; build product management capability within manufacturing and digital teams
- Help define hiring needs, competency development and team structure to scale the product function
Requirements
- 7+ years product management experience with progressive seniority
- 5+ years leading complex enterprise/manufacturing systems or industrial software products
- Strong hands-on experience spanning software systems (MES/MOM, ERP integrations, cloud/edge) and automation/controls (PLCs, SCADA, robotics, vision systems)
- Deep domain knowledge of manufacturing processes including: production planning, tooling/changeovers, nested BOMs, quality inspection, material handling
- Proven track record owning end-to-end product lifecycle for large, complex systems and delivering measurable business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to create and defend business cases and lead benefits realization at scale
- Expertise in requirements management for multi-stakeholder initiatives; comfortable negotiating priorities and baselining requirements
- Strong systems thinking, architecture awareness and experience working with software engineering and control systems teams
- Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication and facilitation skills; experience engaging at C-suite and shopfloor levels
- Data-driven mindset with experience defining and tracking product KPIs and using data for prioritization
- Experience with safety, security and regulatory considerations in industrial environments
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing or equivalent experience
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product managementrequirements managementsoftware systemsautomation controlsdata analyticsarchitecture awarenessbusiness case developmentproduct lifecycle managementKPI trackingstakeholder engagement
Soft skills
executive communicationfacilitation skillssystems thinkingnegotiationmentoringcoachingteam buildingchange managementstrategic thinkingleadership
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Industrial EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Manufacturing