--- title: 'Director of Product Management at Fictiv' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-of-product-management-fictiv-schaumburg-25xmxwpnj9w2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-04' --- # Director of Product Management at Fictiv - **Company:** Fictiv - **Location:** Schaumburg, IL - **Posted:** 2026-09-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fictiv/jobs/8783501002 ## Job description ## 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. Impact In This Role: As the Director of Product Management, you will own the product strategy and integrated roadmap across multiple product domains at MISUMI Americas, including catalog platform and search, e-commerce platform experience, supply chain, customer experience, and business systems. You will champion a significant product organization, directing both senior individual contributors and people managers to translate high-level company strategy into actionable, impact-driven roadmaps that deliver measurable results. Serving as the vital link between executive leadership, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams, you ensure we are solving the most critical problems with increasing speed and precision. You will operate as both a visionary leader and a hands-on navigator, establishing clear direction while actively resolving trade-offs and elevating the standard of excellence across our expanding product management organization. You will report to the VP, Product Management. What You’ll Be Doing: Domain strategy and portfolio leadership - Own the product strategy and integrated roadmap across multiple domain areas, ensuring investments are focused on the highest-value opportunities for customers and the business - Translate company strategy and commercial priorities into a coherent, well-sequenced domain roadmap with clear goals, milestones, and business rationale - Build and maintain a strong domain-level perspective on the competitive landscape, customer needs, operational constraints, and technology capabilities - Identify and resolve cross-domain dependencies and tradeoffs, driving alignment across product areas so that team roadmaps are mutually reinforcing rather than at odds - Develop business cases for significant investments and secure alignment across the management team and senior stakeholders ## Team leadership and PM development - Lead, develop, and manage a substantial product management organization that includes both individual contributor PMs and PM managers — building a high-performing team with strong product judgment, communication discipline, and execution rigor - Coach PMs on discovery, prioritization, scoping, stakeholder alignment, launch readiness, and outcome measurement — raising the quality bar across all dimensions of the craft - Create a collaborative, accountable team culture where PMs are growing in independence, taking ownership, and delivering results with minimal escalation - Drive consistent standards for roadmap development, requirements definition, goal-setting, and retrospective learning across the team - Contribute to talent strategy, including hiring, onboarding, and long-term development planning for the PM organization Cross-functional alignment and stakeholder partnership - Build and sustain strong working relationships with Engineering, Design, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Finance leadership to ensure product direction is well understood and collaboratively shaped - Serve as the primary escalation point for cross-functional issues within the domain, driving resolution through clear communication, good judgment, and constructive tradeoff decisions - Represent the product domain in senior leadership and executive forums, communicating strategy, roadmap status, tradeoffs, and results with clarity and confidence - Foster a cross-functional environment where information flows freely, decisions are made at the right level, and teams trust each other to deliver Roadmap execution and operational discipline - Ensure PMs maintain the rigor and discipline needed to deliver against priorities: clear requirements, well-managed scope, proactive risk identification, and tight coordination with Engineering and Design - Establish and track meaningful input and output metrics across the domain, using quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate impact, inform prioritization, and drive continuous improvement - Drive successful product launches by ensuring all functions — Engineering, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Support — are prepared and aligned - Maintain visibility into team-level execution, surfacing progress and risks to leadership with candor and regularity - Apply Agile methodologies thoughtfully, helping teams structure their work for sustainable velocity and predictable delivery - Travel approximately 15% annually for team collaboration, customer research, partner visits, and industry engagement Experience: Required - 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 4 years leading and managing a multi-layered PM organization that includes both individual contributors and people managers - Demonstrated success leading product strategy and execution for a large-catalog B2B or B2C e-commerce platform — experience with catalog scale (hundreds of thousands to millions of SKUs), search and navigation, pricing display and transactional workflows is required - Track record of building and maintaining integrated roadmaps across multiple teams or product areas, including managing cross-domain dependencies and stakeholder alignment. - Proven ability to develop PM talent — hiring, coaching, and growing product managers into more senior and independent contributors - Experience building and gaining senior leadership alignment on product strategy, business cases, and investment prioritization - Strong background in cross-functional collaboration, with demonstrated experience partnering with Engineering, Design, Operations, and commercial functions to deliver meaningful outcomes - Experience using customer insights, operational data, and business metrics to drive strategic product decisions and roadmap evolution - Experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to apply them to drive execution discipline at the team level ## Skills - Strategic thinking: ability to synthesize business goals, customer insights, operational realities, and technology constraints into a clear, prioritized product direction - People leadership: proven ability to develop product managers — coaching for growth, delivering honest feedback, and building a high-performing, high-trust team - Strong analytical skills: ability to evaluate opportunity size, build business cases, and use data to drive high-quality decisions across a complex product portfolio - Excellent communication: able to articulate strategy and tradeoffs clearly to both executive audiences and cross-functional teams, in writing and in conversation - Influence without authority: builds trust and earns credibility across Engineering, Operations, and commercial functions through strong judgment, follow-through, and genuine partnership - Results orientation: focused on outcomes, not just output — able to hold the team accountable to impact while navigating ambiguity and change - Comfortable navigating systems with deep interdependencies and integrations, including large-scale catalog, transactional, and operational platforms - Active and advancing AI practice: uses AI tools as a genuine accelerant across discovery, synthesis, prototyping, and decision-making — and is actively building toward team-level AI workflows that raise the collective capability of the PM organization, not just personal efficiency - Working understanding of how AI is reshaping the product management role — including which PM activities are being automated, which are becoming more valuable, and what that means for how to recruit, develop, and evaluate a product team in this environment ## Preferred - Experience in or exposure to new hardware product development, factory automation, or mechanical/industrial engineering — understanding of the engineering workflows that drive demand for industrial components - Background in industrial parts supply, distribution, or manufacturing supply chain, including familiarity with how procurement teams and engineers source mechanical components - Experience managing product platforms with complex configurability requirements — such as parametric search, attribute-based filtering, or custom order logic at scale - Familiarity with business systems and operational tooling (e.g., ERP integrations, OMS, WMS) and how they intersect with customer-facing product experiences ## Perks and Benefits - Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance - 401K plan - Parental leave programs - Paid volunteer days - And much, much more! Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, fingers, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch. Salary Range: $210,000 to $225,000 per year, depending upon experience Interested in learning more?  We look forward to hearing from you soon. We’re actively seeking teammates who: - Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company. - Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team. - Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth. - Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins. - Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans. ## About Fictiv ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fictiv provides a digital operating system for custom manufacturing, connecting product creators with a global network of vetted manufacturers to source custom mechanical parts quickly and efficiently. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E, last funding round May 2022) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States, with additional offices in Guangzhou, China; Phoenix, Arizona; Pune, India; and Bengaluru, India - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Dave Evans and Nathan Evans ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Custom manufacturing / Digital supply chain services - **Target customers**: B2B, serving early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises across industries such as automotive, medical devices, robotics, and consumer electronics - **Mission / Purpose**: “To enable product creators to innovate” by building the world’s operating system for custom manufacturing – making it possible to build hardware at the speed of software. ## Products & Services - **Digital Manufacturing Platform**: An integrated online system for quoting, design for manufacturability (DFM) feedback, order management, and real-time tracking. Supports 3D printing, CNC machining, injection molding, and urethane casting, with lead times as fast as 1–2 days. - **Global Manufacturing Network**: A managed network of manufacturing partners across the U.S., Mexico, India, China, and Japan, offering supply chain resilience and regional sourcing flexibility. - **Technical Program Management**: Hands-on support from Fictiv engineers and program managers to guide customers from prototype through full-scale production. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $200M (as of Series E in May 2022) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Includes Honeywell, Intel, Bill Gates (via Gates Frontier), and other institutional investors [fictiv.com](https://www.fictiv.com/about-us) - **Growth Signals**: - Over 35 million parts manufactured to date [fictiv.com](https://www.fictiv.com/) - Served more than 5,000 companies - Expanded to four global Centers of Excellence (U.S., Mexico, India, China) to reduce supply chain risk - Active hiring across engineering, sales, and operations (51 active jobs on Greenhouse as of mid-2026) ## Competitive Advantages - **Digital-first OS for manufacturing**: Combines an automated quoting and DFM engine with a vetted global network, reducing the typical friction of custom part sourcing. - **Speed and traceability**: Parts delivered in as fast as 24 hours, with full traceability and trackability at every step. - **Global, multi-region supply chain**: Customers can choose supply regions (U.S., Mexico, India, China, Japan) to mitigate geopolitical and logistics risk. - **Enterprise-grade quality management**: Integrated quality control and program management support, appealing to Fortune 500-level production requirements. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling global manufacturing hubs**: Expanding in-region Centers of Excellence to offer faster, lower-risk production close to customers. - **AI and automation**: Using artificial intelligence to accelerate quoting, DFM feedback, and supply chain decisions (including in employment decisions for internal operations). - **Deepening enterprise relationships**: Targeting large OEMs and regulated industries (medical, aerospace, automotive) with compliance and traceability features. - **Platform ecosystem**: Enhancing the digital platform with new materials, finishes, and real-time analytics to further reduce time-to-market for hardware innovators. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: Emphasizes a “Service Mentality” (value #2), collaboration, diversity, and autonomy. Described as a passionate team across multiple global offices. - **Work policy**: Remote-friendly environment with systems to keep distributed teams connected. Offices in San Francisco, Guangzhou, Phoenix, Pune, and Bengaluru. - **Perks and benefits**: - Monthly virtual work stipend - Wellness perks - Paid volunteer days - Learning and development stipend (Udemy Business courses, continued education stipends) - Leadership coaching for high performers - Paid parental leave - Equity options - **Engineering culture**: Access to modern tools (Salesforce, data engineering, integrations) and direct exposure to executive leadership; strong focus on career growth and autonomy. ## Sources 1. [Fictiv Careers Page](https://www.fictiv.com/careers) 2. [Fictiv Main Website](https://www.fictiv.com/) 3. [Fictiv About Us Page](https://www.fictiv.com/about-us) 4. [Crunchbase – Fictiv](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fictiv) 5. 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