Software Product Manager - Factory Systems

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for the Forge Factory, with a clear point of view on the what, why, and why now.
• Build Forge Factory from the ground up: define the vision, scope the MVP, ship it, and iterate based on real user feedback and business outcomes.
• Partner with manufacturing, reliability, and product operations to define and deliver the software that connects their workflows into one coherent operating environment.
• Define the integration strategy between manufacturing systems and adjacent platforms (MES, ERP, AMS & WMS), ensuring the right data flows to the right people at the right time.
• Leverage AI and modern tooling to accelerate product development, from prototyping and requirements generation to building intelligent workflows that surface insights and reduce manual decision-making.
• Establish metrics and feedback loops that tie product work to measurable business outcomes, e.g., time to stand up or reconfigure a production line, line changeover time, asset uptime and utilization, and reduction in…
• Own prioritization, scope, tradeoff decisions, release planning, and execution quality across a cross-functional engineering team.
• Drive adoption so business teams and external partners actually use what you build, and spend less time fighting software and more time ensuring hardware excellence.

Job requirements

• Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, defense, Automation, Auto industry or other high-complexity physical product environments.
• Experience with multi-tenant platforms, and systems that serve internal users with differing access and workflow requirements.
• Comfortable producing mockups, wireframes, or interactive prototypes rapidly, whether through design tools, AI-assisted generation, or code.