Product Manager - Chicago, IL

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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 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.

Areas of Responsibility

• Business acumen and domain awareness
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Stay current on how your product area is performing — tracking metrics, monitoring trends, and developing hypotheses about where the biggest opportunities for improvement lie
• Build familiarity with the competitive landscape and with how MISUMI Americas' platform capabilities compare to alternatives available to our customers
• Roadmap contribution, work analysis, and scoping
• Contribute to roadmap development within your area with increasing independence, translating high-level goals into clearly scoped objectives, projects, and requirements
• Develop and maintain a framework for tracking input and output metrics that provide a quantitative view of the success and impact of your work
• Build business cases for prioritized initiatives, articulating the customer value, business rationale, and expected outc

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monstrates intellectual curiosity and learning velocity in developing new AI-assisted workflows as the tooling landscape evolves

• Builder mindset: comfortable experimenting with AI-assisted prototyping to communicate product ideas, test assumptions, and accelerate the feedback loop — treating working artifacts as a complement to written documentation, not a replacement for it
• Curiosity and learning agility: proactively seeks to understand the business, the customer, and the technical context — and applies new knowledge to improve their product decisions

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: $108,000 to $120,000 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.