Digital Product Manager (Engineering Platforms)

About the role

Polaris Inc. is a global leader in powersports, empowering employees to drive change and innovation. We seek a Digital Product Manager to lead the strategic advancement of our engineering systems towards Model-Based Product Development, focusing on foundational engineering capabilities centered around the PTC Windchill ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-horizon roadmap for PLM Design capabilities that support the end-to-end product lifecycle.
• Translate business outcomes into product priorities and initiatives that strengthen Polaris’ digital thread and model-based workflows across engineering, manufacturing, and service.
• Evaluate internal performance, business needs, market trends, and emerging capabilities to recommend modernization opportunities and investment priorities.
• Establish and lead product operating rhythms such as quarterly planning, roadmap reviews, and KPI reporting in partnership with business and D&IT leadership.
• Manage product budgets, investment cases, prioritization, and value realization to ensure transparent decision-making and measurable business impact.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to execute the roadmap using Agile and project management practices that support predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Lead product discovery and definition efforts by synthesizing user needs from workshops, analytics, voice of customer feedback, and stakeholder input, and translating those insights into clear requirements.
• Create and maintain a right-sized product backlog of epics, features, and stories, including acceptance criteria and just-in-time elaboration to support effective delivery.
• Lead or actively participate in key delivery ceremonies and release planning while coordinating cross-team dependencies and balancing near-term delivery with long-term architecture and platform sustainability.
• Provide product leadership for Windchill-based PLM capabilities and processes, including 3D BOM structures, configuration management, versioning, traceability, engineering change processes, release and approval workflows, and CAD/PDM integration patterns such as Creo and related toolchains.
• Partner with D&IT software engineering and platform teams to support platform health and scalability, including upgrades, performance, reliability, security, environment strategy, data governance standards, and product data quality outcomes.
• Drive adoption, change management, and partner performance by leading training and communication plans, champion networks, rollout waves, and usage measurement, while aligning stakeholders, managing tradeoffs, and ensuring vendor partners deliver to Polaris standards for quality, security, and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Industrial Design, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in IT or Engineering with increasing scope and accountability.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Management partnering with senior business stakeholders in complex enterprise environments.
• Recent experience supporting Model-Based Definition (MBD) transformation and practical enablement of MBD concepts.
• Demonstrated experience with PTC Engineering systems and product lifecycle processes.
• Proven ability to lead a product from concept through release, including roadmap definition, execution, and iterative improvement.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and managing backlogs, prioritization, and value-focused outcomes.
• Strong technical aptitude for evaluating requirements and collaborating with architects and engineers to make informed tradeoffs.
• Experience supporting or leading data migration readiness, partnering on data cleansing, validation, and cutover strategies.
• Ability to influence across a cross-functional matrix; strong stakeholder management and conflict-resolution skills.