Global Product Manager - Enterprise Platform

About the role

The Global Product Manager (Director) — Brady Enterprise Platform is responsible for owning the strategy, roadmap, and commercial execution of Brady's strategic software platform. This role is the single accountable business owner of the platform, defining what Brady Enterprise Platform is, how it is funded, how it is adopted across Brady's BUs, and how it is sold and integrated into customer environments.

Responsibilities

• Platform Strategy & Roadmap: Own the global Brady Enterprise Platform product strategy and multi-year roadmap. Define what the platform delivers, in what sequence, and how each release moves Brady's software business forward. Adjudicate competing demands from BUs and translate them into a coherent platform roadmap.
• Build vs. Buy Decisions: Lead the business-side build-vs-buy decisions for platform components — identity, billing, observability, integration platforms, and other commodity infrastructure. Partner with the CTO and R&D to ensure Brady builds only what is genuinely differentiating and buys what is commodity.
• BU Adoption & Internal Customer Success: Treat Brady's BU engineering and product teams as Brady Enterprise Platform's internal customers. Drive adoption of the platform across Brady software products.
• Customer & Channel Engagement: Develop deep understanding of how Brady's customers integrate software into their enterprise environments — ERP, MES, HIS, EH&S, and adjacent systems. Partner with Sales and customer-facing leaders to ensure Brady Enterprise Platform supports the integration patterns customers actually require.
• Commercial Execution: Own Brady Enterprise Platform's P&L view, and pricing posture. Build the business cases that govern annual gate reviews and scaling decisions.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with R&D leadership, Business Leaders, Product Managers, Sales, Marketing, and Operations. Serve as the connective tissue between technical execution (owned by R&D) and commercial outcomes (owned by the business).
• Product Culture: Champion rigorous product management discipline within the platform team and across Brady's broader software portfolio. Set the bar for how product decisions are made, documented, and communicated.
• Contribute to Software Leadership: As a key member of Brady's software leadership group, align Brady Enterprise Platform strategy with Brady's broader software portfolio vision and growth priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field is required, with a strong preference for candidates from a Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related Engineering background.
• MBA is a plus.
• Minimum of 10 years of product management experience in B2B software, with a strong preference for experience owning a software platform (multi-tenant SaaS, developer platform, or similar) on which other products were built.
• Minimum of 3 years leading product strategy at a Director or above level. Experience leading product teams in a mid-sized industrial or B2B company ($500M–$5B) preferred.
• Demonstrated success building or scaling B2B SaaS products, including hands-on experience integrating commercial components such as identity (Auth0, Okta), billing (Stripe), and observability tooling.
• Strong working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery preferred; willingness to lead a GCP-default platform strategy required.
• Experience with hardware-software integration — platforms or products that connect to physical devices such as printers, scanners, RFID readers, IoT sensors, or industrial equipment — strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting customer integration with enterprise systems (ERP, MES, HIS, EH&S, asset management) — understands the operational and commercial realities of selling software into industrial and regulated environments.
• Strong commercial instincts: understands P&L drivers, platform economics, and the dynamics of internal customer adoption versus external customer revenue.
• Track record of successful product launches across the full lifecycle — from strategy and requirements definition through launch, customer adoption, and commercial scale.
• Comfort with on-prem and air-gapped deployment requirements for government, defense, and regulated customers.
• Naturally curious, with a relentless drive to understand customer needs and translate them into platform capabilities that make Brady's broader software business more successful.

Qualifications

• Up to 30% travel, international and domestic.

Skills

• Exceptional communicator — able to influence and align across technical leadership (CTO, R&D), commercial leaders, BU leaders, and customers.

Benefits

Comprehensive insurance coverage starting on your first day of employment, including medical, dental, and vision
Generous 401(k) with company match
Paid time off and holidays
Opportunity to participate in incentive programs for all full-time employees
Family planning benefits including paid parental leave, fertility coverage, adoption and surrogacy assistance
Education reimbursement opportunities
Scholarship program for children of Brady employees
A variety of Employee Resource Groups to provide you with unique networking, development, and volunteer opportunities
Employee Assistance Program and related wellness programs (mental and behavioral health, family counseling, financial management)
Dress-for-your-day dress code
Charitable contributions matched through Brady's Matching Gift program