Product Manager

About the role

The Product Manager plays a key role in defining and delivering product strategy and execution across Industrial Scientific’s portfolio of integrated safety solutions, including hardware, embedded firmware, software, and related services. The successful candidate thrives in a global, cross-functional environment and partners closely with engineering (hardware and software), design, product marketing, sales, operations, and regional teams to translate customer needs and workflows into clear, end-to-end product direction and delivered outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain product strategy and roadmaps for integrated solutions that drive growth, improve customer outcomes, and strengthen competitive position across the portfolio.
• Identify product gaps and new opportunities through market analysis, customer insight, system performance data, and lifecycle considerations.
• Define outcome-based success metrics across adoption, usability, and business performance; use data to guide product decisions and tradeoffs across domains.
• Drive alignment around customer value, ensuring priorities are not siloed by hardware vs. software boundaries.
• Lead voice-of-customer activities, workflow observation, and market research to understand user needs, operational environments, pain points, and buying drivers across the full product lifecycle.
• Translate insights into system-level requirements that account for physical device constraints, digital experiences, connectivity, and service touchpoints.
• Conduct competitive assessments across devices, connected ecosystems, and software offerings; translate insights into differentiated product direction.
• Engage directly with customers, distributors, and internal stakeholders to validate problems, solution approaches, and tradeoffs; travel to customer sites as needed (~25%).
• Gather, prioritize, and refine requirements for integrated hardware, firmware, software, and cloud-enabled capabilities.
• Own backlog prioritization and work closely with engineering teams across disciplines to plan and deliver coordinated releases on a regular cadence.
• Review sprint and milestone deliverables, validate acceptance criteria, and partner with teams to ensure high-quality, reliable releases that function as a cohesive system.
• Balance new capabilities, usability improvements, cost, manufacturability, security, and sustainment needs based on customer and business impact.
• Partner with product marketing and commercial teams to define value propositions, positioning, and launch readiness for integrated solutions.
• Support strategic sales opportunities and contribute technical/functional inputs for RFIs and RFPs involving integrated products and systems.
• Act as a product champion—clearly communicating system-level strategy, decisions, dependencies, and progress to stakeholders at all levels.
• Build credibility with internal and external stakeholders through understanding of key gas detection technologies, customer workflows, and the real-world constraints of deploying integrated solutions (e.g., device + connectivity + cloud experience).

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in product management or related technical leadership roles, preferably involving integrated hardware–software products.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with hardware, firmware, and software engineering teams and lead cross-functional delivery.
• Experience with Agile product development, backlog management, and hybrid hardware–software development models.
• Strong systems-thinking capability, with comfort managing tradeoffs across devices, connectivity, software, and services.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with product, customer, operational, and business performance data.
• Experience in B2B environments with complex, safety-critical, or connected products and global stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; ability to influence without authority.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (approximately 25%).
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.

Pay

This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package. The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 88,000.00 - 147,000.00