Director Foodservice Product Management

Description

Freedom Electronics is a market-leading provider of electronic parts and solutions for the retail petroleum industry and adjacent equipment markets. We source and resell OEM parts, repair and remanufacture high-value electronic components, and engineer proprietary replacement products that help customers reduce equipment downtime and operating costs.

Freedom is expanding these capabilities into the commercial food service market, initially serving convenience-store operators, restaurant chains, service organizations, and other multi-location equipment owners. Our growing customer relationships are generating a strong funnel of potential products across beverage, cooking, refrigeration, ice, coffee, and related equipment categories.

We are seeking an experienced food service product leader to help convert those opportunities into a scalable, market-backed product portfolio.

Our growth strategy includes both organic efforts and growth through acquisition, and our culture is built upon these values:

The Customer is Always Served

Continuous Improvement

Invest in Our Employees

Uncompromising Ethics

Trust

Passion

• 100% Employer Paid Medical and Dental plans
• Vision insurance
• 100% Employer paid Life insurance
• Annual Bonus Program
• 401k Matching
• Paid holidays
• Paid Time Off

Reports to: Vice President of Products

Location: Kennesaw, Georgia area

Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 50/50 office/remote

Travel: Approximately 15%–25%, primarily for customer visits, industry events, supplier meetings, and field research

The Director of Food service Product Management will own the strategy, prioritization, and development roadmap for Freedom’s food service product portfolio.

The Director will evaluate opportunities generated through customer meetings, sales activity, service-market needs, and competitive research. The successful candidate will determine the broader addressable market, customer value proposition, product economics, technical requirements, and strategic fit of each opportunity before significant development resources are committed.

This individual will recommend whether Freedom should:

• Source and resell an existing product
• Repair or remanufacture an OEM component
• Engineer a proprietary replacement
• Develop a strategic supplier or service partnership
• Defer the opportunity
• Decline the project

The Director will lead products from initial opportunity assessment through market validation, development, launch, and lifecycle management.

This is a hands‑on, senior individual‑contributor role with significant cross‑functional leadership responsibility. The Director will initially lead through influence rather than through a large direct‑report organization and may help build additional product‑management resources as the business grows.

This is primarily an upstream product strategy and product‑development role rather than a communications‑focused product marketing position.

Product Strategy and Portfolio Management

Develop and maintain a multi-year food service product strategy aligned with Freedom’s growth objectives and core capabilities.

Identify the food service equipment categories and components where Freedom has the strongest opportunity to compete.

Create a prioritized product roadmap by equipment category, OEM, customer segment, and offering type.

Evaluate the strategic fit of new opportunities against Freedom’s technical capabilities, customer relationships, channel strategy, and available resources.

Market and Opportunity Evaluation

Establish a consistent opportunity‑screening and stage‑gate process for all food service product opportunities.

Determine whether an opportunity is specific to one customer or scalable across a broader market.

Estimate installed equipment populations by OEM, platform, customer type, and end market.

Conduct competitive analysis covering OEM products, aftermarket alternatives, repair providers, distributors, and other market participants.

Conduct total addressable market, serviceable addressable market, and serviceable obtainable market analyses.

Evaluate customer concentration, competitive offerings, replacement frequency, equipment age,…