Technical Product Manager

Join our globally growing team at ATS Industrial Automation where we create complex automation solutions at the highest level that sustainably impact lives around the world.

At ATS, a publicly traded global company with a proud 40-year history, we help drive the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. At ATS Industrial Automation, what we do matters - both to our customers and to their customers. With 1000 skilled employees around the world, we design, build and service mission-critical automated assembly and test solutions for mobility, nuclear and specialty automation.

Our customers are leaders in their industries and rely on us to deliver what we promise - on time and on budget. Combined with our broad product portfolio, financial strength and global presence, we provide our customers with the best automation solutions wherever and whenever they need them.

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay Rate: $112,000-$154,000
• Eligible for Annual Incentive Bonus
• Stock Purchase Plan
• 3 Weeks Vacation
• Health Care Benefits + $600 Health Care Spending Account
• Employee Engagement Events (Employee BBQ’s and lunches, weekly snack day, etc.) 
• Employee Development Programs

Role Overview

This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact digital transformation portfolio that connects engineering tools, data, and processes across ATS globally. The Technical Product Manager, Digital Transformation will help shape how engineering teams work, scale new digital capabilities, and deliver measurable improvements in speed, visibility, and collaboration across the business.

The Technical Product Manager, Digital Transformation is responsible for driving the roadmap, adoption, and continuous evolution of ATS Industrial Automation’s digital engineering platform and related Automation (A) digital transformation initiatives. Working closely with engineering stakeholders, the Digital Innovation team, and software development partners, this role translates business and engineering needs into clear technical requirements, prioritizes roadmap and backlog activities, and supports the successful rollout of digital capabilities that improve engineering efficiency, visibility, and collaboration.

This position acts as the primary bridge between mechanical, controls, electrical, systems engineering, software development, and business leadership to deliver measurable value through ATS’s digital transformation strategy.

Specific Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the digital transformation product roadmap, including prioritization of platform capabilities, engineering efficiency initiatives, and related innovation projects.

• Act as the key liaison between engineering groups and software development teams, translating mechanical, controls, electrical, and systems engineering needs into clear product requirements.

• Gather stakeholder and customer feedback through structured voice-of-customer activities, engineering engagement, and ongoing discovery to inform roadmap priorities.

• Lead roadmap planning, backlog prioritization, sprint alignment, and regular communication of requirements to the Digital Innovation and software development teams.

• Partner with engineering stakeholders to support adoption, change management, training readiness, and continuous improvement of digital tools and platform capabilities.

• Support innovation project governance, including ROI assessments, business cases, gate reviews, reporting, forecasting, risk tracking, and stakeholder updates.

• Identify technical, process, and resource gaps that may impact development or adoption and work with Innovation leadership to resolve roadblocks.

• Collaborate with Digital Innovation leadership on software architecture considerations, cloud-based platform direction, AI/ML…