Product Manager – Chicago, IL

About MISUMI Americas

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

As a Product Manager at MISUMI Americas, you will own a defined product area — whether a feature set, a workflow, a capability, or a segment of our platform — and be responsible for delivering strong, well-executed product work within it. You will gather and synthesize customer, stakeholder, and performance insights; write clear requirements; partner closely with Engineering and Design on delivery;

and track outcomes to drive continuous improvement.

This role is designed for someone who is serious about the craft of product management and is ready to build the depth of judgment and business understanding needed to take on broader ownership over time. You will be expected to deliver reliably, communicate clearly, build credibility with your cross‑functional partners, and show increasing independence as you develop fluency in the domain.

The best PMs in this role will grow into Senior PMs who own full product areas with strategic autonomy.

You will report to the VP, Product Management.

• Business acumen and domain awareness

• Develop a deep understanding of the customers, internal users, and business context relevant to your product area — including how your work connects to broader platform goals and company priorities

• Research and synthesize customer needs, stakeholder feedback, and operational realities to build a clear, grounded point of view on the problems your team should be solving

• Assess the needs of internal users across Operations, Sales, and other functions, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and remove friction in workflows that touch your area

• Stay current on how your product area is performing — tracking metrics, monitoring trends, and developing hypotheses about where the biggest opportunities for improvement lie

• Build familiarity with the competitive landscape and with how MISUMI Americas’ platform capabilities compare to alternatives available to our customers

• Roadmap contribution, work analysis, and scoping

• Contribute to roadmap development within your area with increasing independence, translating high-level goals into clearly scoped objectives, projects, and requirements

• Develop and maintain a framework for tracking input and output metrics that provide a quantitative view of the success and impact of your work

• Build business cases for prioritized initiatives, articulating the customer value, business rationale, and expected outcomes in a way that earns stakeholder confidence

• Scope and define requirements for roadmap items with clarity and specificity — ensuring Engineering and Design have what they need to build the right thing, efficiently

• Proactively identify trade‑offs and risks associated with scope and sequencing decisions, and work collaboratively with your team to develop pragmatic mitigation approaches

• Establish and communicate a well‑reasoned point of view on the problems your team should prioritize and why

• Cross‑functional collaboration

• Build strong working relationships with Engineering, Design, Operations, Sales, and other functions — earning trust through clear communication, good judgment, and consistent follow‑through

• Lead cross‑functional meetings within your area to align on scope, priorities, and requirements — ensuring that all relevant perspectives are heard and decisions are made with shared understanding

• Actively seek feedback from stakeholders and adjust plans accordingly, fostering a responsive and collaborative approach to product development

• Work with cross‑functional partners to develop and evaluate hypotheses about customer needs and solutions, bringing both rigor and creativity to discovery

• Communicate team…