Technical Product Manager

Title: Technical Product Manager Salary: 80K-100K base Location: New Bremen, OH (5 days onsite) Relocation: Full Relocation package offered including temporary housing, moving reimbursement, etc. Travel: up to 25% travel including overnights Position Summary We are seeking a technically strong, customer-focused professional to serve as the connection between our customers and product development team.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys interacting with people, asking questions, understanding operational challenges, and helping shape future products based on real-world customer needs. Unlike a traditional product management role, this position is not focused on marketing, branding, or promotional activities.

Instead, the successful candidate will leverage technical expertise and strong communication skills to engage customers, identify pain points, uncover opportunities for improvement, and partner with engineering teams to drive product evolution.

This role offers a unique opportunity for engineers, service professionals, applications engineers, sales engineers, and other technically focused candidates looking to expand their influence across product strategy and development.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the voice of the customer throughout the product development process.
• Meet directly with customers to understand operational challenges, application requirements, and unmet needs.
• Ask thoughtful questions and conduct discovery conversations to uncover root causes and opportunities for improvement.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Sales, Service, Operations, and Product Development teams to translate customer feedback into actionable product recommendations.
• Support product lifecycle activities from concept through commercialization and ongoing product improvements.
• Evaluate market trends, customer feedback, product performance, and competitive activity.
• Help develop business cases, product requirements, and future product roadmap recommendations.
• Participate in customer visits, facility tours, field evaluations, and industry events.
• Support product launches and drive adoption through technical expertise and customer engagement.
• Influence strategic product decisions through data, customer insights, and technical understanding.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related field.
• 2+ years of professional experience in engineering, technical sales, service, quality, manufacturing, product support, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand complex products and applications.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to engage confidently with customers, operators, engineers, purchasing managers, and business leaders.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Comfortable traveling to customer locations and industry events (20%+ travel).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Applications Engineering, Product Engineering, Service Engineering, Sales Engineering, Technical Sales, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, etc.
• Product management or product development exposure.
• OEM manufacturing experience.
• Material handling, forklift, industrial equipment, automation, or related industry experience.
• Experience gathering customer requirements and translating them into technical solutions.
• What Success Looks Like The ideal candidate is not necessarily someone who has been a Product Manager before.

We are looking for someone who

• Is technically credible and can speak comfortably with engineers and customers.
• Enjoys interacting with people and building relationships.
• Is naturally curious and highly inquisitive.
• Knows how to ask good follow-up questions.
• Can uncover customer pain points instead of simply taking orders.
• Thinks critically about why a problem exists and how products can evolve to solve it.
• Can bridge the gap between customers and engineering teams.
• Is comfortable representing customer needs in highly visible, cross-functional discussions.