Director of Product Management

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.

Impact In This Role

As the Director of Product Management, you will own the product strategy and integrated roadmap across multiple product domains at MISUMI Americas, including catalog platform and search, e-commerce platform experience, supply chain, customer experience, and business systems. You will champion a significant product organization, directing both senior individual contributors and people managers to translate high-level company strategy into actionable, impact-driven roadmaps that deliver measurable results.

Serving as the vital link between executive leadership, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams, you ensure we are solving the most critical problems with increasing speed and precision. You will operate as both a visionary leader and a hands-on navigator, establishing clear direction while actively resolving trade-offs and elevating the standard of excellence across our expanding product management organization.

You will report to the VP, Product Management.

What You’ll Be Doing

Domain strategy and portfolio leadership

• Own the product strategy and integrated roadmap across multiple domain areas, ensuring investments are focused on the highest-value opportunities for customers and the business
• Translate company strategy and commercial priorities into a coherent, well-sequenced domain roadmap with clear goals, milestones, and business rationale
• Build and maintain a strong domain-level perspective on the competitive landscape, customer needs, operational constraints, and technology capabilities
• Identify and resolve cross-domain dependencies and tradeoffs, driving alignment across product areas so that team roadmaps are mutually reinforcing rather than at odds
• Develop business cases for significant investments and secure alignment across the management team and senior stakeholders

Team leadership and PM development

• Lead, develop, and manage a substantial product management organization that includes both individual contributor PMs and PM managers — building a high-performing team with strong product judgment, communication discipline, and execution rigor
• Coach PMs on discovery, prioritization, scoping, stakeholder alignment, launch readiness, and outcome measurement — raising the quality bar across all dimensions of the craft
• Create a collaborative, accountable team culture where PMs are growing in independence, taking ownership, and delivering results with minimal escalation

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